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Dimensions and use of the scholarly information environment.
Question 8R: Tables 181-188. 
Digital Library Federation.
Copyright, 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources.

Table 182

R8a2. What percent of the information that you use for your research comes from another source?
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 1563 811 752 1563 0** 699 593 271 269 320 491 239 79 148 18 0* 1023 540
25% or less 823 357 466 823 0 398 325 101 163 147 271 124 39 72 8 0 509 314
52.7 44.1 62 52.7 0 56.9 54.8 37.2 60.5 45.9 55.2 52.1 49.6 48.4 43.7 0 49.8 58.1
A G G ILMN IN P
26% - 50% 332 197 135 332 0 153 118 61 59 61 103 53 20 33 3 0 228 104
21.3 24.3 18 21.3 0 21.9 19.9 22.7 21.9 19.1 21.1 22.1 25 22.6 18.4 0 22.3 19.3
B
51% - 75% 222 131 91 222 0 86 84 52 27 56 73 36 10 17 3 0 153 69
14.2 16.2 12.1 14.2 0 12.3 14.2 19.1 10.1 17.5 14.9 15 12.5 11.3 16.5 0 14.9 12.8
B E H
76% - 100% 178 122 57 178 0 60 65 54 20 54 43 24 9 25 4 0 128 51
11.4 15 7.5 11.4 0 8.6 10.9 19.9 7.5 16.9 8.8 9.9 11 17 20.4 0 12.5 9.4
B EF HJK HJK HJKL
Don't Know 7 4 3 7 0 3 1 3 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 0 5 2
0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0 0.4 0.2 1.1 0 0.6 0 0.9 1.8 0.6 1 0 0.5 0.3
HJ HJ
Median 23.26 35.12 18.11 23.26 0 20.11 22.51 41.83 19.44 29.29 22.4 23.38 24.38 25.83 36.67 0 24.97 19.9
EF J J HIJKM HIJK HIJKLM
Mean 35.06 40.7 28.98 35.06 0 31.21 34.54 46.24 29.81 40.88 32.95 35.52 35.43 37.47 41.32 0 37.01 31.38
B EF HJKL H H H HJ Q
Standard Deviation 28.35 28.94 26.4 28.35 0 26.73 28.28 29.75 26.62 30.64 27.18 27.66 27.45 28.91 33.58 0 28.45 27.81
Standard Error 0.7 1.01 0.93 0.7 0 1 1.11 1.86 1.52 1.72 1.68 1.9 1.68 2.3 3.32 0 0.85 1.24

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