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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 378

S7D_9. When you are doing your coursework, 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  565 0** 236 236 329 254 142 169 87* 61* 175* 109* 21* 68* 9* 35* 262 303
for coursework
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  416 0 177 177 239 168 112 137 62 46 126 77 16 53 8 28 190 227
web sites, web searches, etc.) 73.7 0 75.3 75.3 72.5 66.1 78.9 80.6 71.7 75.4 72 71.1 74 78.1 83.6 80 72.3 74.9
E E
Borrow from or use in campus library 228 0 87 87 141 108 54 67 33 21 75 53 9 20 3 14 112 116
40.4 0 37 37 42.9 42.5 38 39.4 38.4 34.4 43 48.5 42.5 30.1 29.1 40 42.8 38.4
MN
Faculty 9 0 4 4 5 6 1 2 1 1 4 1 1 1 0 1 4 5
1.6 0 1.7 1.7 1.6 2.5 0.6 1.3 1 1.6 2.2 1 2.7 1.4 0 2.9 1.5 1.8
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions  8 0 3 3 5 3 0 5 1 0 4 1 0 0 0 2 3 5
library to borrow the source for you 1.4 0 1.2 1.2 1.6 1.2 0 3.1 1 0 2.2 1 0 0 3.6 5.7 1.2 1.7
IM
Borrow from or use in other libraries 7 0 1 1 7 7 1 0 2 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 2 6
1.3 0 0.4 0.4 2 2.6 0.6 0 2 0 2.2 0 0 2.7 0 0 0.7 1.8
Home 6 0 2 2 4 6 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 3 3
1.1 0 0.9 0.9 1.2 2.2 0 0.2 2 0 1.1 1 1.4 1.4 0 0 1.1 1
Personal holdings 5 0 3 3 2 4 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 2
0.9 0 1.4 1.4 0.6 1.6 0.9 0 1 1.6 1.1 1 1.4 0 1.8 0 1.3 0.7
M
Purchase from physical book store 4 0 2 2 2 1 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 2
0.7 0 0.8 0.8 0.6 0.4 2 0.2 2 0 0 0 1.4 2.7 1.8 0 0.8 0.6
J J IJK
Colleagues 3 0 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 2
0.5 0 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.4 0 1.1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2.9 0.3 0.7
Dorm room 3 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3
0.4 0 0 0 0.8 0.6 0 0.7 0 0 0 2.1 1.4 0 0 0 0 0.8
J
Purchase from online bookstore 2 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2
0.4 0 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.7 0 1 0 0 0 0 1.4 1.8 0 0 0.7
IJK
Ask library to purchase source 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.2 0 0.4 0.4 0 0 0.7 0 0 1.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.4 0
Access from course website 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.1 0 0 0 0.1 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.4 0 0 0 0.1 0
J
In class 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0.1 0.1 0 0 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.8 0 0.1 0
HIJKM
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
Other 9 0 3 3 6 4 1 4 3 1 2 2 0 0 0 1 5 4
1.6 0 1.5 1.5 1.7 1.6 0.8 2.4 3 1.6 1.1 2.1 1.4 0 1.8 2.9 1.9 1.4
M
DK/Refused 11 0 4 4 7 8 2 1 0 3 4 0 1 4 0 0 7 4
2 0 1.7 1.7 2.2 3.1 1.6 0.7 0 4.9 2.2 0 4.1 5.5 0 0 2.7 1.5
HK HK HK

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