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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 23: Tables 605-606
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 605
Q23a. What are the top three web sites you access for information to assist you
      with your teaching or research/study needs?  Please do not include search engines.
Base Faculty Member Graduate Student Faculty / Graduate Student Under Graduate Student Public Private Liberal Arts Biological Sciences Physical Sciences Social Sciences Arts & 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 the Internet 1046 302 333 635 410 433 276 336 150 175 295 207 44 131 10* 33* 599 447
Library website 115 19 53 72 43 59 31 25 15 15 38 26 10 7 1 5 52 63
11 6.4 15.9 11.4 10.5 13.6 11.2 7.5 9.9 8.6 12.7 12.4 21.9 5 10 15.2 8.8 14.1
A G M M HIJKM P
Campus/University Website (unspecified) 75 17 22 39 36 32 14 28 7 13 15 22 4 11 0 2 44 30
7.1 5.6 6.5 6.1 8.8 7.5 5.1 8.4 4.7 7.4 5.1 10.8 8.6 8.5 3.3 6.1 7.4 6.8
HJ
LexisNexis 62 13 22 35 27 11 25 25 2 1 32 7 1 13 6 1 36 26
5.9 4.4 6.5 5.5 6.6 2.6 9.1 7.5 1.2 0.6 10.8 3.2 2 9.9 55 3 6 5.8
E E HIKL HIKL HIJKLM
New York Times 46 10 5 15 31 12 9 26 3 4 21 8 0 8 1 2 31 15
4.4 3.3 1.5 2.4 7.6 2.7 3.2 7.6 1.8 2.3 7 3.8 0 6.4 6.7 6.1 5.1 3.4
ABC EF HL L HL HL
Yahoo 36 5 7 11 24 19 7 10 2 4 13 6 1 8 0 2 22 14
3.4 1.5 2 1.8 5.9 4.4 2.5 2.9 1.2 2.3 4.5 2.7 1.3 6.4 1.7 6.1 3.6 3.2
ABC H
CNN 36 5 7 12 24 15 9 11 1 1 8 8 1 15 1 2 25 10
3.4 1.5 2.1 1.8 5.8 3.5 3.2 3.4 0.6 0.6 2.5 3.8 2 11.3 5 6.1 4.2 2.3
ABC I HIJKL HI
Search Engines (Unspecified) 35 5 10 15 20 13 9 13 2 5 13 9 2 3 0 1 16 19
3.3 1.8 2.9 2.4 4.8 2.9 3.3 3.9 1.2 2.9 4.5 4.3 4.6 2.1 1.7 3 2.6 4.3
A H
Web of science 32 10 19 30 2 15 10 7 7 13 8 1 3 0 0 0 14 18
3 3.4 5.8 4.7 0.5 3.4 3.8 2 4.7 7.4 2.5 0.5 7.3 0 0 0 2.3 4
D D D KM JKM JKMN
Medline 27 8 12 19 7 13 7 6 14 2 9 0 1 0 0 0 15 11
2.5 2.5 3.5 3 1.8 3 2.7 1.9 9.4 1.1 3.2 0 2.6 0 0 0 2.6 2.5
IJKLMN K KM
Wallstreet Journal 23 9 6 15 9 7 9 7 0 0 4 1 0 19 0 0 17 7
2.2 3.1 1.7 2.3 2.1 1.7 3.4 2 0 0 1.3 0.5 0 14.2 0 0 2.8 1.5
HIJKLN
Google 21 2 13 14 7 17 2 2 4 4 8 2 1 2 0 1 11 11
2.1 0.6 3.8 2.3 1.7 4 0.8 0.6 2.3 2.3 2.5 1.1 2.6 1.4 1.7 3 1.8 2.4
A FG
Pubmed 21 4 14 18 4 12 7 2 18 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 11 10
