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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 157

R7D_14. When you are doing research, where do you go to get Technical Reports?
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 Technical Reports for research 242 128 114* 242 0** 117* 83* 41* 50* 53* 73* 19** 17* 28* 1** 0* 148 93*
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  156 84 72 156 0 73 57 26 32 36 47 11 9 20 1 0 95 61
web sites, web searches, etc.) 64.6 66 63 64.6 0 62.1 68.4 64.1 63.2 67.9 64.1 58.8 51.7 73.3 75 0 64.3 65.1
L
Borrow from or use in campus library 144 71 73 144 0 76 47 21 25 34 45 10 11 19 1 0 94 50
59.7 55.6 64.4 59.7 0 64.6 57.2 51.1 49.1 64.2 61.5 52.9 65.5 66.7 62.5 0 63.4 54
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions library to 16 12 4 16 0 6 4 6 3 7 4 1 2 0 0 0 9 7
 borrow the source for you 6.7 9.5 3.7 6.7 0 5.2 5.1 14.3 5.3 13.2 5.1 5.9 10.3 0 0 0 6.3 7.4
M M
Borrow from or use in other libraries 11 6 5 11 0 4 3 4 3 2 4 0 1 1 0 0 4 7
4.5 4.8 4.1 4.5 0 3.7 3.2 9.1 5.3 3.8 5.1 0 8.6 3.3 0 0 2.8 7
Colleague 8 3 4 8 0 6 2 0 0 2 4 1 1 0 0 0 6 2
3.2 2.6 3.9 3.2 0 5.3 1.9 0 0 3.8 5.1 5.9 5.2 0 0 0 3.8 2.3
H
Order from on demand document delivery service 7 7 0 7 0 1 4 2 2 2 2 0 1 1 0 0 4 4
3 5.6 0 3 0 1.1 4.4 5.4 3.5 3.8 2.6 0 3.4 3.3 0 0 2.4 3.9
B
Source 6 6 1 6 0 2 3 1 2 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 6 1
2.7 4.3 0.8 2.7 0 1.7 4.1 2.4 3.5 1.9 2.6 0 5.2 3.3 0 0 3.7 0.9
Personal holdings 6 3 3 6 0 2 1 3 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 6 0
2.4 2.4 2.4 2.4 0 1.5 1.1 7.6 3.5 3.8 0 5.9 0 3.3 0 0 3.9 0
Purchase from online bookstore 3 2 1 3 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0
1.2 1.4 1 1.2 0 1.7 0 2.1 3.5 0 0 5.9 0 0 0 0 1.9 0
Printed material 3 2 1 3 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1
1.2 1.6 0.8 1.2 0 1.7 1.1 0 3.5 0 0 5.9 0 0 0 0 1.3 0.9
Ask library to purchase source 3 1 1 3 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 1
1.1 0.9 1.2 1.1 0 1.2 1.4 0 1.8 0 0 5.9 3.4 0 0 0 1.1 0.9
IJ
Office 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
0.5 1 0 0.5 0 0 1.5 0 0 0 0 0 1.7 3.3 0 0 0.8 0
Faculty 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
0.4 0 0.8 0.4 0 0.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.3 0 0 0 1
E-journals 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.4 0 0.8 0.4 0 0.7 0 0 1.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.9
Meetings/conference 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.4 0.7 0 0.4 0 0 1.1 0 1.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.6 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
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
Other 24 14 10 24 0 14 6 3 4 3 11 3 1 1 0 0 9 14
9.7 10.9 8.5 9.7 0 11.9 7.8 7.7 8.8 5.7 15.4 17.6 3.4 3.3 0 0 6.3 15.2
P
DK/Refused 5 3 2 5 0 2 2 1 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
2 2.3 1.7 2 0 1.6 2.3 2.4 0 1.9 5.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5.1
P

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