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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 171

R7D_16. When you are doing research, where do you go to get Dissertations?
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 Dissertations for research 290 140 150 290 0** 133 121* 37* 36* 68* 100* 49* 15* 20** 2** 0* 193 97*
Borrow from or use in campus library 164 63 101 164 0 86 63 15 22 32 60 28 8 12 1 0 101 63
56.4 45.2 66.9 56.4 0 65.1 51.8 39.9 61 47.1 60.4 56.8 56.9 59.1 54.5 0 52.3 64.6
A G
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  90 40 50 90 0 43 35 11 16 20 28 11 4 9 1 0 59 31
web sites, web searches, etc.) 30.9 28.5 33.1 30.9 0 32.5 29 31.3 43.9 29.4 28.3 22.7 29.4 45.5 36.4 0 30.4 31.8
K
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions library to  75 49 26 75 0 29 33 13 10 15 23 21 3 3 1 0 52 23
borrow the source for you 25.8 34.9 17.3 25.8 0 21.6 27.1 36.2 26.8 22.1 22.6 43.2 19.6 13.6 27.3 0 27 23.3
B IJL
Borrow from or use in other libraries 18 8 10 18 0 7 8 3 2 3 8 4 1 0 0 0 10 8
6.2 5.8 6.6 6.2 0 5.3 6.8 7.5 4.9 4.4 7.5 9.1 7.8 0 9.1 0 5.2 8.3
Order from on demand document delivery service 10 9 0 10 0 2 3 4 1 2 4 2 1 0 0 0 9 1
3.4 6.8 0.2 3.4 0 1.7 2.9 10.9 2.4 2.9 3.8 4.5 5.9 0 0 0 4.6 0.9
B E
Colleague 8 4 4 8 0 3 4 1 1 4 0 2 0 1 0 0 6 2
2.8 2.9 2.7 2.8 0 2.4 3.4 2.5 2.4 5.9 0 4.5 0 4.5 9.1 0 3.2 2.1
J
Source 7 6 1 7 0 4 2 0 1 2 0 0 1 3 0 0 7 0
2.3 4 0.7 2.3 0 3 1.8 0.8 2.4 2.9 0 0 5.9 13.6 0 0 3.4 0
JK
Purchase from physical book store 2 1 1 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0
0.8 1 0.6 0.8 0 1.5 0.2 0 2.4 0 0 2.3 2 0 0 0 1.2 0
Faculty 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
0.8 0.2 1.3 0.8 0 1.7 0 0 0 2.9 0 0 2 0 0 0 1.2 0
Ask library to purchase source 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
0.6 0 1.3 0.6 0 1.4 0 0 0 0 1.9 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Office 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
0.4 0 0.7 0.4 0 0 0.9 0 0 0 0 0 5.9 0 9.1 0 0.2 0.6
HIJK
Personal holdings 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.3 0.6 0 0.3 0 0 0 2.4 2.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.5 0
Purchase from online bookstore 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.1 0.2 0 0.1 0 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0.2 0
Printed material 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.1 0 0.1 0.1 0 0 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9.1 0 0.1 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 32 17 14 32 0 8 18 5 4 11 9 6 2 0 0 0 20 12
10.9 12.2 9.6 10.9 0 6.2 15.2 13.7 9.8 16.2 9.4 11.4 13.7 0 0 0 10.3 12
E
DK/Refused 4 1 3 4 0 2 2 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
1.4 0.8 2 1.4 0 1.7 1.6 0 2.4 4.4 0 0 2 0 0 0 1.6 1

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