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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 7R [part 2]: Tables 119-180. 
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Table 123

R7E_9. Where do you prefer to get research-related Online databases, data sets or data sources?
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 databases, data sets or data sources for research 324 162 162 324 0** 143 131 50* 49* 63* 98* 62* 15* 33* 5** 0* 200 124*
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  227 126 101 227 0 91 95 41 40 56 55 36 10 26 4 0 150 77
web sites, web searches, etc.) 70.2 77.7 62.6 70.2 0 63.2 72.9 83.3 82.1 88.9 55.8 58.2 70.6 80 82.1 0 75.1 62.2
B E JK JKL JK Q
Borrow from or use in campus library 59 17 43 59 0 35 19 5 5 7 26 13 4 3 1 0 28 31
18.3 10.3 26.4 18.3 0 24.7 14.4 10.4 10.7 11.1 26.9 21.8 27.5 8.6 10.7 0 14.1 25.2
A G HIM HIM P
Office 10 10 0 10 0 0 8 2 1 0 4 6 0 0 0 0 9 1
3.2 6.3 0 3.2 0 0 6.1 4.5 1.8 0 3.8 9.1 0 0 0 0 4.6 0.9
B E E I
Borrow from or use in other libraries 7 1 6 7 0 4 3 0 0 0 4 3 0 0 0 0 2 5
2.2 0.7 3.7 2.2 0 2.6 2.6 0 0 0 3.8 5.5 0 0 0 0 1.1 3.9
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions library to  4 0 4 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
borrow the source for you 1.2 0 2.3 1.2 0 2.6 0 0 0 0 3.8 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 1.5
Purchase from online bookstore 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
0.6 0 1.2 0.6 0 1.3 0 0 0 0 1.9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.5
Faculty 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
0.6 0 1.2 0.6 0 1.3 0 0 0 0 1.9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.5
Colleague 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 0.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.9 0 0 0.5 0
Personal holdings 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
0.3 0.6 0 0.3 0 0 0 1.9 0 0 0 0 0 2.9 0 0 0.5 0
Purchase from physical book store 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.3 0 0.5 0.3 0 0.6 0 0 1.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.4 0
Printed material 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.3 0 0.5 0.3 0 0.6 0 0 1.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.7
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
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
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
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
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
Other 3 2 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1
0.8 1.3 0.3 0.8 0 1.4 0.4 0 0 0 0 1.8 2 2.9 3.6 0 0.6 1
DK/Refused 6 4 2 6 0 1 5 0 1 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 4 2
1.9 2.5 1.2 1.9 0 0.9 3.7 0 1.8 0 1.9 3.6 0 2.9 3.6 0 2.1 1.5

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