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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 371

S7D_8. When you are doing your coursework, 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 coursework 481 0** 212 212 269 219 105* 157 69* 61* 162* 88* 15* 57* 5** 25* 213 268
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  317 0 140 140 177 137 70 111 45 47 102 49 11 41 4 19 150 167
web sites, web searches, etc.) 65.9 0 65.8 65.8 66 62.3 66.8 70.3 65.4 77 62.8 55.7 71.2 72.1 81.5 76 70.6 62.2
K K
Borrow from or use in campus library 219 0 91 91 128 99 48 73 33 21 77 45 7 24 2 10 95 125
45.6 0 43 43 47.7 45 45.8 46.3 48.7 34.4 47.7 50.6 48.1 42.6 37 40 44.4 46.5
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions  12 0 4 4 8 4 1 7 1 1 6 3 0 1 0 0 5 7
library to borrow the source for you 2.5 0 1.9 1.9 2.9 1.8 1.1 4.3 1.3 1.6 3.5 3.8 0 1.6 0 0 2.5 2.4
Borrow from or use in other libraries 7 0 2 2 5 6 0 1 0 0 6 0 0 1 0 0 3 4
1.4 0 0.9 0.9 1.9 2.7 0 0.6 0 0 3.5 0 1.9 1.6 0 0 1.5 1.4
K
Faculty 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 3
0.7 0 0.2 0.2 1.1 0 0.4 1.9 0 0 1.2 1.3 1.9 0 3.7 0 0.1 1.2
Ask library to purchase source 3 0 2 2 1 2 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
0.6 0 0.9 0.9 0.4 0.9 0 0.6 0 1.6 1.2 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 0.4
Personal holdings 2 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1
0.4 0 1 1 0 0.4 1.1 0 0 0 0 1.3 0 1.6 0 0 0.4 0.4
Order from on demand document delivery service 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
0.4 0 0 0 0.7 0 0 1.2 0 0 1.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.7
Purchase from online bookstore 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.3 0 0.5 0.5 0.1 0.6 0 0 0 1.6 0 0 1.9 0 0 0 0.5 0.1
JK
Purchase from physical book store 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.2 0 0 0 0.4 0 1.1 0 0 0 0 1.3 0 0 0 0 0 0.4
Access from course website 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
0.2 0 0 0 0.3 0 0.9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.6 0 0 0.4 0
Colleagues 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.2 0 0.4 0.4 0 0.4 0 0 1.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.3
Home 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
In class 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
Dorm room 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 11 0 8 8 4 6 3 3 6 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 4 7
2.4 0 3.6 3.6 1.4 2.6 2.8 1.8 9 4.9 0 1.3 0 1.6 3.7 0 1.8 2.8
JK J
DK/Refused 8 0 1 1 7 3 1 4 1 2 0 3 0 1 0 1 2 6
1.7 0 0.6 0.6 2.6 1.5 1 2.6 1.3 3.3 0 3.8 0 1.6 3.7 4 1.1 2.3
J J

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