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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 372

S7E_8. Where do you prefer to get course-related 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,  284 0 130 130 155 123 64 98 42 40 94 45 9 35 4 15 131 154
web sites, web searches, etc.) 59.1 0 61 61 57.6 55.9 61.2 62.2 61.5 65.6 58.1 50.6 61.5 62.3 81.5 60 61.3 57.4
Borrow from or use in campus library 163 0 68 68 95 77 35 51 23 14 56 39 5 18 1 7 67 96
33.8 0 31.8 31.8 35.4 35 33.9 32.2 33.3 23 34.9 44.3 34.6 31.1 11.1 28 31.6 35.7
I
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions 5 0 3 3 2 3 0 2 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 4
 library to borrow the source for you 1 0 1.4 1.4 0.7 1.3 0 1.2 0 1.6 2.3 0 0 0 0 0 0.5 1.4
Borrow from or use in other libraries 4 0 0 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
0.8 0 0 0 1.4 1.7 0 0 0 0 2.3 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 0.7
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
Faculty 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
0.5 0 0.1 0.1 0.7 0 0.3 1.2 0 0 1.2 0 1.9 0 0 0 0.1 0.7
K
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
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
Personal holdings 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
0.2 0 0.4 0.4 0 0.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.6 0 0 0.4 0
Order from on demand document delivery service 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
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
Purchase from physical book store 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
Colleagues 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 7 0 6 6 1 5 2 0 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 4 3
1.5 0 2.8 2.8 0.4 2.2 2 0 2.6 3.3 0 1.3 0 1.6 3.7 4 1.9 1.1
D D J
DK/Refused 10 0 2 2 8 4 2 4 2 2 0 3 0 1 0 2 3 7
2.1 0 1 1 3 1.9 1.8 2.6 2.6 3.3 0 3.8 0 1.6 3.7 8 1.5 2.6
J J

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