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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 116

R7E_8. Where do you prefer to get research-related Online 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 Online abstracts and indexes for research 348 171 178 348 0** 151 130 68* 63* 75* 109* 47* 17* 32* 5* 0* 222 126*
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  259 133 126 259 0 105 99 55 50 59 77 32 12 24 4 0 170 89
web sites, web searches, etc.) 74.2 77.7 70.8 74.2 0 69.4 76.1 81.1 79.2 78.7 70.7 69 69.5 76.5 71 0 76.5 70.1
Borrow from or use in campus library 56 18 38 56 0 33 17 6 11 5 23 10 3 5 1 0 30 26
16.2 10.6 21.6 16.2 0 22.1 13.3 8.6 16.7 6.7 20.7 21.4 15.3 14.7 19.4 0 13.6 20.8
A G I I I
Borrow from or use in other libraries 7 5 2 7 0 4 3 0 0 3 2 0 1 1 0 0 6 1
2 2.9 1.1 2 0 2.4 2.4 0 0 4 1.7 0 5.1 2.9 3.2 0 2.6 0.9
HK HK
Printed material 5 3 2 5 0 3 2 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 3 2
1.4 1.7 1.1 1.4 0 1.9 1.4 0 0 1.3 3.4 0 0 0 0 0 1.3 1.5
Personal holdings 4 3 1 4 0 1 0 3 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 1
1.2 1.8 0.6 1.2 0 0.6 0.1 4.6 1.4 2.7 0 2.4 0 0 3.2 0 1.5 0.7
F J
Office 3 2 1 3 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1
0.8 1.1 0.5 0.8 0 0.6 1.4 0 1.4 0 0 0 0 5.9 0 0 0.8 0.7
IJ
Purchase from online bookstore 2 1 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0 0 0.8 1.5 0 2.7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 0
Faculty 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
0.5 0 1.1 0.5 0 1.2 0 0 0 0 1.7 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.5
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
 library to borrow the source for you 0.3 0.7 0 0.3 0 0 0.9 0 0 0 0 2.4 0 0 0 0 0 0.9
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 0.1 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
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
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
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
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
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
Other 7 4 3 7 0 1 3 3 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 4 3
2 2.5 1.5 2 0 0.4 2.7 4.2 1.4 2.7 1.7 2.4 5.1 0 3.2 0 1.9 2.2
DK/Refused 3 1 2 3 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 1
0.8 0.3 1.2 0.8 0 1 0.9 0 0 1.3 0 2.4 3.4 0 0 0 0.8 0.8
HJ

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