MELVYL PSYCINFO DATABASE TELNET STATISTICS
               Time period: 04/07/01 through 04/13/01

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                  63                 183                 246
Davis                    174                   0                 174
Irvine                    49                   0                  49
Los Angeles                3                 162                 165
Riverside                 10                  49                  59
San Diego                 12                 124                 136
San Francisco             72                   0                  72
Santa Barbara              2                  50                  52
Santa Cruz                 6                  47                  53
Lawrence Berkeley          0                   0                   0
Lawrence Livermore         0                   0                   0
Los Alamos                 0                   0                   0
Other - UC                 4                  39                  43
Other-Network UC         n/a                 156                 156
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                         395                 810               1,205


Per hour usage:
          Time         Sessions            Finds      Records Displayed
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    12-2  a.m.               14               27                    383
     2-4  a.m.               10               39                    385
     4-6  a.m.               82              581                  2,601
     6-8  a.m.               30              101                    808
     8-10 a.m.              115              428                  3,572
    10-12 a.m.              209              673                  5,532
    12-2  p.m.              199              878                  7,039
     2-4  p.m.              241              905                 11,917
     4-6  p.m.              147              616                  6,298
     6-8  p.m.               72              374                  3,963
     8-10 p.m.               52              284                  2,074
    10-12 p.m.               34              123                  1,021
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        Total:            1,205            5,029                 45,593

1.2  FIND commands
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Number of FIND commands issued by location:
Location             Library              Remote               Total
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Berkeley                 275                 728               1,003
Davis                    827                   0                 827
Irvine                   125                   0                 125
Los Angeles               12                 685                 697
Riverside                 26                 184                 210
San Diego                 75                 441                 516
San Francisco            327                   0                 327
Santa Barbara              2                 314                 316
Santa Cruz                28                 311                 339
Lawrence Berkeley          0                   0                   0
Lawrence Livermore         0                   0                   0
Los Alamos                 0                   0                   0
Other - UC                10                 105                 115
Other-Network UC         n/a                 554                 554
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                       1,707               3,322               5,029

1.3  Records displayed
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Number of Records Displayed by location:

Location             Library              Remote               Total
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Berkeley               3,456               6,758              10,214
Davis                  4,396                   0               4,396
Irvine                 1,361                   0               1,361
Los Angeles              164               7,492               7,656
Riverside                466               1,251               1,717
San Diego                356               3,014               3,370
San Francisco          7,311                   0               7,311
Santa Barbara              2               2,771               2,773
Santa Cruz                88               1,594               1,682
Lawrence Berkeley          0                   0                   0
Lawrence Livermore         0                   0                   0
Los Alamos                 0                   0                   0
Other - UC                23                 807                 830
Other-Network UC         n/a               4,283               4,283
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                      17,623              27,970              45,593

1.4  Response time
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Search response time from receipt of command at
DLA until transmission of response:
  Average in seconds                                         1.2
  Standard deviation in seconds                              7.7

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  PSYCINFO Database Detailed Statistics
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Median session length (minutes:seconds)                     6:55
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   13:38
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                490:53
Average number of searches completed per session             4.1
Retrievals per search - median                               5.0
Retrievals per search - average                            625.3
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                6863.4
Percent of searches completed with 0 results                25.7%

Percent of searches entered that are long                    3.4%
Percent of long searches completed
  (includes partial results)                                67.8%

