MELVYL BIOSIS DATABASES TELNET STATISTICS
               Time period: 01/26/02 through 02/01/02

1.0  SUMMARY STATISTICS
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1.1  Total sessions:
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Zero results may indicate no access to the database

Location             Library              Remote               Total
________             _______              ______               _____
Berkeley                  37                 300                 337
Davis                    204                   0                 204
Irvine                    22                   0                  22
Los Angeles                0                  69                  69
Riverside                  1                  29                  30
San Diego                 12                  69                  81
San Francisco             39                   0                  39
Santa Barbara              2                  26                  28
Santa Cruz                 0                  33                  33
Lawrence Berkeley          0                   2                   2
Lawrence Livermore         0                  11                  11
Los Alamos                 0                   0                   0
Other - UC                 3                  16                  19
Other-Network UC         n/a                 433                 433
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                         320                 988               1,308


Relative use of BIOSIS databases:

                       Number of     Number of        Number of
                       Sessions      FIND commands    Records Displayed
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BIOSIS                    1,157            3,676                 29,662
BIO88                       151              354                  1,797


Per hour usage:
          Time         Sessions            Finds      Records Displayed
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    12-2  a.m.               17               57                    538
     2-4  a.m.               18               23                    151
     4-6  a.m.               10               23                     75
     6-8  a.m.               37               91                    573
     8-10 a.m.              186              553                  4,384
    10-12 a.m.              249              669                  4,524
    12-2  p.m.              232              704                  5,130
     2-4  p.m.              251              762                  6,381
     4-6  p.m.              173              646                  4,879
     6-8  p.m.               77              266                  2,235
     8-10 p.m.               33              124                  1,453
    10-12 p.m.               25              112                  1,136
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        Total:            1,308            4,030                 31,459

1.2  FIND commands
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Number of FIND commands issued by location:
Location             Library              Remote               Total
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Berkeley                 117                 920               1,037
Davis                    813                   0                 813
Irvine                    60                   0                  60
Los Angeles                0                 270                 270
Riverside                  3                 147                 150
San Diego                 29                 199                 228
San Francisco            162                   0                 162
Santa Barbara              0                  96                  96
Santa Cruz                 0                 103                 103
Lawrence Berkeley          0                   6                   6
Lawrence Livermore         0                  59                  59
Los Alamos                 0                   0                   0
Other - UC                 7                  50                  57
Other-Network UC         n/a                 989                 989
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                       1,191               2,839               4,030

1.3  Records displayed
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Number of Records Displayed by location:

Location             Library              Remote               Total
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Berkeley               1,074               8,134               9,208
Davis                  8,116                   0               8,116
Irvine                   275                   0                 275
Los Angeles                0               2,949               2,949
Riverside                 32                 921                 953
San Diego                 68               1,792               1,860
San Francisco            945                   0                 945
Santa Barbara              0                 471                 471
Santa Cruz                 0                 946                 946
Lawrence Berkeley          0                   5                   5
Lawrence Livermore         0                 215                 215
Los Alamos                 0                   0                   0
Other - UC               128                 252                 380
Other-Network UC         n/a               5,136               5,136
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                      10,638              20,821              31,459

1.4  Response time
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Search response time from receipt of command at
DLA until transmission of response:
  Average in seconds                                         1.0
  Standard deviation in seconds                              3.6

Display response time from receipt of command at
DLA until transmission of a complete screen:
  Average in seconds                                         0.1
  Standard deviation in seconds                              0.1


2.0  BIOSIS Databases Detailed Statistics
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Median session length (minutes:seconds)                    11:01
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   15:46
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                354:50
Average number of searches completed per session             3.1
Retrievals per search - median                               7.0
Retrievals per search - average                           1070.3
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                 11290
Percent of searches completed with 0 results                23.7%

Percent of searches entered that are long                    2.6%
Percent of long searches completed
  (includes partial results)                                78.6%

