GartnerWeb provides clients with WWW access to all of Gartner Group's Research, Advisory, and Strategic Planning services research documents published during the previous 18 months.
The current contract allows access to eight of the Gartner Group services, six of their publications, and telephone consultations. The services included are:
The six publications or document types include:
Analyst consultation by phone, fax, or email is also included in the contract. If you need the latest industry trends on storage prices, or an expert opinion on where information technology is going, call the Gartner Group experts. Inquiry privileges extend to those topics covered in services retained. This consultation service is accessed through "Quick Path." A web page with telephone numbers, email addresses, and subject coverage is available from the Research Library's GartnerWeb link.
Audioconferences are another part of the contract. There is a schedule of audioconferences off of the Gartner Group home page. They extend to those topics covered in services retained. There is usally an half hour presentation then an half hour question and answer session.
There is a link from the Research Library's web site (http://lib-www.lanl.gov) under electronic databases. For first time registration, you will need the organization name and password. These are available from the Research Library's web site - simply click on the password link. You will only need the organization name and password once. During the registration process, you determine your personal user name and password. There is a QuickStart guide available on GartnerWeb.
Search and Browse
The search or browse default setting accesses ONLY the services the Laboratory has contracted. These services can be viewed by clicking on "My Services." You can change the setting to "All Services." If you try to access a document not covered by one of the services above you will get the message - "We're sorry, the document you have requested is published by a service you do not have access to view." You can contact Gartner for further options.
Each document is identified by the analyst, a service acronym, a document type acronym and date of publication.
You can browse by five different options: analyst, date, service, document type, or new research (which represent the most recent two weeks of research). Search criteria include analyst, title, document type, or date. You can use single words or phrases. Note that the results when searching or browsing by topic are ordered by service then chronologically.
Profiling
By creating a personal profile(s) of topics that are of interest to you, you will then receive automatic E-mail notification when new research is available that matches your profile. You can select your method of E-mail notification (Individual or Consolidated) and can also create a "Personal Home Page." If you select Individual E-mail notification, you will receive an individual E-mail for every document that matches your profile as those documents are published. The E-mail will include the title and URL address of the document. If you select a form of Consolidated E-mail notification (daily, weekly or monthly), you will receive one E-mail that includes a list of document titles and URL addresses that matches your profile on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
Your "Personal Home Page" will include a list of the document titles and links to the documents that match your profile criteria. If you create a "Personal Home Page," this will be the first page at which you arrive when you visit GartnerWeb.
The Research Library is acting as the administrative contact and CIC-2, Information Architecture, CIC-5, CIC-11, Enterprise Information Project, and CIC-7 are funding the contract for the Lab.
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There are several ways to approach this:
In the WWW version of the online catalog subject headings appear on the Full Display, and clicking on a heading will bring up the subject index. In the telnet version, subject headings appear on the Detailed Display; using Extend Search is an easy way to follow a heading to the subject index.
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The Realtime links feature breaking news and include such things as the AP-Update Newsday, the Yahoo-Reuters Summary, and CNN. The weather links include storm warnings, earthquakes and tides.
The Daily links are a collection of general and specialized newspapers from around the world. There are also science and technology links such as the Astronomy Picture of the Day, Science Daily, and Interactive Age.
Weekly and Monthly links include Science, Business Week, Forbes and Fortune, PCWeek, MacWeek and ComputerWorld. Note that Web versions of newspapers and journals usually are not complete and full versions of the printed copies; many articles will not be online. For additional information or assistance, contact the Research Library, 7-5809.
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June
3 Finding Environmental Information on the WWW 1pm
3 New Employee Orientation/Research Library Overview 1pm
(No sign-up required - 45 minutes)
4 MELVYL (U of CA Specialized Databases) 11am
5 Federal Regulations on the Internet 1pm
10 Grant and Funding Information on the WWW 1pm
11 Finding Addresses and Phone Numbers on the WWW 1pm
12 Finding Business Information on the WWW 1pm
12 InfoSurfing: Basic Web Searching Strategies 2pm
17 SciSearch at LANL -- At Your Desktop! 1pm
19 GeoRef -- Geological Information on CD-ROM 1pm
24 CASSI on CD 12pm
26 SciSearch Alerting Service 1pm
26 InfoSurfing: Basic Web Searching Strategies 2pm
July
1 Search Engines, Advanced Web Searching 1pm
8 BIOSIS Database via the WWW 1pm
10 Finding Secret Information (Q-Clearance Required) 1pm
(Held in the Research Library's Report Collection)
15 Research Library Catalog via the WWW! 1pm
17 Electronic Journals -- At Your Desktop! 1pm
Classes are free, but you must pre-register by calling the Library Service
Desk at 7-5809 or sending e-mail to library@lanl.gov
Special classes and orientations can also be arranged at your site.
Please send comments about this service to library@lanl.gov.
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In addition to our regularly scheduled classes and orientations, library tours will be held every Wednesday at 4pm and Thursday at 1:15pm starting May 1st. The 30-minute tours will include a review of library policies, services and products, as well as a tour of the library facility. Please contact us to pre-register by calling the Library Services Desk at 667-5809 or sending email to library@lanl.gov.
These days and times will be in effect throughout the summer months. The tour starts at the Library Services Desk on the main level of the Research Library in the Oppenheimer Study Center.
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To receive an electronic subscription to the Research Library Newsletter, sent the first of each month to your e-mail address, do the following:
subscribe lib-news end
The name and e-mail address of the Library member who contributed an article appears at the end of the article. If you have comments or further questions, please contact that person. If you have general questions or comments about the Newsletter itself, please contact the Newsletter Coordinator, Lou Pray
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