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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 7S: Tables 318-436. 
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 379

S7E_9. Where do you prefer to get course-related Online databases, data sets or data sources?
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 Online databases, data sets or data sources 565 0** 236 236 329 254 142 169 87* 61* 175* 109* 21* 68* 9* 35* 262 303
 for coursework
Access online (includes Internet, web sites, 364 0 162 162 203 148 99 117 55 41 109 66 13 48 7 24 162 203
 web sites, web searches, etc.) 64.5 0 68.7 68.7 61.5 58.3 70.1 69.1 63.6 67.2 62.4 60.8 63 71.2 76.4 68.6 61.6 67
E E
Borrow from or use in campus library 153 0 55 55 98 75 34 44 26 13 51 36 5 12 2 9 82 71
27.1 0 23.4 23.4 29.7 29.4 24 26.2 29.3 21.3 29 33 23.3 17.8 20 25.7 31.1 23.6
M
Faculty 8 0 3 3 5 6 0 2 0 1 4 1 0 1 0 1 4 4
1.4 0 1.2 1.2 1.6 2.4 0 1.3 0 1.6 2.2 1 1.4 1.4 0 2.9 1.5 1.4
Home 5 0 2 2 3 5 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 2 3
0.9 0 0.9 0.9 0.9 1.9 0 0.2 1 0 1.1 1 1.4 1.4 0 0 0.8 1
Personal holdings 3 0 3 3 0 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
0.6 0 1.4 1.4 0 0.8 0.9 0 0 1.6 1.1 0 1.4 0 1.8 0 0.5 0.7
HKM
Purchase from physical book store 3 0 1 1 2 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2
0.5 0 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.4 1.2 0.2 2 0 0 0 1.4 1.4 0 0 0.5 0.6
J
Borrow from or use in other libraries 3 0 1 1 2 2 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
0.5 0 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.7 0.6 0 1 0 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.9
Dorm room 3 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3
0.4 0 0 0 0.8 0.6 0 0.7 0 0 0 2.1 1.4 0 0 0 0 0.8
J
Colleagues 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.2 0 0.5 0.5 0 0.4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.4
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions  1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
library to borrow the source for you 0.2 0 0.4 0.4 0 0.4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.8 0 0.1 0.3
IJKM
Ask library to purchase source 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.2 0 0.4 0.4 0 0 0.7 0 0 1.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.4 0
Purchase from online bookstore 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
0.2 0 0 0 0.3 0.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.4 0 0 0 0.3
Access from course website 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.1 0 0 0 0.1 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.4 0 0 0 0.1 0
J
In class 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
Order from on demand document delivery service 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 0 1 1 3 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 2
0.8 0 0.5 0.5 0.9 0.4 0.8 1.3 1 1.6 0 1 1.4 0 0 2.9 0.8 0.7
J
DK/Refused 14 0 4 4 10 10 2 2 1 3 6 0 1 4 0 0 7 7
2.5 0 1.7 1.7 3 3.9 1.6 1.2 1 4.9 3.2 0 4.1 5.5 0 0 2.7 2.4
K K K

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