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ArcGIS - fully integrated suite of enterprise GIS software. The ArcGIS system allows GIS applications to be deployed on desktops, servers, mobile devices, on the web and in the cloud. Developer and scripting tools allow users to customise the system to deliver specific teaching or research needs. No restrictions on home use.
When ordering, please fill in BOTH the Esri UK and the Chest Online Order Forms (see the Products and Pricing tab).
Agreement start: 1 August 2023
Agreement end: 31 July 2026
Subsequent invoice date: 1 May
Institutions may participate in the Agreement at any time during its life, but shall be bound by its Terms and Conditions, including payments, until 31 July 2026.
Site and Department Licences
This Agreement is open to Institutions of Higher and Further Education and Research Councils in the United Kingdom, to Universities and Colleges of Further Education in the Republic of Ireland, and to Associated Sites.
Other UK organisations aligned with Chest's charitable objectives of supporting education, research bodies and the public sector may ask to participate in the Agreement. Chest will liaise with the Supplier about any such requests.
Chest and Esri UK have had a Chest Agreement in place since 1992, with this Agreement taking us through 30 years. Read more about it here:
This new Chest Agreement runs from 1 August 2023 until 31 July 2026.
Owner: Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc, a California corporation with a place of business at 380 New York Street, Redlands, California, 92373-8100 USA.
Supplier: Esri (UK) Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 1288342), whose registered office is Millennium House, 65 Walton Street, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 7QG.
Higher and Further Education institutions in the UK and Ireland can purchase ArcGIS software through the Esri Chest Agreement. The Agreement offers two different options for institutions to choose from:
An institution can choose either a Site Licence or one Department Licence.
The Esri Education Products and Deployment Schedule lists the different products and product quantities licensed under both the Site and Department Licences. In particular:
For complete product descriptions, please visit the Esri UK website.
Since 1 August 2024:
For a history of the changes which took place at the start of August 2024, please see the Modern GIS for Higher Education StoryMap and the Changes to ArcGIS Licensing in Higher Education StoryMap. Please also see the 'Resources for GIS Administrators' section on the Useful Resources tab.
UK Data Loader and Sweet for ArcGIS Phase 1 Habitat Survey are Esri UK products and their use is covered by the Esri UK Software Licence Agreement.
For a trial copy of the software, please contact highered@esriuk.com.
Online documentation for all of Esri's software products can be found on the Esri Documentation website.
Copying extracts from online documentation for inclusion in internal, non-commercial training material is permitted provided a copyright attribution acknowledgement statement appears in the training material as follows: "Copyright © Esri. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission."
Use of graphical user interfaces and screen captures is for educational and research publications only, and is not permitted for external training or commercial purposes.
For screen capture of Esri Products, include the following attribution statement where the graphical user interfaces and screen captures appear: "Esri software graphical user interfaces are the intellectual property of Esri and are reproduced herein by permission. All rights reserved."
For screen capture of Esri UK Products (UK Data Loader and Sweet for ArcGIS Phase 1 Habitat Survey), include the following attribution statement where the graphical user interfaces and screen captures appear: "Copyright [insert the actual copyright date(s) from the source materials] Esri UK Ltd and its third-party licensors. All rights reserved."
There are the following training resources available:
Making copies of training materials for teaching purposes is permitted.
Chest provide non-technical support only – if you want to know your licence dates, or how much a licence costs, or what your last licence was we can help.
For anything more technical, Esri UK will provide advice and support to those users assigned Authorised Caller status within your My Esri portal. Support calls can be raised by:
Please see the Raising Support Calls StoryMap and the Update your Support Contacts StoryMap for more information, including how to update your Authorised Caller list within My Esri.
Support is provided in accordance with the Esri UK Standard Support Policy.
There are also a number of useful online resources:
Supplier home page: https://www.esriuk.com
See also the Lecture with GIS website.
Esri Inc Products
Esri will authorise Licensed Institutions to download the Esri Software licensed under this Agreement from their My Esri portal (note that you will need to be an Admin for your organisation on My Esri to access these downloads). Updates or new versions of the Esri Software will be made available in the same manner.
Note that information about Patches and Service Packs for existing versions can be found at the Esri Support Patches and Updates webpage.
Esri UK Products
Please note that, under the Esri Chest Agreement, Esri UK products are not covered by the Esri Education Institution Agreement which covers Esri Inc products only. For Esri UK products, the Esri UK Software Licence Agreement applies. Please see the Terms and Conditions tab for more detail about these.
Supported Software Versions and Platforms
Details regarding version numbers and supported platforms vary depending on product(s). Full information on products can be accessed from the Esri website.
You can also view the ArcGIS Pro Life Cycle and the ArcGIS Online Life Cycle webpages.
Click on the images below to find out more about Esri UK's Lecture with GIS website and the training options available from Esri Academy:
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There is also a lot of information and use cases documented in the ArcGIS Blog.
The Manage ArcGIS webpages contain useful information on how to manage ArcGIS licences and users across your campus and beyond. You will find lots of useful resources to help you enable GIS users, vary what users can do, keep content alive for external examination and much more.
There is also a useful ArcGIS Blog post on Time-saving tips for managing members in ArcGIS Online.
