As a member campus in the CSU GIS Specialty Center, SFSU participates in license agreements with Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), Inc., for GIS. In principle, the SFSU faculty and staff has free access to the listed software products, assume the uses of the software are for non-for-profit uses including: teaching, research and university administration. The license will not, however, cover a project that is for profit, private gain, or other commercial use. Users may need to purchase hardware keys for some software packages. Please contact Debra Dwyer, the SFSU Site License Administrator, or Barry Nickel, Associate Director of the IGISc, on how to obtain software under this agreement. The ESRI software components available are as follows:

Platform: Windows NT/2000 Professional/2000 Advanced Server/XP Home or Professional/2003 Server

• ArcINFO Workstation 9.x
• ArcGIS Desktop 9.x (ArcView, ArcEditor or ArcGIS/ArcINFO concurrent)
• ArcGIS Desktop 9.x (ArcView or ArcEditor stand-alone)
• ArcGIS 9.x extensions (concurrent and stand-alone):
• ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst
• ArcGIS 3D Analyst
• ArcGIS Spatial Analyst
• ArcGIS Network Analyst
• ArcScan
• ArcPress for ArcGIS
• ArcGIS StreetMap USA extension
• ArcGIS Survey Analyst
• ArcGIS Publisher
• ArcGIS Military Analyst
• ArcReader
• Maplex
• ArcGIS Tracking Analyst
• ArcSchematics
• ArcSDE 9.x
• ArcIMS 9.x
• ArcPad 6.x and ArcPad Application Developer 6.x
• BusinessMap Pro 3.0
• NetEngine 1.2
• MapObjects 2.1
• MapObjects Java Standard Edition
• MapObjects Internet Map Server
• ArcView 3.3
• ArcView 3.3 extensions:
• 3D Analyst 1.0
• Spatial Analyst 2.0a
• Network Analyst 1.0b
• ArcPress 2.0
• StreetMap 1.1
• Image Analysis (not currently available from ESRI)
• Tracking Analyst 1.0

Some software is also available for other operating systems/platforms. A complete and detailed list of all products available under the CSU license agreement with Environmental System Research Institute (ESRI), Inc., for GIS can be found at the CSU GIS Specialty Center.

A special one-year license of ArcView is currently available to full-time and part-time students for $100 and are limited to academic or research use only; commercial use is prohibited. Available for either ArcView 9.0, 8.3 or ArcView 3.3, this license is designed for students who need access to GIS software to complete course assignments or for research projects. The ArcView 9.0, 8.3 version also includes the ArcGIS Spatial Analyst, ArcGIS 3D Analyst, and ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst extensions. The ArcView 3.3 version does not include any extensions.

Student Individual Licenses that do not carry a time limit are available to students for academic or research use for $250. These licenses are held by an individual person and you have to pay extra for each extension. Purchases are limited to one copy of any given software product/release per individual.

Student ordering of software is NOT handled by IGISc staff or the Site License Administrator. SFSU students should order the new products by calling the ESRI Telebusiness Department at 800-447-9778 and selecting the option of pre-sales questions.