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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 606
Q23b. Of all the information that you use on the Internet, what one source do you
����� consider to be the most reliable and credible?� Why?
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 102 15 47 63 40 53 25 24 11 13 28 27 6 11 0 6 52 51
9.8 5 14.2 9.8 9.7 12.2 9.1 7.1 7 7.4 9.6 13 13.9 8.5 3.3 18.2 8.6 11.3
A A G HIN
Institution Website 51 5 17 22 29 24 14 14 4 6 17 11 4 7 0 2 23 28
4.8 1.6 5 3.4 7 5.4 4.9 4 2.3 3.4 5.7 5.4 9.3 5 3.3 6.1 3.8 6.2
A AC HI
LexisNexis 31 6 10 17 15 4 13 14 1 0 15 6 1 7 3 0 16 15
3 2.1 3.1 2.6 3.5 1 4.8 4.1 0.6 0 5.1 2.7 1.3 5 25 0 2.7 3.4
E E HI I I HI HIJKLM
NY Times 21 7 1 8 13 3 5 13 0 4 8 8 0 2 0 0 16 6
2 2.4 0.3 1.3 3.2 0.7 1.8 3.9 0 2.3 2.5 3.8 0 1.4 1.7 0 2.6 1.3
B B E HL H
CNN 20 3 1 4 16 7 4 8 0 4 4 4 1 6 0 1 14 5
1.9 1 0.3 0.6 3.8 1.6 1.5 2.5 0 2.3 1.3 2.2 1.3 4.3 1.7 3 2.4 1.2
ABC H H H
Yahoo 16 0 0 0 16 8 3 5 3 0 9 0 0 3 0 1 10 6
1.5 0 0.1 0 3.9 1.9 1.1 1.4 1.8 0 3.2 0 0 2.1 1.7 3 1.7 1.3
ABC IK IK IK
Psychinfo 15 4 4 8 8 8 4 4 0 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 8 8
1.4 1.2 1.1 1.2 1.8 1.7 1.4 1.1 0 0 5.1 0 0 0 0 0 1.3 1.7
HIKLM
Medline 14 4 8 11 3 4 8 3 13 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 7 7
1.3 1.2 2.4 1.8 0.6 0.8 2.9 0.8 8.8 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1.2 1.5
IJKLMN IJKM
Web of Science 13 5 6 10 3 7 1 6 4 3 4 1 1 0 0 0 4 10
1.3 1.5 1.7 1.6 0.7 1.6 0.2 1.7 2.9 1.7 1.3 0.5 2.6 0 0 0 0.6 2.2
M KM P
American Chemical Society 12 5 6 11 1 2 5 5 1 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 3
1.2 1.6 1.9 1.8 0.2 0.5 1.9 1.5 0.6 6.3 0 0 0.7 0 0 0 1.5 0.7
D D HJKLM J
Pubmed 12 3 9 12 0 6 5 1 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 6
1.1 0.9 2.8 1.9 0 1.3 2 0.3 7 0.6 0 0 0.7 0 0 0 0.9 1.4
D D IJKLM J
Cenus 12 5 5 10 2 5 3 4 1 0 8 2 0 1 0 0 10 1
1.1 1.6 1.5 1.5 0.5 1.1 1.1 1.1 0.6 0 2.5 1.1 0 0.7 0 0 1.7 0.3
Q
Google 11 1 3 4 6 5 1 4 0 4 4 1 1 1 0 0 7 4
1 0.4 1 0.7 1.5 1.3 0.4 1.2 0 2.3 1.3 0.5 2 0.7 0 0 1.1 0.9
H
Wall Street Journal 10 1 2 3 7 1 3 6 0 1 2 1 0 6 0 0 8 2
0.9 0.3 0.6 0.4 1.7 0.2 1 1.7 0 0.6 0.6 0.5 0 4.3 0 0 1.3 0.5
E HIJKL
Government Websites (unspecified) 9 4 3 7 2 0 7 2 2 2 0 3 0 2 0 0 7 3
0.9 1.4 0.9 1.1 0.5 0 2.6 0.6 1.2 1.1 0 1.6 0.7 1.4 0 0 1.1 0.6
E J
Search Engines (general) 8 0 0 0 8 4 0 4 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 3 4 4
0.8 0 0 0 2 0.9 0 1.2 0 0 1.3 0.5 0.7 0 0 9.1 0.7 0.9
ABC
Westlaw 6 1 5 5 1 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 2 4
0.6 0.2 1.4 0.8 0.2 0.8 0.9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.4 40 0 0.4 0.8
HIJKLM
E-Journals 5 3 0 3 2 2 2 1 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4
0.5 0.9 0.1 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.7 0.3 1.2 1.1 0 0 0.7 0.7 0 0 0.2 0.8
J
IEEE 5 2 3 5 0 2 2 1 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 2
0.5 0.7 0.8 0.8 0 0.5 0.6 0.3 0 1.1 0 0 6.6 0 0 0 0.5 0.4
HIJKM
Databases (unspecified) 5 2 3 5 0 2 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 4 1
0.5 0.6 0.9 0.8 0 0.5 0.3 0.5 1.2 0 0.6 0 0.7 0.7 0 0 0.6 0.3
Findlaw 4 2 0 2 1 0 2 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 1
0.4 0.7 0.1 0.3 0.4 0 0.9 0.4 0 0 0.6 0.5 0 0 6.7 0 0.4 0.3
HIJKLM
CDC 4 2 1 3 1 1 2 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
0.3 0.6 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.6 0.3 2.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.1 0.6
IJK
Proquest 3 0 3 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0
0.3 0 0.9 0.5 0 0.1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.7 2.1 0 0 0.5 0
J IJK
None 87 36 23 59 28 43 23 21 14 16 17 27 4 5 1 4 56 31
8.3 12 6.8 9.2 6.9 9.8 8.3 6.4 9.4 9.1 5.7 13 8.6 3.5 6.7 12.1 9.4 6.8
BD M M JM M
All others 470 152 156 308 162 198 121 151 70 94 130 83 18 62 1 12 280 190
45 50.3 46.8 48.5 39.6 45.7 43.9 45 46.8 53.7 43.9 40 41.7 47.5 8.3 36.4 46.8 42.5
D D N KLN N N N N
Don't Know/ Refused 101 36 17 53 48 41 17 42 10 12 28 30 3 14 0 4 46 55
9.6 11.9 5.2 8.4 11.6 9.5 6.2 12.6 6.4 6.9 9.6 14.6 6 10.6 1.7 12.1 7.7 12.2
B B F HILN P

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