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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 7S: Tables 318-436. 
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 364

S7D_7. When you are doing your coursework, where do you go to get Print abstracts and indexes?
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 Print abstracts and indexes for coursework 423 0** 214 214 209 200 100* 123* 52* 47* 177* 85* 13* 35* 6* 7* 197 226
Borrow from or use in campus library 307 0 160 160 147 140 76 90 40 33 124 66 9 24 5 6 150 157
72.6 0 74.6 74.6 70.5 70 76.8 73.5 76.3 70.2 70.2 77.6 67.4 68.4 78.4 85.7 76.2 69.4
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  187 0 90 90 98 75 49 64 20 21 83 32 6 18 3 4 89 99
web sites, web searches, etc.) 44.3 0 41.8 41.8 46.9 37.3 48.9 52.1 39 44.7 46.8 38.2 45.7 50 51.4 57.1 45.1 43.7
E
Faculty 13 0 9 9 4 5 4 4 2 4 4 1 1 0 0 1 7 6
3 0 4 4 2 2.5 3.6 3.3 3.4 8.5 2.1 1.3 6.5 0 2.7 14.3 3.4 2.7
K M
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions 12 0 5 5 7 7 2 2 1 1 4 3 0 2 1 0 3 8
 library to borrow the source for you 2.8 0 2.1 2.1 3.4 3.5 2.4 1.8 1.7 2.1 2.1 3.9 2.2 5.3 8.1 0 1.7 3.7
HJ
Borrow from or use in other libraries 12 0 4 4 8 4 2 5 1 3 4 3 0 0 0 0 7 5
2.8 0 1.9 1.9 3.6 2 2.2 4.4 1.7 6.4 2.1 3.9 2.2 0 5.4 0 3.3 2.2
M
Purchase from online bookstore 4 0 2 2 2 4 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 3
0.9 0 1 1 0.9 2 0 0 0 2.1 1.1 1.3 0 0 0 0 0.5 1.3
Purchase from physical book store 4 0 0 0 4 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 3
0.9 0 0 0 1.8 0.9 0.9 0.8 0 0 1.1 0 0 5.3 0 0 0.5 1.2
K
Ask library to purchase source 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1
0.5 0 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 0 0.9 0 0 0 2.6 0 0 0 0 0.6 0.5
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
Order from on demand document delivery service 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
Home 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
Colleagues 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
In class 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
Dorm room 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
Personal holdings 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 0 1 1 5 2 1 3 2 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 2 4
1.5 0 0.5 0.5 2.4 1.1 1 2.4 3.4 2.1 0 2.6 0 0 2.7 14.3 1.1 1.8
J J
DK/Refused 2 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1
0.5 0 0.5 0.5 0.4 1 0 0 1.7 0 0 1.3 0 0 0 0 0.6 0.4

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