The Jean & Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt Information Technology Services (ITS), and Management Information Systems (MIS) partnered to offer the Vanderbilt Community free access to Gartner, an online database providing research and analysis about the global information technology industry.

The Gartner database includes executive summaries, perspectives/ research briefs, research notes, special reports on IT-related issues. It also spotlights key technologies, products, trends, market opportunities, industry developments, vendors, products and services.

Students, faculty, and IT support staff can access the Gartner database with their Vanderbilt information.

Gartner notes on its website that it is “the world’s most prolific source of authoritative IT data, analysis and opinion.” Gartner publishes tens of thousands of pages of original research yearly. More than 1,200 research analysts and consultants contributed to the information available at gart