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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 427

S7D_16. When you are doing your coursework, 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 coursework 243 0** 130* 130* 113* 107* 66* 70* 26** 29** 94* 59* 11* 18** 1** 5* 114* 129*
Borrow from or use in campus library 176 0 87 87 89 76 45 55 18 20 70 46 8 12 1 2 86 90
72.5 0 67.4 67.4 78.4 71.6 67.6 78.5 69 69 74 77.4 71.1 68.4 87.5 40 75.2 70.1
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  111 0 53 53 58 46 26 39 12 13 47 18 5 10 1 5 48 63
web sites, web searches, etc.) 45.7 0 41.1 41.1 51 43.4 39.3 55.4 48.3 44.8 50 30.2 44.7 57.9 50 100 41.9 49.1
K
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions  19 0 11 11 7 8 4 6 3 1 4 9 0 2 0 0 9 9
library to borrow the source for you 7.6 0 8.7 8.7 6.4 7.4 6.4 9.1 10.3 3.4 4 15.1 2.6 10.5 0 0 8.3 7
J
Borrow from or use in other libraries 12 0 7 7 5 4 5 3 1 1 8 2 0 0 0 0 5 7
4.9 0 5.4 5.4 4.3 3.5 7.9 4.3 3.4 3.4 8 3.8 2.6 0 0 0 4.5 5.3
Faculty 10 0 3 3 7 3 1 7 4 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 5 5
4.3 0 2.7 2.7 6.1 2.8 1.1 9.4 13.8 0 4 1.9 7.9 5.3 12.5 0 4.7 3.9
Ask library to purchase source 4 0 4 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
1.5 0 2.9 2.9 0 3.5 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 1.6 1.5
Purchase from online bookstore 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
0.8 0 0 0 1.7 1.8 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.5
Purchase from physical book store 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.1 0 0 0 0.3 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.6 0 0 0 0.3 0
J
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
0.1 0 0 0 0.3 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.6 0 0 0 0 0.2
J
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
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
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
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
Personal holdings 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 5 5 2 4 1 2 2 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 3 4
2.8 0 3.7 3.7 1.9 3.5 1.6 3 6.9 3.4 2 1.9 0 5.3 12.5 0 2.8 2.8
DK/Refused 2 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1
1 0 1.1 1.1 0.9 0.9 2.1 0 0 3.4 0 1.9 2.6 0 0 0 1.1 0.9
J

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