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The Custom Search Engine (CSE) currently includes over 120 sites that focus on IT research, white papers, presentations, trends, and breaking news. The CSE includes both free and fee based sites. Most of this information is available at no charge, but logging in is often required at some of the sites to retrieve specific documents.

Finding appropriate information is possible by conducting a general search through a variety of search engines, but it is more efficient to use the IT Research CSE.

The IT Research CSE includes all major fee based research sites, as well as other significant sources of information for IT research. All major IT news sites are included in the CSE.

Searches in the CSE may be refined by selecting any of the following refinement areas which provide focused searching based upon criteria established for the CSE. Refinements for any user specified search topic include:

  • Architecture—References to architecture documents and reports.
  • Comparisons—Information comparing products and services.
  • Innovation—References to pages that discuss innovation for specified areas.
  • Multimedia—References to Podcasts, Webcasts, and similar materials.
  • Presentations—Access to PowerPoint and other related presentations.
  • Reports—Access to PDFs and word processing document report formats.
  • Standards—References to available standards information.
  • Trends—Articles and other types of reports that look at current trends.

The IT Research CSE searches the Web first for the sites specified and secondarily for all other Web resources. Some sites, such as Forrester, InfoTech, and Aberdeen, are prioritized so relevant reports from these vendors appear earlier within the search results. To see reports only from a specific provider, such as Forrester, add the name of the provider to the search terms.

Agencies are welcome to submit suggestions for other sites to be included in the CSE list. Suggestions for additional pre-defined refinements are also welcome. Please submit requests to Robert Woolley.