Previous Home Next


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 143

R7D_12. When you are doing research, where do you go to get Data?
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 Data for research 337 156 181 337 0** 153 135 49* 60* 61* 115* 45* 18* 36* 3** 0* 210 127*
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  224 112 112 224 0 92 94 38 42 44 75 17 13 31 2 0 150 74
web sites, web searches, etc.) 66.4 71.5 62.1 66.4 0 59.9 69.8 77.5 70.6 72.1 65.6 37.5 72.1 84.6 81.2 0 71.5 58.1
E K K K K JK Q
Borrow from or use in campus library 166 72 94 166 0 80 62 24 26 36 53 30 8 12 1 0 100 66
49.2 45.9 52.1 49.2 0 52 46.1 49.4 42.6 59 45.9 67.5 47.5 33.3 37.5 0 47.7 51.8
M HJLM
Borrow from or use in other libraries 25 15 10 25 0 8 11 6 4 4 9 8 1 0 0 0 17 8
7.5 9.8 5.5 7.5 0 5.3 8.4 12 5.9 6.6 8.2 17.5 3.3 0 0 0 8.3 6.3
LM
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions library to 20 15 5 20 0 6 10 5 4 4 4 6 2 2 0 0 14 7
 borrow the source for you 6.1 9.8 2.8 6.1 0 4 7.3 9.2 5.9 6.6 3.3 12.5 9.8 5.1 0 0 6.6 5.1
B
Personal holdings 12 12 0 12 0 3 3 5 3 2 2 4 1 0 0 0 10 2
3.5 7.4 0.1 3.5 0 2.3 2.4 10.2 4.4 3.3 1.6 10 3.3 0 6.3 0 4.6 1.7
B EF J
Printed material 11 8 3 11 0 4 3 4 3 3 4 1 0 0 0 0 6 5
3.1 4.9 1.6 3.1 0 2.5 2.1 7.7 4.4 4.9 3.3 2.5 0 0 0 0 2.8 3.7
Source 5 3 2 5 0 4 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 2 0 0 4 1
1.6 2.2 1 1.6 0 2.9 0 1.9 0 1.6 1.6 0 3.3 5.1 0 0 2.1 0.8
H
Colleague 5 2 3 5 0 1 4 0 1 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 2
1.4 1.2 1.7 1.4 0 0.7 2.9 0 1.5 1.6 0 2.5 0 5.1 0 0 1.3 1.7
J
Purchase from physical book store 5 2 2 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 2 3
1.4 1.5 1.2 1.4 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 7.5 1.6 2.6 0 0 1 2
HIJ
Office 3 2 1 3 0 0 3 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 3 0
1 1.6 0.6 1 0 0 2.6 0 0 1.6 1.6 0 3.3 0 0 0 1.6 0
H
Order from on demand document delivery service 3 2 1 3 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1
0.9 1.3 0.5 0.9 0 0.6 0.9 1.8 2.9 0 0 0 1.6 2.6 0 0 1 0.7
Purchase from online bookstore 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
0.4 0.8 0 0.4 0 0.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.6 2.6 0 0 0.4 0.2
Ask library to purchase source 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.3 0.7 0 0.3 0 0 0.2 1.8 1.5 0 0 0 1.6 0 0 0 0.6 0
Faculty 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.3 0 0.6 0.3 0 0 0.8 0 0 0 0 2.5 0 0 0 0 0 0.9
E-journals 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.3 0.6 0 0.3 0 0 0.7 0 1.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.4 0
Meetings/conference 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 1.6 0 0 0 0.1 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
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 35 21 14 35 0 20 7 8 11 3 11 2 2 6 0 0 20 14
10.3 13.2 7.7 10.3 0 13.4 4.9 15.4 17.6 4.9 9.8 5 9.8 15.4 6.3 0 9.6 11.3
F F I
DK/Refused 6 5 1 6 0 2 4 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 2 4
1.7 3.2 0.5 1.7 0 1.4 2.7 0 1.5 1.6 1.6 2.5 0 2.6 0 0 0.9 3.1

Previous Home Next