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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 158

R7E_14. Where do you prefer to get research-related 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,  119 67 52 119 0 48 45 25 26 27 38 6 8 15 1 0 74 45
web sites, web searches, etc.) 49.3 52.7 45.6 49.3 0 41.1 54.8 61.6 50.9 50.9 51.3 29.4 44.8 53.3 75 0 50 48.2
E
Borrow from or use in campus library 75 35 40 75 0 43 24 9 15 20 17 8 7 8 0 0 50 25
31.1 27.1 35.5 31.1 0 36.2 28.9 21 29.8 37.7 23.1 41.2 39.7 30 25 0 33.5 27.3
Borrow from or use in other libraries 5 2 3 5 0 3 1 2 1 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 4
2.2 1.9 2.4 2.2 0 2.3 0.7 4.6 1.8 0 5.1 0 3.4 0 0 0 1 4
I
Personal holdings 4 2 2 4 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 4 0
1.6 1.7 1.6 1.6 0 1.5 0 5.1 1.8 1.9 0 5.9 0 3.3 0 0 2.7 0
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions library to 3 0 3 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 3
 borrow the source for you 1.4 0 2.9 1.4 0 2.8 0 0 0 0 2.6 5.9 1.7 0 0 0 0.2 3.2
Colleague 3 1 2 3 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0
1.3 0.9 1.8 1.3 0 1.8 1.2 0 0 3.8 0 5.9 0 0 0 0 2.1 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
Order from on demand document delivery service 2 2 0 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
0.9 1.7 0 0.9 0 0.2 1.1 2.4 1.8 1.9 0 0 1.7 0 0 0 0.9 0.9
Source 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
0.9 1.7 0 0.9 0 0.2 2.3 0 0 0 2.6 0 1.7 0 0 0 1.5 0
Purchase from online bookstore 2 2 0 2 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
0.7 1.4 0 0.7 0 0.7 0 2.1 3.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.2 0
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
Ask library to purchase source 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.5 0 1 0.5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5.9 0 0 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 4 1 3 4 0 3 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 3
1.7 1.1 2.4 1.7 0 2.3 1.4 0.7 3.5 0 2.6 0 3.4 0 0 0 1 3
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DK/Refused 14 9 5 14 0 8 5 1 0 2 9 0 0 2 0 0 4 10
5.6 6.6 4.4 5.6 0 6.4 6.1 2.4 0 3.8 12.8 0 1.7 6.7 0 0 2.6 10.4
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