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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 7R [part 2]: Tables 119-180. 
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 172

R7E_16. Where do you prefer to get research-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 research 290 140 150 290 0** 133 121* 37* 36* 68* 100* 49* 15* 20** 2** 0* 193 97*
Borrow from or use in campus library 113 40 73 113 0 60 44 9 9 20 47 21 6 8 1 0 68 45
38.8 28.6 48.3 38.8 0 45.2 36 24.4 24.4 29.4 47.2 43.2 43.1 40.9 36.4 0 35.2 45.9
A G H
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  74 36 39 74 0 34 30 11 14 16 23 10 3 7 1 0 50 24
web sites, web searches, etc.) 25.6 25.6 25.6 25.6 0 25.8 24.5 28.9 39 23.5 22.6 20.5 23.5 36.4 36.4 0 25.9 25
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions library to  48 39 10 48 0 14 23 11 5 12 15 13 1 2 0 0 36 12
borrow the source for you 16.7 27.6 6.5 16.7 0 10.6 19.1 30.7 14.6 17.6 15.1 27.3 3.9 9.1 9.1 0 18.6 12.8
B E L L
Borrow from or use in other libraries 9 2 7 9 0 5 4 0 0 1 6 1 1 0 0 0 5 4
3 1.6 4.4 3 0 3.7 3.2 0 0 1.5 5.7 2.3 5.9 0 9.1 0 2.5 4
H
Colleague 7 4 3 7 0 3 3 1 1 4 0 1 0 1 0 0 5 2
2.4 2.8 2 2.4 0 2.3 2.5 2.5 2.4 5.9 0 2.3 0 4.5 0 0 2.6 2.1
J
Order from on demand document delivery service 6 6 0 6 0 2 2 2 1 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 5 1
2.1 4.3 0 2.1 0 1.5 1.8 5.1 2.4 0 3.8 2.3 2 0 0 0 2.7 0.9
B
Source 5 4 1 5 0 3 2 0 1 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 5 0
1.8 3.1 0.7 1.8 0 2.3 1.6 0.8 2.4 2.9 0 0 3.9 9.1 0 0 2.8 0
JK
Faculty 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
0.7 0 1.3 0.7 0 1.5 0 0 0 2.9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Ask library to purchase source 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
0.6 0 1.3 0.6 0 1.4 0 0 0 0 1.9 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Office 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
0.4 0 0.7 0.4 0 0 0.9 0 0 0 0 0 5.9 0 9.1 0 0.2 0.6
HIJK
Purchase from online bookstore 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.1 0.2 0 0.1 0 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0.2 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
Meetings/conference 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
Purchase from physical book store 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
E-journals 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 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
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
Printed material 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 17 8 10 17 0 5 9 3 4 8 4 0 1 0 0 0 10 7
6 5.4 6.5 6 0 3.9 7.7 7.5 12.2 11.8 3.8 0 7.8 0 0 0 5.1 7.6
K K K
DK/Refused 5 1 4 5 0 2 3 0 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 1
1.8 0.8 2.7 1.8 0 1.7 2.5 0 2.4 4.4 0 2.3 2 0 0 0 2.2 1

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