Table 4.
Use of information sources*
| Information Source | Frequently, No. (%) | Sometimes, No. (%) | Never, No. (%) | Total |
| Medline (via Ovid, PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Knowledge, or other database provider) |
196 (80.3) | 35 (14.3) | 13 (5.3) | 244 |
| Internet search engines (Google, Yahoo, Lycos, etc) |
186 (83.4) | 35 (15.7) | 2 (0.9) | 223 |
| Online journals (e-print, full-text archives of print journals, etc) | 184 (78.6) | 48 (20.5) | 2 (0.9) | 234 |
| Print journals | 114 (47.5) | 117 (48.8) | 9 (3.8) | 240 |
| Books from your personal collection | 103 (44.4) | 113 (48.7) | 16 (6.9) | 232 |
| Conferences, lectures, etc | 94 (40.7) | 134 (58.0) | 3 (1.3) | 231 |
| Researchers within my institution | 89 (38.7) | 115 (50.0) | 26 (11.3) | 230 |
| Researchers from other institutions | 70 (30.7) | 143 (62.7) | 15 (6.6) | 228 |
| Books from/in libraries | 61 (26.3) | 137 (59.1) | 34 (14.7) | 232 |
| Bibliographic databases such as… Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews or other Cochrane Library components |
61 (26.5) | 93 (40.4) | 76 (33.0) | 230 |
| Newsletters | 60 (26.0) | 127 (55.0) | 44 (19.0) | 231 |
| National or local media (newspapers, television, etc) | 51 (22.0) | 114 (49.1) | 67 (28.9) | 232 |
| Other information source: which? | 48 (60) | 32 (40) | N/A | 80 |
| IEEE Xplore | 20 (9.4) | 41 (19.3) | 151 (71.2) | 212 |
*Responses to the following question: “How often do you use the following information sources when trying to find professional information?”