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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 7R [part 1]: Tables 62-118. 
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 115

R7D_8. When you are doing research, where do you go to get Online 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 Online abstracts and indexes for research 348 171 178 348 0** 151 130 68* 63* 75* 109* 47* 17* 32* 5* 0* 222 126*
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  282 144 138 282 0 119 105 58 53 63 85 37 13 27 4 0 183 99
web sites, web searches, etc.) 80.9 84 77.9 80.9 0 79 81 85.1 83.3 84 77.6 78.6 78 85.3 80.6 0 82.4 78.2
Borrow from or use in campus library 121 49 72 121 0 63 39 19 24 22 43 17 6 7 2 0 66 55
34.8 28.8 40.5 34.8 0 41.6 30.2 28.4 37.5 29.3 39.7 35.7 33.9 23.5 41.9 0 29.7 43.8
A P
Borrow from or use in other libraries 15 12 3 15 0 4 7 4 2 6 4 1 1 1 0 0 9 6
4.4 7 1.8 4.4 0 2.6 5.7 5.5 2.8 8 3.4 2.4 8.5 2.9 3.2 0 4.2 4.6
B
Personal holdings 10 9 1 10 0 3 3 4 2 3 2 2 0 1 0 0 9 1
2.9 5.2 0.6 2.9 0 1.8 2.4 6.1 2.8 4 1.7 4.8 0 2.9 3.2 0 4.1 0.7
B
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions 9 9 0 9 0 2 4 3 4 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 5 4
 library to borrow the source for you 2.5 5 0.2 2.5 0 1 3.1 4.8 5.6 1.3 0 4.8 6.8 2.9 0 0 2.2 3.1
B J IJ
Printed material 7 4 3 7 0 4 2 1 1 1 4 0 0 1 0 0 5 2
1.9 2.2 1.6 1.9 0 2.5 1.4 1.4 1.4 1.3 3.4 0 0 2.9 0 0 2.1 1.5
Office 4 3 1 4 0 1 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 2
1 1.6 0.5 1 0 0.6 1.4 1.3 2.8 0 0 0 0 5.9 0 0 0.8 1.4
IJ
Purchase from online bookstore 2 1 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
0.7 0.8 0.6 0.7 0 0 0.8 1.9 0 2.7 0 0 1.7 0 0 0 1 0
Order from on demand document delivery service 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
0.6 1 0.2 0.6 0 0 1.6 0 2.8 0 0 0 1.7 0 0 0 0.9 0
Source 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
0.6 1.2 0 0.6 0 0.2 1.4 0 2.8 0 0 0 1.7 0 0 0 0.5 0.7
Faculty 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
0.5 0 1.1 0.5 0 1.2 0 0 0 0 1.7 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.5
Purchase from physical book store 2 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0
0.5 0.3 0.6 0.5 0 0.2 0.8 0.4 0 1.3 0 0 3.4 0 0 0 0.7 0
HJ
Ask library to purchase source 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
0.4 0.7 0 0.4 0 0.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.7 2.9 0 0 0.1 0.7
Colleague 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
0.3 0 0.5 0.3 0 0 0.7 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.9 0 0 0.4 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
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
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
Other 17 14 2 17 0 2 11 4 1 4 8 3 1 0 0 0 14 3
4.8 8.3 1.4 4.8 0 1 8.4 6.1 1.4 5.3 6.9 7.1 5.1 0 0 0 6.2 2.2
B E E
DK/Refused 2 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1
0.6 0 1.2 0.6 0 0.7 0.9 0 0 1.3 0 2.4 0 0 0 0 0.5 0.8

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