Commands entered, by type, excluding errors:
                                                   Total     Percentage
                                              __________     __________
  FIND                                             3,379          29.8%
  DISPLAY (excluding automatic displays)           4,283          37.8%
  BROWSE                                               0           0.0%
  HELP                                               126           1.1%
  EXPLAIN                                            103           0.9%
  SET/RESET                                          633           5.6%
  SHOW                                                28           0.2%
  ADD ON (AND, OR, AND NOT)                          651           5.7%
  LOGON or LOGOFF                                  1,490          13.2%
  COMMENT                                              1           0.0%
  SAVE                                               262           2.3%
  USE                                                  1           0.0%
  OTHER                                              371           3.3%
FINDs completed:                                    RETRIEVALS PER NON-
                          TOTAL    ZERO RESULTS    ZERO RESULT SEARCHES
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                           % of            % of
                            all         all for                    Std.
                     No.  FINDs     No.   Index  Median    Avg.    Dev.
                  ______ ______  ______ _______  ______ _______ _______
  By index:
  PERSONAL AUTHOR  1,296  33.4%     279   21.5%      22   168.6   777.7
  TITLE WORD         750  19.3%     277   36.9%       6   952.8 10621.1
  EXACT TITLE         27   0.7%      17   63.0%       1     4.5    10.7
  KEYWORD          1,162  29.9%     231   19.9%      38  2573.0 18486.3
  JOURNAL            159   4.1%      60   37.7%     409  5459.2 14402.4
  EXACT JOURNAL       54   1.4%      26   48.1%   1,149  3546.0  5512.3
  SOURCE               0   0.0%       0    0.0%       0     0.0     0.0
  CONFERENCE           0   0.0%       0    0.0%       0     0.0     0.0
  BIOSYS NAMES         0   0.0%       0    0.0%       0     0.0     0.0
  BIOSYS CODES         2   0.1%       1   50.0%       4     4.0     0.0
  SUPERTAXA            6   0.2%       0    0.0%      14   446.8  1069.5
  MAJ CONCEPT CDES     0   0.0%       0    0.0%       0     0.0     0.0
  CONCEPT CODES        3   0.1%       0    0.0%       4     9.7    11.6
  PUBLICATION TYPE     0   0.0%       0    0.0%       0     0.0     0.0
  DATE                11   0.3%       1    9.1%      79    73.2    67.4
  LANGUAGE             1   0.0%       0    0.0%       7     7.0     0.0
  ADDED                0   0.0%       0    0.0%       0     0.0     0.0
  ARTICLE              0   0.0%       0    0.0%       0     0.0     0.0
  AUTHOR AFFIL.       36   0.9%       9   25.0%      30  2200.1  9005.1
  ACCESSION NO.        6   0.2%       0    0.0%       1     1.0     0.0
  ISSN                 0   0.0%       0    0.0%       0     0.0     0.0
  ISBN                 0   0.0%       0    0.0%       0     0.0     0.0
  PERIODICAL         189   4.9%      27   14.3%       4   251.9  2581.7
  EXACT PE            41   1.1%       0    0.0%       2    16.3    56.3
  RPE                  0   0.0%       0    0.0%       0     0.0     0.0
  XRP                  0   0.0%       0    0.0%       0     0.0     0.0
  COMMENTS             0   0.0%       0    0.0%       0     0.0     0.0
  Other indexes      141   3.6%      29   20.6%      21  3020.0 30422.6

                                                    RETRIEVALS PER NON-
                          TOTAL    ZERO RESULTS    ZERO RESULT SEARCHES
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                           % of            % of
                            all         all for                    Std.
                     No.  FINDs     No.   Index  Median    Avg.    Dev.
                  ______ ______  ______ _______  ______ _______ _______
  By number of indexes:
  Multiple           500  14.9%     163   32.6%       7    68.9   289.4
  Single           2,851  85.1%     621   21.8%      28  1817.5 15013.3

BROWSEs completed:                                  RETRIEVALS PER NON-
                          TOTAL    ZERO RESULTS    ZERO RESULT SEARCHES
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                           % of            % of
                            all         all for                    Std.
                     No. BROWSEs    No.   Index  Median    Avg.    Dev.
                  ______ _______ ______ _______  ______ _______ _______
  By index:
  CONCEPT CODES        0   0.0%       0    0.0%      0.0    0.0     0.0



DISPLAY commands, by type, excluding  automatic displays:
  REVIEW                                                     4.1%
  SHORT                                                     81.0%
  LONG                                                       1.9%
  TAGS                                                       0.8%
  FIELDS                                                     3.8%
  BROWSE REVIEW                                              0.0%
  BROWSE SHORT                                               0.0%
  BROWSE LONG                                                0.0%
  PERIODICALS                                                6.1%
  COMMENTS                                                   0.0%
  Other                                                      2.4%

2.2  Error, EXPLAIN and HELP statistics
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Percent of commands that contained errors                8.1%

Ten most frequent errors:
  1. NS command - no next screen                        32.3%
  2. First word of command is invalid                   24.9%
  3. FIND command with invalid index name               10.9%
  4. NS of SHOW/EXP command-no next screen               5.3%
  5. DISPLAY command - no FIND results                   3.4%
  6. PS command - no previous screen                     2.7%
  7. DATE search with unrecognized word                  2.7%
  8. DISPLAY command contains invalid word               2.5%
  9. Valid command at an inappropriate time              1.4%
 10. Index invalid in current database                   1.3%
 11. All others                                         12.5%

Ten most frequent EXPLAIN requests:
  1. GUIDE                                              22.3%
  2. LOCATE (BIO DB)                                    16.5%
  3. FIND                                               11.7%
  4. COMMANDS                                            7.8%
  5. ADDON SEARCH                                        5.8%
  6. BIOSIS DATABASE                                     3.9%
  7. LIMIT                                               3.9%
  8. MAIL                                                3.9%
  9. Unrecognized term                                   3.9%
 10. DATE                                                1.9%
 11. All others                                         18.4%

Ten most frequent HELP situations:
  1. Help requested from SET DB command                 19.2%
  2. First word of command is invalid                   17.9%
  3. FIND command with invalid index name               13.1%
  4. DISPLAY command - middle of >1 screen              10.0%
  5. DISPLAY command-first of >1 screen                  5.7%
  6. FIND command retrieves >1 book                      4.8%
  7. 3 HELP commands issued from same code               3.9%
  8. DISPLAY command-complete in one screen              3.5%
  9. FIND command with zero results                      3.1%
 10. NS command - no next screen                         2.2%
 11. All others                                         16.6%

Ten most frequent SHOW requests:
  1. HISTORY                                            81.8%
  2. SEARCH                                             13.6%
  3. SETTINGS                                            4.5%
 11. All others                                          0.0%
BIOmm/dd bio      MELVYL BIOSIS DATABASES TELNET STATISTICS (weekly)