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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 244

T7E_8. Where do you prefer to get teaching-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 teaching 173 126 47* 173 0** 68* 58* 47* 26** 29** 58* 32** 5** 20** 2** 0* 120* 53*
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  125 92 33 125 0 53 38 34 18 20 45 19 4 18 1 0 91 34
web sites, web searches, etc.) 72.4 73.3 69.8 72.4 0 77.7 66.1 72.4 70 69 77.4 58.6 76.5 86.4 77.8 0 75.6 65
Borrow from or use in campus library 33 21 12 33 0 13 15 5 4 6 9 10 0 3 0 0 20 14
19.1 17.1 24.6 19.1 0 19.6 25.4 10.7 16.7 20.7 16.1 31 5.9 13.6 11.1 0 16.3 25.7
Office 2 2 0 2 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
1.2 1.6 0 1.2 0 0 1.9 1.9 3.3 0 0 3.4 0 0 0 0 0 3.8
Access book/journal/journal article elsewhere online 2 2 0 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1.1 1.5 0 1.1 0 0 1.5 2.1 3.3 3.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.6 0
Home 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1.1 1.5 0 1.1 0 0 0 4 0 0 3.2 0 0 0 0 0 1.6 0
Borrow from or use in other libraries 2 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0
0.9 1 0.6 0.9 0 0 1 2.1 0 3.4 0 0 11.8 0 0 0 1.3 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 0.8 0 0.6 0 0 1.7 0 0 3.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.8 0
Meeting/Conferences 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.5 0.7 0 0.5 0 0 0 1.9 3.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.7 0
Publisher 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.5 0.7 0 0.5 0 0 1.5 0 3.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.7
Faculty 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.2 0 0.6 0.2 0 0 0.5 0 0 0 0 0 5.9 0 0 0 0.2 0
Purchase from online bookstore 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.1 0 0.4 0.1 0 0 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11.1 0 0 0.3
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
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
 institutions library to borrow the source for you 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
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
Department 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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
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
Personal Collection/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 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
1.1 0 4 1.1 0 2.7 0 0 0 0 3.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.6
DK/Refused 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0
1.3 1.8 0 1.3 0 0 0 4.8 0 0 0 6.9 0 0 0 0 1.9 0

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