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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 374

S7a_9. When you are doing your coursework, how do you find information about Online databases, data sets or data sources?
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 - Student 565 0** 236 236 329 254 142 169 87* 61* 175* 109* 21* 68* 9* 35* 262 303
Ask someone to assist you 161 0 57 57 104 58 38 64 24 21 34 37 6 20 3 16 86 75
28.4 0 24.1 24.1 31.5 23 26.9 37.8 27.3 34.4 19.4 34 30.1 28.8 32.7 45.7 32.8 24.6
E J J
Go to print sources 101 0 48 48 52 29 27 45 13 9 32 22 4 9 2 9 59 42
17.8 0 20.5 20.5 15.9 11.3 18.9 26.6 15.2 14.8 18.3 20.6 17.8 13.7 21.8 25.7 22.4 13.8
E Q
Go online 461 0 192 192 268 200 120 141 72 52 139 90 17 55 9 27 207 254
81.6 0 81.7 81.7 81.5 79 84.5 83 82.8 85.2 79.6 82.5 82.2 80.8 92.7 77.1 78.9 83.9

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