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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 7R [part 2]: Tables 119-180. 
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 122

R7D_9. When you are doing research, where do you go to get Online databases, data sets or data sources?
Base Faculty Member Graduate Student Faculty / Graduate Student Under Graduate Student Public Private Liberal Arts Biological Sciences Physical Sciences Social Sciences Arts and 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 Online databases, data sets or data sources for research 324 162 162 324 0** 143 131 50* 49* 63* 98* 62* 15* 33* 5** 0* 200 124*
Access online (includes Internet, web sites, web sites,  249 137 112 249 0 101 104 43 41 58 62 43 12 29 4 0 162 86
web searches, etc.) 76.8 84.8 68.9 76.8 0 70.8 79.6 87.1 83.9 92.1 63.5 69.1 80.4 88.6 85.7 0 81.2 69.7
B E J JKL JK Q
Borrow from or use in campus library 102 44 58 102 0 56 32 15 15 17 32 21 7 9 1 0 62 41
31.6 27.4 35.8 31.6 0 39.1 24.2 29.3 30.4 27 32.7 34.5 45.1 28.6 21.4 0 30.8 32.8
F I
Borrow from or use in other libraries 16 7 9 16 0 6 8 2 2 1 8 4 0 1 0 0 7 9
4.9 4.4 5.4 4.9 0 4.1 6.3 3.5 3.6 1.6 7.7 7.3 0 2.9 3.6 0 3.5 7.2
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions library to  14 8 7 14 0 8 5 2 4 2 6 2 0 1 0 0 8 6
borrow the source for you 4.4 4.7 4.2 4.4 0 5.3 3.8 3.5 7.1 3.2 5.8 3.6 0 2.9 0 0 4.2 4.8
Office 10 10 0 10 0 0 8 2 1 0 4 6 0 0 0 0 9 1
3.2 6.3 0 3.2 0 0 6.1 4.5 1.8 0 3.8 9.1 0 0 0 0 4.6 0.9
B E E I
Purchase from online bookstore 6 3 3 6 0 3 3 0 1 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 3 3
1.8 1.7 1.9 1.8 0 2.1 2.1 0 1.8 0 3.8 1.8 0 0 0 0 1.5 2.2
Personal holdings 5 3 2 5 0 2 2 1 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 3 2
1.5 1.7 1.3 1.5 0 1.4 1.3 1.9 3.6 0 1.9 0 0 2.9 3.6 0 1.4 1.5
Purchase from physical book store 5 1 4 5 0 4 1 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
1.4 0.5 2.2 1.4 0 2.5 0.7 0 5.4 0 1.9 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 2.2
Faculty 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
0.6 0 1.2 0.6 0 1.3 0 0 0 0 1.9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.5
Colleague 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
0.3 0.6 0 0.3 0 0.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.9 0 0 0.5 0
Order from on demand document delivery service 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
0.3 0.6 0 0.3 0 0.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.9 0 0 0 0.8
Ask library to purchase source 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.3 0 0.5 0.3 0 0.6 0 0 1.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.4 0
E-journals 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.3 0.5 0 0.3 0 0 0 1.8 1.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.4 0
Printed material 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.3 0 0.5 0.3 0 0.6 0 0 1.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.7
Access book/journal/journal article elsewhere online 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Access from course website 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Meetings/conference 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other 10 4 6 10 0 5 4 1 0 0 6 2 1 1 1 0 6 4
3.1 2.6 3.5 3.1 0 3.3 3.1 2.2 0 0 5.8 3.6 3.9 2.9 10.7 0 3.1 3.1
HI
DK/Refused 3 1 2 3 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 2
0.9 0.6 1.2 0.9 0 0 2.2 0 1.8 0 0 1.8 0 2.9 0 0 0.6 1.5

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