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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 178

R7D_17. When you are doing research, where do you go to get News?
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 News for research 207 116* 90* 207 0** 91* 62* 54* 26** 24** 77* 41* 9** 24** 5** 0* 147 60*
Access online (includes Internet, web sites,  153 91 62 153 0 66 46 41 22 16 58 26 7 20 4 0 111 42
web sites, web searches, etc.) 74.2 78.1 69.1 74.2 0 73.3 75 74.7 83.3 66.7 75.6 62.2 80 84.6 78.6 0 75.8 70.2
Borrow from or use in campus library 102 57 45 102 0 46 33 23 11 17 36 25 3 7 2 0 69 32
49.2 49 49.5 49.2 0 51.1 53.1 41.6 43.3 70.8 46.3 59.5 36.7 30.8 46.4 0 47.1 54.3
Personal holdings 15 13 1 15 0 3 5 7 2 4 4 1 0 4 0 0 14 1
7.1 11.5 1.4 7.1 0 3 8.4 12.4 6.7 16.7 4.9 2.7 3.3 15.4 0 0 9.3 1.7
B
Borrow from or use in other libraries 10 6 4 10 0 2 4 4 0 1 6 2 0 1 0 0 10 0
5.1 5.3 4.7 5.1 0 2.4 7.2 6.9 0 4.2 7.3 5.4 3.3 3.8 7.1 0 7 0.3
Printed material 10 9 1 10 0 4 2 4 0 1 4 2 0 3 0 0 10 0
4.9 7.6 1.4 4.9 0 4.3 3.8 7 0 4.2 4.9 5.4 3.3 11.5 0 0 6.9 0
Interlibrary loan, asking someone in your institutions library to 5 4 1 5 0 2 1 2 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 4 2
 borrow the source for you 2.6 3.7 1.2 2.6 0 2.7 1.8 3.4 3.3 0 0 5.4 3.3 7.7 3.6 0 2.4 3.1
Order from on demand document delivery service 4 4 0 4 0 2 0 2 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 1
2 3.6 0 2 0 2.3 0 3.9 0 4.2 2.4 2.7 0 0 3.6 0 2.2 1.7
Colleague 3 3 0 3 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 1
1.6 2.9 0 1.6 0 1.6 1.5 1.8 0 4.2 0 2.7 3.3 3.8 0 0 1.5 1.9
Purchase from physical book store 3 3 0 3 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 0
1.6 2.8 0 1.6 0 1.2 1.6 2.1 0 4.2 0 5.4 0 0 0 0 2.2 0
Meetings/conference 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
0.9 1.6 0 0.9 0 0 0 3.5 0 0 2.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.1
Faculty 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0.5 0 1.1 0.5 0 0 1.6 0 0 4.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.7 0
Office 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.4 0.8 0 0.4 0 0 0 1.6 3.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.5
E-journals 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.1 0 0.3 0.1 0 0 0.5 0 0 0 0 0 3.3 0 0 0 0.2 0
Source 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.1 0.1 0 0.1 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.6 0 0.1 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
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
Purchase from online bookstore 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 21 14 7 21 0 7 7 8 3 2 8 7 1 1 1 0 12 9
10.4 12.1 8.1 10.4 0 7.2 12 13.9 10 8.3 9.8 16.2 6.7 3.8 21.4 0 8.4 15.2
DK/Refused 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.5 1 0 0.5 0 0 0 2.1 0 0 0 2.7 0 0 0 0 0 1.9

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