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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 7R [part 1]: Tables 62-118. 
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 80

R7D_3. When you are doing research, where do you go to get e-books?
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 e-books for research 58* 26** 31** 58* 0** 26** 26** 6** 13** 7** 15** 12** 4** 6** 1** 0* 44* 14**
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  47 21 26 47 0 22 23 3 10 7 13 10 3 4 1 0 38 10
web sites, web searches, etc.) 82 79.6 84.1 82 0 84.4 86.2 52.3 73.3 100 87.5 81.8 78.6 66.7 100 0 85.6 70.8
Borrow from or use in campus library 15 9 6 15 0 8 4 3 4 1 2 4 1 3 0 0 9 5
25.5 32.7 19.5 25.5 0 31.3 15.1 47.7 26.7 14.3 12.5 36.4 21.4 50 33.3 0 21.1 39.3
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0
 library to borrow the source for you 3.1 6.9 0 3.1 0 0 0 31.5 6.7 0 0 0 0 16.7 0 0 4.1 0
Order from on demand document delivery service 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
1.9 0 3.6 1.9 0 4.4 0 0 0 0 0 9.1 0 0 0 0 2.6 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
0.5 0 0.9 0.5 0 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 7.1 0 0 0 0.7 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
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
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
Purchase from physical book store 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Colleague 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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
Meetings/conference 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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
E-journals 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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
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
Printed material 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
2.5 3.3 1.8 2.5 0 2.3 3.3 0 6.7 0 0 0 14.3 0 0 0 3.3 0
DK/Refused 2 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
3.3 0 6 3.3 0 0 7.1 0 0 0 12.5 0 0 0 0 0 4.3 0

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