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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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