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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question T7: Tables 190-308 
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 237

T7E_7. Where do you prefer to get teaching-related Print 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 Print abstracts and indexes for teaching 154 110* 44* 154 0** 58* 53* 43* 37* 25** 43** 29** 6** 13** 1** 0* 107* 47*
Borrow from or use in campus library 85 61 23 85 0 32 26 26 20 12 24 17 3 7 0 0 57 27
54.8 55.3 53.4 54.8 0 55.2 49.9 60.2 54.8 48 56.5 57.7 54.5 57.1 25 0 53.5 57.6
Access online (includes Internet, web sites, 48 35 13 48 0 18 18 13 13 8 13 6 2 6 1 0 35 13
 web sites, web searches, etc.) 31.3 31.6 30.6 31.3 0 30.7 34 28.8 35.7 32 30.4 19.2 36.4 42.9 75 0 32.6 28.4
Borrow from or use in other libraries 3 1 2 3 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 2
1.9 1 4.3 1.9 0 3.2 2.1 0 0 0 4.3 3.8 0 0 0 0 1 4
Personal Collection/Holdings 3 3 0 3 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0
1.9 2.7 0 1.9 0 1.5 2.1 2.3 2.4 4 0 3.8 0 0 0 0 2.8 0
Publisher 3 1 2 3 0 2 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
1.8 0.8 4.3 1.8 0 3.2 0 2 2.4 0 4.3 0 0 0 0 0 0.8 4
Purchase from online bookstore 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
1.4 2 0 1.4 0 0 0.5 4.3 0 0 4.3 0 4.5 0 0 0 0.3 4
Home 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.7 1 0 0.7 0 0 2.1 0 0 0 0 3.8 0 0 0 0 1 0
Department 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.7 0 2.5 0.7 0 1.9 0 0 0 0 0 3.8 0 0 0 0 1 0
Purchase from physical book store 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.6 0.9 0 0.6 0 0 1.9 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 0
Access book/journal/journal article elsewhere online 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.6 0.9 0 0.6 0 0 0 2.3 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.1
Colleagues 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.6 0 2.3 0.6 0 0 1.9 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 0
Office 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.6 0 2 0.6 0 0 1.7 0 2.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.8 0
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
 institutions library to borrow the source for you 0.6 0.8 0 0.6 0 0 1.7 0 2.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.8 0
Meeting/Conferences 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
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
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
Author 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
Ask library to purchase source 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
Faculty 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 2 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0
1.6 1.9 0.7 1.6 0 2.2 2.1 0 0 4 0 3.8 4.5 0 0 0 2.2 0
DK/Refused 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.7 1 0 0.7 0 1.9 0 0 0 0 0 3.8 0 0 0 0 1 0

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