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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 7R [part 1]: Tables 62-118. 
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 118

R7a_9. When you are doing research, how do you find information about Online databases, data sets or data sources?
       That is, as you gather references and citations for your research, but
       before you actually try to get the specific information?
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 - Responsibility is Research 324 162 162 324 0** 143 131 50* 49* 63* 98* 62* 15* 33* 5** 0* 200 124*
Ask someone to assist you 104 64 40 104 0 43 39 22 14 24 26 17 4 17 2 0 58 45
32 39.2 24.7 32 0 29.7 29.8 44.3 28.6 38.1 26.9 27.3 27.5 51.4 32.1 0 29.1 36.6
B HJKL
Go to print sources 98 71 26 98 0 28 42 28 16 27 17 20 5 11 2 0 72 25
30.1 44.2 16.1 30.1 0 19.7 31.8 55.8 32.1 42.9 17.3 32.7 33.3 34.3 32.1 0 36.1 20.5
B E EF J J Q
Go online 287 147 140 287 0 122 117 49 47 56 83 57 14 27 4 0 181 106
88.7 90.7 86.7 88.7 0 84.9 89.3 98 94.6 88.9 84.6 92.7 92.2 82.9 85.7 0 90.6 85.6
E

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