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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 7R [part 2]: Tables 119-180. 
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 136

R7D_11. When you are doing research, where do you go to get Proprietary software or application?
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 Proprietary software or application for research 253 137 116 253 0** 113* 97* 44* 49* 72* 58* 32** 12* 26** 2** 0* 174 79*
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  142 85 57 142 0 62 48 32 29 51 24 18 8 11 1 0 99 43
web sites, web searches, etc.) 56.3 62.2 49.4 56.3 0 55.3 50 73.1 58.9 70.8 41.9 55.2 60.5 42.9 57.1 0 57 54.8
F J
Borrow from or use in campus library 70 27 43 70 0 33 34 3 15 10 21 13 3 7 1 0 44 26
27.8 20 36.9 27.8 0 29.1 35.6 7 30.4 13.9 35.5 41.4 25.6 28.6 21.4 0 25.3 33.2
A G G I I
Purchase from physical book store 17 6 11 17 0 9 9 0 4 4 4 2 1 2 0 0 11 7
6.9 4.5 9.7 6.9 0 7.8 8.9 0 8.9 5.6 6.5 6.9 9.3 7.1 0 0 6.1 8.5
Purchase from online bookstore 17 10 6 17 0 6 6 5 4 4 2 2 0 4 0 0 12 5
6.6 7.6 5.4 6.6 0 5.2 6.3 11 8.9 5.6 3.2 6.9 2.3 14.3 7.1 0 6.8 6.2
Colleague 10 6 4 10 0 4 4 2 2 5 2 1 0 0 0 0 6 4
4 4.1 3.8 4 0 3.7 4 4.6 3.6 6.9 3.2 3.4 2.3 0 0 0 3.3 5.4
Order from on demand document delivery service 9 5 4 9 0 1 3 5 1 5 2 0 0 1 0 0 5 4
3.6 3.6 3.5 3.6 0 1 3 11.3 1.8 6.9 3.2 0 2.3 3.6 0 0 3 4.7
E
Ask library to purchase source 7 5 2 7 0 2 2 3 2 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 6 1
2.8 3.7 1.7 2.8 0 2.1 1.9 6.3 3.6 2.8 3.2 0 2.3 3.6 7.1 0 3.3 1.7
Office 5 4 1 5 0 0 4 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 5 0
2 2.8 1.1 2 0 0.3 3.9 2.6 1.8 1.4 3.2 3.4 2.3 0 0 0 2.8 0.4
Faculty 5 0 5 5 0 4 1 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 4
1.9 0 4.2 1.9 0 3.6 0.9 0 0 0 6.5 0 9.3 0 0 0 0.3 5.5
A HI P
Source 4 3 1 4 0 0 1 3 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 0
1.7 2.1 1.1 1.7 0 0 1.3 6.7 0 4.2 0 0 2.3 3.6 0 0 2.4 0
E
Borrow from or use in other libraries 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.5 0.1 0.9 0.5 0 0.9 0.2 0 1.8 0 0 0 0 0 14.3 0 0.6 0.2
Meetings/conference 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.4 0.7 0 0.4 0 0.9 0 0 0 1.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.6 0
Printed material 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.4 0.7 0 0.4 0 0 0 2.3 0 1.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.6 0
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions library to  1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
borrow the source for you 0.3 0 0.8 0.3 0 0 0.9 0 1.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.1
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
Personal holdings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 60 40 20 60 0 23 24 12 10 15 17 3 3 12 0 0 40 20
23.7 29 17.5 23.7 0 20.7 25.2 28.2 19.6 20.8 29 10.3 20.9 46.4 14.3 0 22.9 25.4
B
DK/Refused 8 5 3 8 0 6 2 0 2 0 4 1 0 1 0 0 4 4
3 3.5 2.4 3 0 5 1.9 0 3.6 0 6.5 3.4 0 3.6 0 0 2.3 4.6

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