NACS is pleased to announce that a site license for ArcView GIS has been acquired and that the software is now available for distribution on campus. GIS, or Geographic Information Systems, is software that combines geographic information with data about that area, making the data more approachable and useful. See http://www.gis.com/whatisgis/index.html for more information on GIS.

Thanks to a campus budget allocation, NACS will not need to collect usage fees from users during the first year of the license. The software is available for use on University-owned personal computers as well as laboratory computers.

The site license allows for unlimited campus distribution of ArcView 8.1, ArcView 3.2, and the Higher Education (data) Package, as well as unlimited access to on-line GIS training courses. Details of the major software items can be found at http://licenses.nacs.uci.edu/detail2.cfm?ProductID=75

On-line self-paced GIS training is available through the ESRI Virtual Campus. All Virtual Campus courses are available to UCI Faculty, Staff and Students. You can view the list of courses at http://campus.esri.com

Details of individual software products, and computer system requirements, can be viewed at the ESRI web site:http://www.esri.com/software/index.html