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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 8R: Tables 181-188. 
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 188

R8D2. And, what percent of your current information needs for your research that
      are available online are available Through the Internet?
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 - At least one percent of current
 information needs for research are 
available online 1519 778 742 1519 0** 684 577 259 265 312 474 230 77 145 17 0* 990 529
25% or less 368 183 186 368 0 169 144 56 79 57 109 72 20 30 2 0 234 135
24.2 23.5 25 24.2 0 24.8 24.9 21.5 29.9 18.3 23 31.2 25.7 20.5 10.9 0 23.6 25.5
IMN N IJMN IN
26% - 50% 350 173 177 350 0 176 117 58 56 63 128 54 15 33 2 0 217 134
23.1 22.3 23.9 23.1 0 25.7 20.3 22.3 21.3 20.2 27 23.4 19.6 22.4 10.9 0 21.9 25.3
F N N N N N
51% - 75% 173 76 97 173 0 65 75 34 26 39 55 15 11 25 2 0 117 56
11.4 9.7 13.1 11.4 0 9.5 12.9 13.1 10 12.5 11.5 6.3 14.7 17.3 12.9 0 11.8 10.6
K K HK K
76% - 100% 572 300 271 572 0 259 223 90 96 139 164 80 28 56 11 0 392 180
37.6 38.6 36.6 37.6 0 37.9 38.6 34.8 36.2 44.6 34.5 34.6 35.8 38.5 61.4 0 39.6 34
HJKL HIJKLM
Don't Know 56 46 10 56 0 15 19 21 7 14 19 10 3 2 1 0 31 25
3.7 5.9 1.3 3.7 0 2.2 3.3 8.3 2.7 4.5 4 4.4 4.2 1.3 4 0 3.1 4.7
B EF
Median 56.09 56.65 55.52 56.09 0 49.44 58.5 54.37 48.26 72.22 49.17 46.82 57.73 63.33 84.17 0 59.58 47.31
EF J J J HIJKM HIJK HIJKM
Mean 58.08 58.92 57.25 58.08 0 57.18 58.3 60.11 55.62 64.3 56.81 52.83 57.39 60.06 75.28 0 59.74 54.93
HJKL K HIJKLM Q
Standard Deviation 33.82 33.96 33.68 33.82 0 33.88 34.31 32.49 34.76 32.6 33.39 35.06 34.07 32.44 28.66 0 33.67 33.91
Standard Error 0.86 1.24 1.21 0.86 0 1.3 1.37 2.15 2.03 1.89 2.15 2.5 2.14 2.61 2.91 0 1.03 1.57

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