A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computerized database management system for accumulating, storage, retrieval, analysis, and display spatial data. In general, GIS contains two broad categories of information, geo-referenced spatial data and attribute data. Geo-referenced spatial data define objects that have an orientation and relationship in two or three-dimensional space, while attr…
It is assumed that most of the King Faisal University (KFU) faculty members as well as graduate students are aware of the availability of the web based research databases in the university library but few of them are using it despite its contribution to the enrichment of the scientific research, the increase of the publication rate and quality of papers published by KFU researchers. Currently, …