Click on the images below for specific information on migrating from ArcMap Advanced to ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online:
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Since December 2023, Esri have run a series of webinars to help institutions prepare for the licensing changes which took place at the start of August 2024. Links to the webinar recordings and slide decks are shown below.
Click on the image below to watch the recording:
The associated slide deck can be found by clicking here.
Click on the image below to watch the recording:
Related resources:
For more information on setting up SSO at your institution, or to request an EU Hosted ArcGIS Online Organisation, please contact highered@esriuk.com.
Click on the image below to watch the recording:
The associated slide deck can be found by clicking here.
Click on the image below to watch the recording of the 2024/25 academic year kick off webinar (held on 29 October 2024) which covered:
View 'Managing ArcGIS at your Uni in a Disrupted World', along with other webinars related to ArcGIS in education, on Esri UK's Education Webinars website.
Licensor: Esri (UK) Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 1288342), whose registered office is Millennium House, 65 Walton Street, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 7QG.
The Esri UK Online Order, together with the Licence Terms and Conditions, and any exceptions listed below, create a legally binding contract between your institution, organisation or company and the Licensor. Therefore please read the terms and conditions carefully and only submit an Esri UK Online Order if its terms and conditions are acceptable to your institution, organisation or company and you have the authority to make the financial commitment shown.
The Department and Site Licences are subject to the terms and conditions of the Esri Education Institution Agreement (G604) (note that, apart from Appendix A which lists the software licensed, this remains unchanged from 2020).
By completing the Esri UK Online Order Form you confirm your acceptance that the Terms and Conditions will be adhered to. Please ensure that you read all the Licence Terms and Conditions before ordering:
Commitment Period
Once ordered, institutions are committed until 31 July 2026.
On receipt of a completed Esri UK Online Order sites will be invoiced for the Agreement year in which the licence is signed.
A licence year runs from 1 August to the following 31 July.
For each subsequent year, sites will be invoiced three months in advance of the anniversary date of the Agreement on 1 May to cover the period from 1 August to 31 July.
There is monthly pro-rata charging for sites which become licensed partway through a licence year.
Chest is an Enterprise of Jisc. All Purchase orders must be made out to Jisc Services Ltd, 4 Portwall Lane, Bristol, BS1 6NB to cover all charges plus VAT (i.e. both the Software fee and the Chest fee).
All terms contained in a PO are expressly rejected and do not form part of the Licence or vary the Licence terms in any way.
Payments are due within thirty days of invoice date; recipients of late payments are entitled to interest in accordance with UK statutory provisions.
At the end of the period of Agreement (31 July 2026), unless a new Agreement is negotiated between Jisc Services Limited and Esri UK, sites will either be required to delete the software from their systems and return media to Esri UK or to seek to license the software directly from Esri UK.
Unless otherwise stated, the following apply to both Department and Site Licence options:
Administration and Management of the Business of the Institution
Use of the software is allowed for administration and management of the business of the Institution under the Site Licence options only, as per the terms and conditions of the agreement. See the Esri Education Products and Deployment Schedule for more information.
Home Use
Home Use is permitted (use by staff and students on personal devices is covered).
Virtualisation Use
Virtualisation Use is permitted - see section 3.1.d of the Esri Education Institution Agreement (G604). If software is virtualised on a 3rd party's infrastructure, you must notify Esri UK via e-mail.
Overseas Use
Overseas Use is permitted (subject to the Esri Legal Export Compliance restrictions on countries embargoed by the US government).
Commercial Use Prohibited
The commercial exploitation (including exploitation by commercial training) of the software is prohibited. Licences for Commercial use can be purchased directly from Esri UK.
Paid for Research Prohibited
Under the Chest Agreement, sites are not allowed to use the software for paid-for research.
For example, paid-for research includes when a student/researcher is sponsored by a company to complete research and the company then owns the research for use in their commercial business. This is not allowed. If, however, a student/researcher is sponsored by a company to complete their PhD/project but the student/researcher's institution owns the outcome then this is allowed.
As home-use rights are already included as standard, personal licences are not required under this Agreement.
See the Data Protection section on Esri UK's Privacy webpages.
When ordering, please fill in BOTH the Esri UK and the Chest Online Order Forms (see below).
Institutions are committed until 31 July 2026. Please see the tables at the bottom of this page which show the pricing per year in UK Pounds (£s). All prices exclude VAT which shall apply at the appropriate rate.
Site Licence pricing is based on an institution's Esri Licence Band (Large, Medium or Small). In the UK, a Higher Education institution's Esri Licence Band is based on the size of its Jisc Band:
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Esri Licence Band |
Jisc Band |
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Large |
1 / 2 |
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Medium |
3 / 4 / 5A / 5B |
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Small |
6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 |
Higher Education institutions in the Republic of Ireland, who do not have a Jisc Band allocated, have been placed in similar bands based on their full-time equivalent student numbers. See Ireland Esri Licence Bands for a list of all Irish HE institutions.
All UK and Republic of Ireland Further Education institutions and museums are classified as a Small Esri Licence Band.
For other institutions that do not have a Jisc band or cross-mappable equivalent, Esri UK and Jisc will determine the Esri Licence Band on a case-by-case basis.
If in doubt about the appropriate Esri Licence Band for your institution, please get in touch.
Payment terms are shown on the Terms and Conditions Tab.
If you have any questions, please contact Chest Help.
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