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Fig. 3. Sources used for course-related research. Results are ranked from most frequent to least
frequent resources students used for class-related research. Responses of “almost always”, and
“often” have been combined.

Fig. 4. Use of search engines for course - related research by discipline. Responses of (“almost
always” and “often”) and (“rare” and “never”) have been combined

3.3 Resource Preference: Library vs. Internet

As revealed above in Figure 3, respondents used Google and other search engines
more frequently than they used university library resources for their class projects.
This finding raises the question: what drives this preference? In order to answer this