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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question T7: Tables 190-308 
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 251

T7E_9. Where do you prefer to get teaching-related 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  296 222 74* 296 0** 110* 117* 68* 36* 68* 88* 62* 8** 31* 3** 0* 217 79*
data sources for teaching
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  216 171 45 216 0 76 90 50 28 50 70 37 7 22 2 0 162 54
web sites, web searches, etc.) 73 77.3 60.2 73 0 68.4 77.2 73.4 78 73.5 78.7 60 82.8 72.7 80 0 74.7 68.6
B K
Borrow from or use in campus library 40 23 17 40 0 15 13 12 4 10 9 12 0 4 0 0 27 13
13.5 10.5 22.7 13.5 0 13.8 10.8 17.8 12.2 14.7 10.6 20 0 12.1 6.7 0 12.5 16.3
A
Colleagues 4 1 3 4 0 1 3 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 2
1.4 0.4 4.4 1.4 0 1 2.6 0 0 1.5 0 3.6 0 3 0 0 0.9 2.8
A
Publisher 4 4 0 4 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 1
1.4 1.9 0 1.4 0 1.1 0.8 3 2.4 0 0 1.8 3.4 6.1 0 0 1.5 1.2
IJ
Borrow from or use in other libraries 3 0 3 3 0 3 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
1 0 3.9 1 0 2.6 0 0 0 1.5 2.1 0 0 0 0 0 0.5 2.4
A
Author 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
0.6 0.8 0 0.6 0 0 1.6 0 0 0 2.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.4
P
Home 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
0.6 0 2.5 0.6 0 1.7 0 0 0 0 2.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.4
A P
Purchase from physical book store 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.4 0 1.7 0.4 0 1.2 0 0 0 1.5 0 0 3.4 0 0 0 0.6 0
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your  1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
institutions library to borrow the source for you 0.4 0.5 0 0.4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1.8 0 0 0 0 0.5 0
Office 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.4 0.5 0 0.4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.8 0 0 0 0 0.5 0
Access book/journal/journal article elsewhere online 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.3 0.5 0 0.3 0 0 0 1.5 0 1.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.5 0
Personal Collection/Holdings 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.3 0.5 0 0.3 0 0 0.9 0 0 1.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.5 0
Order from on demand document delivery service 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
0.3 0.4 0 0.3 0 0 0.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0.4 0
Meeting/Conferences 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
0.3 0.4 0 0.3 0 0.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0.4 0
Ask library to purchase source 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.1 0 0.4 0.1 0 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.4 0 0 0 0.1 0
Department 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
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
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
Other 4 1 3 4 0 4 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 2
1.5 0.6 4.2 1.5 0 4 0 0 2.4 1.5 0 3.6 0 0 13.3 0 1 2.8
DK/Refused 13 13 0 13 0 4 5 3 2 2 4 4 1 0 0 0 12 1
4.3 5.7 0 4.3 0 4 4.4 4.4 4.9 2.9 4.3 7.3 6.9 0 0 0 5.4 1.1

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