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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 23: Tables 605-606
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 606
Q23b. Of all the information that you use on the Internet, what one source do you
      consider to be the most reliable and credible?  Why?
Base Faculty Member Graduate Student Faculty / Graduate Student Under Graduate Student Public Private Liberal Arts Biological Sciences Physical Sciences Social Sciences Arts & Humanities Engineering Business Law Undecided Major Male Female
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q
Base - Use the Internet 1046 302 333 635 410 433 276 336 150 175 295 207 44 131 10* 33* 599 447
Library Website 102 15 47 63 40 53 25 24 11 13 28 27 6 11 0 6 52 51
9.8 5 14.2 9.8 9.7 12.2 9.1 7.1 7 7.4 9.6 13 13.9 8.5 3.3 18.2 8.6 11.3
A A G HIN
Institution Website 51 5 17 22 29 24 14 14 4 6 17 11 4 7 0 2 23 28
4.8 1.6 5 3.4 7 5.4 4.9 4 2.3 3.4 5.7 5.4 9.3 5 3.3 6.1 3.8 6.2
A AC HI
LexisNexis 31 6 10 17 15 4 13 14 1 0 15 6 1 7 3 0 16 15
3 2.1 3.1 2.6 3.5 1 4.8 4.1 0.6 0 5.1 2.7 1.3 5 25 0 2.7 3.4
E E HI I I HI HIJKLM
NY Times 21 7 1 8 13 3 5 13 0 4 8 8 0 2 0 0 16 6
2 2.4 0.3 1.3 3.2 0.7 1.8 3.9 0 2.3 2.5 3.8 0 1.4 1.7 0 2.6 1.3
B B E HL H
CNN 20 3 1 4 16 7 4 8 0 4 4 4 1 6 0 1 14 5
1.9 1 0.3 0.6 3.8 1.6 1.5 2.5 0 2.3 1.3 2.2 1.3 4.3 1.7 3 2.4 1.2
ABC H H H
Yahoo 16 0 0 0 16 8 3 5 3 0 9 0 0 3 0 1 10 6
1.5 0 0.1 0 3.9 1.9 1.1 1.4 1.8 0 3.2 0 0 2.1 1.7 3 1.7 1.3
ABC IK IK IK
Psychinfo 15 4 4 8 8 8 4 4 0 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 8 8
1.4 1.2 1.1 1.2 1.8 1.7 1.4 1.1 0 0 5.1 0 0 0 0 0 1.3 1.7
HIKLM
Medline 14 4 8 11 3 4 8 3 13 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 7 7
1.3 1.2 2.4 1.8 0.6 0.8 2.9 0.8 8.8 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1.2 1.5
IJKLMN IJKM
Web of Science 13 5 6 10 3 7 1 6 4 3 4 1 1 0 0 0 4 10
1.3 1.5 1.7 1.6 0.7 1.6 0.2 1.7 2.9 1.7 1.3 0.5 2.6 0 0 0 0.6 2.2
M KM P
American Chemical Society 12 5 6 11 1 2 5 5 1 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 3
1.2 1.6 1.9 1.8 0.2 0.5 1.9 1.5 0.6 6.3 0 0 0.7 0 0 0 1.5 0.7
D D HJKLM J
Pubmed 12 3 9 12 0 6 5 1 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 6
1.1 0.9 2.8 1.9 0 1.3 2 0.3 7 0.6 0 0 0.7 0 0 0 0.9 1.4
D D IJKLM J
Cenus 12 5 5 10 2 5 3 4 1 0 8 2 0 1 0 0 10 1
1.1 1.6 1.5 1.5 0.5 1.1 1.1 1.1 0.6 0 2.5 1.1 0 0.7 0 0 1.7 0.3
Q
Google 11 1 3 4 6 5 1 4 0 4 4 1 1 1 0 0 7 4
1 0.4 1 0.7 1.5 1.3 0.4 1.2 0 2.3 1.3 0.5 2 0.7 0 0 1.1 0.9
H
Wall Street Journal 10 1 2 3 7 1 3 6 0 1 2 1 0 6 0 0 8 2
0.9 0.3 0.6 0.4 1.7 0.2 1 1.7 0 0.6 0.6 0.5 0 4.3 0 0 1.3 0.5
E HIJKL
Government Websites (unspecified) 9 4 3 7 2 0 7 2 2 2 0 3 0 2 0 0 7 3
0.9 1.4 0.9 1.1 0.5 0 2.6 0.6 1.2 1.1 0 1.6 0.7 1.4 0 0 1.1 0.6
E J
Search Engines (general) 8 0 0 0 8 4 0 4 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 3 4 4
0.8 0 0 0 2 0.9 0 1.2 0 0 1.3 0.5 0.7 0 0 9.1 0.7 0.9
ABC
Westlaw 6 1 5 5 1 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 2 4
0.6 0.2 1.4 0.8 0.2 0.8 0.9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.4 40 0 0.4 0.8
HIJKLM
E-Journals 5 3 0 3 2 2 2 1 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4
0.5 0.9 0.1 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.7 0.3 1.2 1.1 0 0 0.7 0.7 0 0 0.2 0.8
J
IEEE 5 2 3 5 0 2 2 1 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 2
0.5 0.7 0.8 0.8 0 0.5 0.6 0.3 0 1.1 0 0 6.6 0 0 0 0.5 0.4
HIJKM
Databases (unspecified) 5 2 3 5 0 2 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 4 1
0.5 0.6 0.9 0.8 0 0.5 0.3 0.5 1.2 0 0.6 0 0.7 0.7 0 0 0.6 0.3
Findlaw 4 2 0 2 1 0 2 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 1
0.4 0.7 0.1 0.3 0.4 0 0.9 0.4 0 0 0.6 0.5 0 0 6.7 0 0.4 0.3
HIJKLM
CDC 4 2 1 3 1 1 2 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
0.3 0.6 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.6 0.3 2.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.1 0.6
IJK
Proquest 3 0 3 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0
0.3 0 0.9 0.5 0 0.1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.7 2.1 0 0 0.5 0
J IJK
None 87 36 23 59 28 43 23 21 14 16 17 27 4 5 1 4 56 31
8.3 12 6.8 9.2 6.9 9.8 8.3 6.4 9.4 9.1 5.7 13 8.6 3.5 6.7 12.1 9.4 6.8
BD M M JM M
All others 470 152 156 308 162 198 121 151 70 94 130 83 18 62 1 12 280 190
45 50.3 46.8 48.5 39.6 45.7 43.9 45 46.8 53.7 43.9 40 41.7 47.5 8.3 36.4 46.8 42.5
D D N KLN N N N N
Don't Know/ Refused 101 36 17 53 48 41 17 42 10 12 28 30 3 14 0 4 46 55
9.6 11.9 5.2 8.4 11.6 9.5 6.2 12.6 6.4 6.9 9.6 14.6 6 10.6 1.7 12.1 7.7 12.2
B B F HILN P

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