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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 428

S7E_16. Where do you prefer to get course-related Dissertations?
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 Dissertations for coursework 243 0** 130* 130* 113* 107* 66* 70* 26** 29** 94* 59* 11* 18** 1** 5* 114* 129*
Borrow from or use in campus library 135 0 72 72 63 55 39 41 11 15 53 40 6 7 1 1 67 67
55.5 0 55.3 55.3 55.6 51.1 59.9 57.9 44.8 51.7 56 67.9 57.9 42.1 37.5 20 58.9 52.4
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  86 0 47 47 39 42 22 22 10 12 34 15 3 8 1 4 38 48
web sites, web searches, etc.) 35.4 0 36.3 36.3 34.4 39.6 33.4 30.9 37.9 41.4 36 24.5 26.3 47.4 50 80 32.9 37.6
Faculty 9 0 3 3 6 2 1 6 2 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 4 5
3.5 0 2 2 5.3 2 1.1 8.2 6.9 0 4 1.9 7.9 5.3 12.5 0 3.1 3.9
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions 3 0 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 2
 library to borrow the source for you 1.3 0 1.5 1.5 1 0.8 1.7 1.6 3.4 0 0 3.8 0 0 0 0 1 1.6
Borrow from or use in other libraries 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
0.9 0 1.7 1.7 0 1.8 0.4 0 0 0 2 0 2.6 0 0 0 0.3 1.5
Purchase from online bookstore 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
0.8 0 0 0 1.7 1.8 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.5
Purchase from physical book store 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.1 0 0 0 0.3 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.6 0 0 0 0.3 0
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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
Ask library to purchase source 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
Home 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
Colleagues 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
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
Dorm room 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
Personal holdings 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 2 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1
0.7 0 1.4 1.4 0 0.9 1.3 0 3.4 0 0 0 0 5.3 0 0 0.8 0.7
DK/Refused 4 0 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 1
1.8 0 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.8 2.1 1.4 3.4 6.9 0 1.9 2.6 0 0 0 2.8 0.9
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