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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 109

R7E_7. Where do you prefer to get research-related 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 139 71 68 139 0 67 51 22 19 29 51 21 6 11 2 0 86 54
47.7 45.7 50 47.7 0 52 44.3 44.4 39.3 48.3 50 70.4 37.9 35.3 56.2 0 45.5 51.8
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  133 67 66 133 0 53 57 23 27 29 43 6 8 19 1 0 84 49
web sites, web searches, etc.) 45.6 43.1 48.5 45.6 0 41.2 50.1 46.7 55.4 48.3 42.6 18.5 50 58.8 43.7 0 44.8 47.1
Borrow from or use in other libraries 5 4 1 5 0 1 3 1 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 4 1
1.7 2.5 0.8 1.7 0 0.7 2.7 2 1.8 1.7 0 7.4 0 2.9 0 0 2.1 1.1
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions  2 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0
library to borrow the source for you 0.8 1.3 0.2 0.8 0 0.2 0 4.2 3.6 0 0 0 3.4 0 0 0 1.2 0
F IJ
Printed material 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
Colleague 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.3 0.6 0 0.3 0 0 0 2 0 1.7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.5 0
Personal holdings 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
0.3 0.6 0 0.3 0 0.7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.9 0 0 0.5 0
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
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
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
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
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 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
Other 3 3 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 0
1.1 1.9 0.2 1.1 0 0.2 2.6 0 0 0 1.9 3.7 1.7 0 0 0 1.7 0
DK/Refused 4 4 0 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1.4 2.6 0 1.4 0 2.9 0 0.6 0 0 3.7 0 1.7 0 0 0 2.1 0

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