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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 81

R7E_3. Where do you prefer to get research-related 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,  42 17 25 42 0 19 20 3 10 6 11 9 3 3 1 0 33 10
web sites, web searches, etc.) 73.5 64.6 80.9 73.5 0 76.1 75.6 52.3 73.3 85.7 75 72.7 78.6 50 100 0 74.3 70.8
Borrow from or use in campus library 12 8 4 12 0 6 4 3 3 1 2 3 0 3 0 0 8 4
20.7 32 11.2 20.7 0 21.7 14 47.7 20 14.3 12.5 27.3 7.1 50 0 0 18 29.2
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
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
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
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
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
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
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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
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 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
2 3.3 0.9 2 0 1.1 3.3 0 6.7 0 0 0 7.1 0 0 0 2.7 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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