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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 179

R7E_17. Where do you prefer to get research-related News?
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 News for research 207 116* 90* 207 0** 91* 62* 54* 26** 24** 77* 41* 9** 24** 5** 0* 147 60*
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  118 62 57 118 0 56 33 29 20 10 47 17 6 15 3 0 84 35
web sites, web searches, etc.) 57.2 52.9 62.8 57.2 0 62.2 53.8 52.8 76.7 41.7 61 40.5 70 61.5 67.9 0 56.9 58
Borrow from or use in campus library 49 22 27 49 0 22 18 9 3 6 21 16 1 2 1 0 34 15
23.7 19.3 29.4 23.7 0 24.5 29.2 16.2 10 25 26.8 37.8 16.7 7.7 14.3 0 23.1 25.2
Personal holdings 10 9 1 10 0 2 2 6 1 3 2 1 0 3 0 0 9 1
4.8 7.5 1.4 4.8 0 2 3.9 10.6 3.3 12.5 2.4 2.7 3.3 11.5 0 0 6.1 1.7
Printed material 4 4 0 4 0 2 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 4 0
1.9 3.4 0 1.9 0 2.1 1.8 1.7 0 0 2.4 2.7 0 3.8 0 0 2.7 0
Purchase from physical book store 3 3 0 3 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 0
1.6 2.8 0 1.6 0 1.2 1.6 2.1 0 4.2 0 5.4 0 0 0 0 2.2 0
Colleague 3 3 0 3 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 1
1.5 2.6 0 1.5 0 1.2 1.5 1.8 0 4.2 0 2.7 0 3.8 0 0 1.3 1.9
Borrow from or use in other libraries 3 1 2 3 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 0
1.5 1 2.1 1.5 0 2.1 1.8 0 0 0 2.4 2.7 0 0 0 0 2 0
Order from on demand document delivery service 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1
1 1.8 0 1 0 0 0 3.9 0 4.2 0 2.7 0 0 0 0 0.8 1.7
Meetings/conference 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
0.9 1.6 0 0.9 0 0 0 3.5 0 0 2.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.1
Office 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.4 0.8 0 0.4 0 0 0 1.6 3.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.5
Source 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.1 0.1 0 0.1 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.6 0 0.1 0
Ask library to purchase 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
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
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
E-journals 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
Faculty 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
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions library to  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
borrow the source for you 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Purchase from online bookstore 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 6 3 3 6 0 3 2 1 1 2 0 0 1 2 1 0 4 2
3 2.6 3.4 3 0 3.5 3.3 1.6 3.3 8.3 0 0 10 7.7 10.7 0 2.7 3.5
DK/Refused 5 4 1 5 0 1 2 2 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 3 2
2.4 3.5 1 2.4 0 1 3 4.1 3.3 0 2.4 2.7 0 3.8 3.6 0 2 3.4

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