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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 292

T7D_15. When you are preparing teaching materials, where do you go to get Pre-prints?
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 Pre-prints for teaching 84* 71* 13** 84* 0** 32** 34** 18** 16** 21** 21** 11** 3** 12** 1** 0* 62* 22**
Borrow from or use in campus library 32 26 6 32 0 12 15 5 7 5 8 8 2 3 0 0 23 10
38.3 36.1 50.3 38.3 0 38.8 43.5 27.6 44.4 23.8 36.4 70 70 23.1 0 0 36.2 44.2
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  30 29 1 30 0 12 9 10 4 11 4 3 1 7 0 0 26 5
web sites, web searches, etc.) 36 40.6 10.1 36 0 37.5 25.8 52 22.2 52.4 18.2 30 30 61.5 66.7 0 41.2 21.1
Colleagues 15 12 3 15 0 7 6 3 4 3 6 2 0 1 0 0 13 2
18.2 17.4 22.6 18.2 0 21.2 16.6 15.9 22.2 14.3 27.3 20 0 7.7 0 0 21.6 8.6
Order from on demand document delivery service 5 5 0 5 0 1 2 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 3 2
5.6 6.6 0 5.6 0 2.9 5.5 10.2 0 0 18.2 0 0 7.7 0 0 4.5 8.6
Purchase from physical book store 4 4 0 4 0 2 2 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 1
4.7 5.6 0 4.7 0 6.7 5.5 0 0 4.8 9.1 10 0 0 0 0 4.6 5.1
Faculty 3 0 3 3 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1
3.8 0 24.9 3.8 0 0 9.3 0 11.1 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 3.3 5.1
Author 3 3 0 3 0 1 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
3.3 3.9 0 3.3 0 3.3 5.2 0 16.7 0 0 0 0 0 33.3 0 1.7 8
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions  2 2 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0
library to borrow the source for you 2.3 2.7 0 2.3 0 2.9 0 5.4 0 4.8 0 0 0 7.7 0 0 3.1 0
Purchase from online bookstore 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
2.2 2.6 0 2.2 0 0 0 10.2 0 0 9.1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Office 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
2.1 2.5 0 2.1 0 0 5.2 0 11.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.4 4
Access book/journal/journal article elsewhere online 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1.4 1.2 2.3 1.4 0 0 3.5 0 5.6 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0.5 4
Home 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
1.3 0 8.8 1.3 0 3.5 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 1.8 0
Department 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1.2 0 7.8 1.2 0 3.1 0 0 0 4.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4.6
Publisher 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1.2 1.4 0 1.2 0 3.1 0 0 0 4.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.6 0
Personal Collection/Holdings 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
0.7 0.8 0 0.7 0 0 0.9 1.6 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 0.9 0
Meeting/Conferences 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.3 0.4 0 0.3 0 0 0.9 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0.5 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
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
Borrow from or use in other libraries 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 6 6 0 6 0 0 5 1 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 2
6.8 8.1 0 6.8 0 0 14 5.4 0 9.5 18.2 0 0 0 0 0 6.2 8.6
DK/Refused 3 3 0 3 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1
3.3 3.9 0 3.3 0 6.1 0 4.8 5.6 4.8 0 0 0 7.7 0 0 3.1 4

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