2 1.2 4.3 2.8 0.9 2.9 2.6 0.5 11.7 0.6 0.6 0 2 0 0 0 1.9 2.3
AD G IJKLMN KM
Jstore 21 7 6 13 8 7 2 12 2 1 8 7 0 2 0 2 12 9
2 2.3 1.8 2 2 1.6 0.7 3.6 1.2 0.6 2.5 3.2 0.7 1.4 0 6.1 2 2
F
American Chemical Society 19 9 8 17 2 3 5 11 1 17 0 0 1 0 0 0 14 5
1.8 3.1 2.3 2.7 0.5 0.8 1.7 3.3 0.6 9.7 0 0 2.6 0 0 0 2.3 1.2
D D D E HJKLMN JKM
Psych info 14 2 4 6 9 6 4 5 0 0 13 1 0 0 0 0 7 8
1.4 0.6 1.1 0.9 2.1 1.3 1.4 1.5 0 0 4.5 0.5 0 0 0 0 1.1 1.7
HIKLM
IEEE 11 6 5 11 1 5 4 3 0 4 0 0 6 1 0 0 8 3
1.1 2 1.4 1.7 0.1 1.1 1.5 0.8 0 2.3 0 0 14.6 0.7 0 0 1.4 0.7
D D JK HIJKMN
Westlaw 8 1 7 8 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 0 4 4
0.7 0.2 2.1 1.2 0 0.9 1.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.7 65 0 0.6 0.9
AD D G HIJKLM
Findlaw 7 2 2 4 3 1 3 3 0 0 4 1 0 1 2 0 3 5
0.7 0.7 0.5 0.6 0.8 0.3 1 0.9 0 0 1.3 0.5 0 0.7 15 0 0.4 1.1
HIJKLM
Amazon.com 6 3 1 4 2 4 2 0 0 1 0 4 0 1 0 0 3 3
0.6 1.1 0.3 0.7 0.5 1 0.8 0 0 0.6 0 2.2 0 0.7 0 0 0.5 0.7
J
CDC 6 3 4 6 0 5 2 0 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 5
0.6 0.9 1.1 1 0 1 0.6 0 2.9 0 0.6 0 0 0 0 0 0.3 1
IKM
EBSCO 6 0 3 3 3 4 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 0 0 4 2
0.6 0 0.8 0.4 0.7 0.9 0.7 0 0 0 0.6 0.5 0 2.1 0 0 0.7 0.4
I
Cornell 5 0 2 2 3 0 4 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
0.5 0.1 0.7 0.4 0.7 0 1.5 0.3 1.8 1.1 0 0 0.7 0 1.7 0 0.1 1
E J J JKM P
AMS 5 4 1 5 0 1 2 2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1
0.5 1.3 0.3 0.8 0 0.2 0.7 0.6 0 2.9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.7 0.2
D HJKM
Ask.com 3 0 1 1 2 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 2
0.3 0 0.3 0.2 0.5 0.7 0 0 0 0.6 0 0 0.7 0.7 0 3 0.2 0.4
J
Business Week 2 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0
0.2 0 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.4 0 0 0.3 0
None 105 27 27 54 50 44 23 38 16 15 23 28 4 12 0 7 61 44
10 8.9 8.2 8.6 12.2 10.2 8.3 11.2 10.5 8.6 7.6 13.5 8.6 9.2 3.3 21.2 10.2 9.8
N
All others 691 223 230 453 238 280 196 215 98 131 205 124 28 86 3 15 413 278
66.1 74 68.9 71.3 58 64.6 70.8 64.1 64.9 74.9 69.4 60 64.9 66 31.7 45.5 69 62.1
D D D N HKLN N N N N Q
DK/REF 49 10 15 25 24 24 8 17 11 5 11 11 1 7 0 3 17 32
4.7 3.5 4.4 3.9 5.9 5.6 2.9 5.1 7.6 2.9 3.8 5.4 1.3 5 1.7 9.1 2.8 7.2
IL P

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