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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 108

R7D_7. When you are doing research, where do you go to get Print abstracts and indexes?
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 Print abstracts and indexes for research 292 156 136 292 0** 129* 115* 49* 49* 60* 102* 30** 17* 32* 3** 0* 189 104*
Borrow from or use in campus library 222 120 101 222 0 100 88 34 36 42 81 25 13 23 2 0 147 75
75.9 77.1 74.5 75.9 0 78 76.6 68.9 73.2 70 79.6 81.5 75.9 73.5 81.2 0 77.9 72.2
Access online (includes Internet, web sites, 161 81 79 161 0 66 70 25 33 34 55 9 10 20 1 0 103 58
 web sites, web searches, etc.) 55 52.2 58.2 55 0 51.1 60.9 51.2 66.1 56.7 53.7 29.6 58.6 61.8 43.7 0 54.4 56.1
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions 28 20 8 28 0 9 8 11 4 11 6 4 2 1 0 0 19 8
 library to borrow the source for you 9.5 12.6 5.9 9.5 0 7.1 6.7 22.3 7.1 18.3 5.6 14.8 10.3 2.9 12.5 0 10.2 8.2
EF JM
Borrow from or use in other libraries 27 18 9 27 0 7 14 6 5 6 8 6 0 2 0 0 17 10
9.2 11.4 6.7 9.2 0 5.1 12.5 12.4 10.7 10 7.4 18.5 1.7 5.9 12.5 0 9.1 9.3
Personal holdings 4 4 0 4 0 3 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 4 0
1.3 2.5 0 1.3 0 2.1 1 0 1.8 0 0 3.7 0 5.9 0 0 2 0
J
Colleague 3 3 0 3 0 0 1 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1.1 1.9 0.2 1.1 0 0 1.1 4.1 0 5 0 0 1.7 0 0 0 1.6 0.3
E
Printed material 3 3 0 3 0 2 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
0.9 1.8 0 0.9 0 1.5 0 1.8 1.8 0 1.9 0 0 0 0 0 1.5 0
Purchase from online bookstore 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
0.3 0.6 0 0.3 0 0 0.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.9 0 0 0 0.9
Source 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0 0.2 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 3.4 0 0 0 0.3 0
IJ
Ask library to purchase source 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.1 0.2 0 0.1 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.7 0 0 0 0.2 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
0.1 0.2 0 0.1 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.7 0 0 0 0.2 0
Meetings/conference 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 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 1.7 0 0 0 0.2 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
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
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
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
Other 11 8 2 11 0 1 8 2 0 1 6 3 1 0 0 0 8 3
3.7 5.4 1.8 3.7 0 0.5 7.3 3.8 0 1.7 5.6 11.1 5.2 0 0 0 4.2 2.9
E H
DK/Refused 2 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
0.6 1.2 0 0.6 0 1.5 0 0 0 0 1.9 0 0 0 0 0 1 0

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