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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 299

T7D_16. When you are preparing teaching materials, 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 teaching 83* 60* 23** 83* 0** 33** 34** 16** 11** 14** 23** 25** 4** 7** 0** 0* 60* 23**
Borrow from or use in campus library 45 32 12 45 0 17 19 8 6 7 13 13 3 2 0 0 33 12
54 53.9 54.2 54 0 52.5 57 50.7 58.3 50 58.3 54.5 66.7 28.6 100 0 55.1 51.1
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  26 18 8 26 0 10 10 5 4 6 6 8 2 1 0 0 21 5
web sites, web searches, etc.) 31 29.5 34.9 31 0 30.7 30.5 32.8 33.3 42.9 25 31.8 40 14.3 0 0 34.4 22.3
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your 15 13 2 15 0 4 4 7 1 2 2 10 1 0 0 0 10 6
 institutions library to borrow the source for you 18.6 22 9.8 18.6 0 11.7 12.9 44.3 8.3 14.3 8.3 40.9 13.3 0 0 0 16.6 23.8
Borrow from or use in other libraries 9 8 1 9 0 5 3 1 2 3 0 2 0 2 0 0 9 0
11.1 13.1 5.7 11.1 0 16.1 8.9 5.4 16.7 21.4 0 9.1 6.7 28.6 0 0 15.4 0
Colleagues 8 6 2 8 0 4 4 0 1 1 4 0 0 2 0 0 6 2
9.1 9.4 8.3 9.1 0 11.6 10.9 0 8.3 7.1 16.7 0 0 28.6 0 0 9.4 8.1
Personal Collection/Holdings 2 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
2.6 3.6 0 2.6 0 5.7 0.9 0 8.3 7.1 0 0 6.7 0 0 0 2.2 3.8
Order from on demand document delivery service 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1
2.4 3.3 0 2.4 0 0 5.9 0 8.3 0 0 4.5 0 0 0 0 1.5 4.8
Purchase from physical book store 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1
2.4 3.3 0 2.4 0 0 5.9 0 8.3 0 0 4.5 0 0 0 0 1.5 4.8
Meeting/Conferences 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
2.3 0 8.3 2.3 0 5.7 0 0 0 0 8.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 8.1
Publisher 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
1.4 1.9 0 1.4 0 0 3.3 0 0 0 0 4.5 0 0 0 0 0 4.8
Faculty 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
1.4 0 4.9 1.4 0 3.4 0 0 0 0 0 4.5 0 0 0 0 0 4.8
Author 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1.2 1.7 0 1.2 0 3.1 0 0 0 7.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.7 0
Access book/journal/journal article elsewhere online 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
1.1 1.5 0 1.1 0 2.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14.3 0 0 1.6 0
Purchase from online bookstore 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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
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
Office 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 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
Other 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
1.7 2.3 0 1.7 0 3.4 0.9 0 0 0 0 4.5 6.7 0 0 0 2.4 0
DK/Refused 4 4 0 4 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 1
4.7 6.4 0 4.7 0 3.4 5.4 5.7 8.3 0 0 4.5 0 28.6 0 0 4.9 4

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