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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 101

R7D_6. When you are doing research, where do you go to get Papers delivered at professional meetings?
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 Papers delivered at professional meetings for research 359 198 160 359 0** 164 126 69* 54* 78* 118* 59* 19* 29* 2** 0* 227 131*
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  178 102 76 178 0 77 64 36 35 45 49 20 12 17 1 0 120 58
web sites, web searches, etc.) 49.7 51.7 47.1 49.7 0 47.3 50.9 53 65.6 57.7 41.3 34 61.5 58.1 33.3 0 52.8 44.1
JK K JK K
Borrow from or use in campus library 136 50 85 136 0 72 42 22 25 35 30 30 10 5 1 0 79 57
37.8 25.4 53.1 37.8 0 44.3 32.9 31.2 45.9 44.9 25.4 50.9 55.4 16.1 33.3 0 34.6 43.3
A JM JM JM JM
Meetings/conference 54 40 14 54 0 22 17 15 7 6 26 9 1 4 1 0 30 24
15.1 20.4 8.5 15.1 0 13.3 13.5 22.2 13.1 7.7 22.2 15.1 7.7 12.9 33.3 0 13.4 18
B IL
Source 43 34 9 43 0 17 15 11 3 7 23 8 1 3 0 0 33 11
12.1 17.4 5.6 12.1 0 10.7 11.6 16.4 4.9 9 19 13.2 3.1 9.7 0 0 14.4 8.1
B HL
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions 28 21 7 28 0 10 9 9 6 10 4 6 2 0 0 0 21 7
 library to borrow the source for you 7.8 10.4 4.6 7.8 0 6.1 7.2 13.1 11.5 12.8 3.2 9.4 12.3 0 11.1 0 9.4 5
JM JM
Colleague 13 5 7 13 0 4 8 1 3 4 2 3 1 0 0 0 8 4
3.6 2.7 4.6 3.6 0 2.4 6 1.6 4.9 5.1 1.6 5.7 4.6 0 0 0 3.7 3.3
Borrow from or use in other libraries 12 6 6 12 0 3 6 3 2 5 2 3 0 0 0 0 6 6
3.3 3 3.8 3.3 0 1.9 4.7 4.4 3.3 6.4 1.6 5.7 0 0 0 0 2.6 4.6
Printed material 11 5 6 11 0 4 6 1 0 4 4 1 0 2 0 0 7 4
3 2.5 3.7 3 0 2.4 4.6 1.5 0 5.1 3.2 1.9 0 6.5 0 0 3.1 2.9
Order from on demand document delivery service 11 6 4 11 0 4 4 3 2 2 4 2 1 0 0 0 7 4
3 3.1 2.8 3 0 2.2 3.1 4.5 3.3 2.6 3.2 3.8 4.6 0 0 0 3 3
Personal holdings 9 9 0 9 0 0 2 7 1 2 6 0 0 0 0 0 8 1
2.5 4.4 0 2.5 0 0 1.5 10.1 1.6 2.6 4.8 0 1.5 0 0 0 3.4 0.8
B EF
Faculty 6 1 5 6 0 3 2 1 1 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 4 2
1.7 0.5 3.3 1.7 0 2 1.6 1.4 1.6 0 1.6 3.8 1.5 3.2 0 0 1.9 1.5
Ask library to purchase source 5 3 2 5 0 1 4 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
1.3 1.4 1.2 1.3 0 0.5 3 0 1.6 0 3.2 0 0 0 0 0 0.8 2.1
Office 2 2 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0
0.5 1 0 0.5 0 0 0.7 1.5 0 1.3 0 0 0 3.2 0 0 0.8 0
Purchase from physical book store 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0
0.5 1 0 0.5 0 0 1.5 0 0 1.3 0 0 0 3.2 0 0 0.8 0
E-journals 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.2 0 0.5 0.2 0 0.5 0 0 1.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.7
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 0.2 0.1 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.5 0 0 0 0.1 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
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 44 32 12 44 0 15 20 10 3 7 13 12 3 6 0 0 34 11
12.3 16.3 7.5 12.3 0 8.9 15.6 14.3 4.9 9 11.1 20.8 18.5 19.4 0 0 14.7 8.1
B H H H
DK/Refused 9 5 4 9 0 5 3 1 0 3 6 0 0 0 0 0 4 5
2.4 2.5 2.3 2.4 0 2.9 2.3 1.5 0 3.8 4.8 0 0 0 0 0 1.7 3.6

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