Commands entered, by type, excluding errors:
                                                   Total     Percentage
                                              __________     __________
  FIND                                             4,507          31.1%
  DISPLAY (excluding automatic displays)           5,824          40.2%
  BROWSE                                              20           0.1%
  SELECT                                               2           0.0%
  HELP                                               141           1.0%
  EXPLAIN                                            157           1.1%
  SET/RESET                                          442           3.1%
  SHOW                                                32           0.2%
  ADD ON (AND, OR, AND NOT)                          522           3.6%
  LOGON or LOGOFF                                  1,802          12.4%
  COMMENT                                              0           0.0%
  SAVE                                               646           4.5%
  USE                                                  1           0.0%
  OTHER                                              405           2.8%
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  1,853  30.9%     308   16.6%      12    50.5   130.3
  TITLE WORD         452   7.5%     147   32.5%      10   214.0  1523.2
  EXACT TITLE         74   1.2%      29   39.2%       2    13.8    35.7
  JOURNAL            183   3.0%      50   27.3%     653  7133.1 32733.4
  EXACT JOURNAL      129   2.1%      27   20.9%     167  1147.8  2004.4
  SUBJECT            270   4.5%     148   54.8%     373  3340.1  7715.3
  EXACT SUBJECT      506   8.4%     341   67.4%       3   141.6   885.9
  KEYWORD          1,221  20.3%     226   18.5%      29  1451.7  8730.0
  FORM/PUB TYPE        7   0.1%       0    0.0%      11    30.6    40.9
  DATE               815  13.6%     372   45.6%       4  1412.4 11562.1
  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.        2   0.0%       2    100%       0     0.0     0.0
  CONFERENCE           0   0.0%       0    0.0%       0     0.0     0.0
  LANGUAGE             5   0.1%       0    0.0%      11    16.8    22.3
  ISSN                 0   0.0%       0    0.0%       0     0.0     0.0
  ISBN                 0   0.0%       0    0.0%       0     0.0     0.0
  ID NUMBER           59   1.0%       0    0.0%       1     1.0     0.0
  PERIODICAL          63   1.0%      14   22.2%       4    26.7    52.5
  EXACT PE            15   0.2%       2   13.3%       2     6.5     8.4
  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      350   5.8%     167   47.7%       2    79.7   437.2

                                                    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         1,174  26.3%     483   41.1%       5   951.5  9283.8
  Single           3,288  73.7%     687   20.9%      25   924.9  8171.9

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:
  SUBJECT             20   100%      12   60.0%       2     3.4     4.4
  EXACT SUBJECT        0   0.0%       0    0.0%       0     0.0     0.0



DISPLAY commands, by type, excluding  automatic displays:
  REVIEW                                                     2.0%
  SHORT                                                     87.7%
  LONG                                                       0.6%
  TAGS                                                       1.7%
  FIELDS                                                     4.0%
  BROWSE REVIEW                                              0.1%
  BROWSE LONG                                                0.1%
  PERIODICALS                                                2.1%
  COMMENTS                                                   0.0%
  Other                                                      1.7%

2.2  Error, EXPLAIN and HELP statistics
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Percent of commands that contained errors                9.9%

Ten most frequent errors:
  1. NS command - no next screen                        26.2%
  2. DISPLAY command - no FIND results                  22.2%
  3. First word of command is invalid                   21.8%
  4. FIND command with invalid index name                7.7%
  5. DISPLAY command contains invalid word               4.1%
  6. PS command - no previous screen                     3.9%
  7. Valid command at an inappropriate time              2.3%
  8. Search term missing from search command             1.4%
  9. NS of SHOW/EXP command-no next screen               1.1%
 10. Command contains escape or arrow key                0.9%
 11. All others                                          8.4%

Ten most frequent EXPLAIN requests:
  1. LOCATE (INS/PSY DBS)                               21.0%
  2. GUIDE                                              19.7%
  3. FIND (PSY DB)                                      10.2%
  4. COMMANDS (ABI/PSY DBS)                              8.3%
  5. Unrecognized term                                   5.7%
  6. INDEXES (PSY DB)                                    4.5%
  7. DISPLAY (INS/PSY DBS)                               3.2%
  8. MAIL                                                2.5%
  9. LOCATIONS                                           1.9%
 10. SEARCH (PSY DB)                                     1.9%
 11. All others                                         21.0%

Ten most frequent HELP situations:
  1. Help requested from SET DB command                 22.5%
  2. First word of command is invalid                   15.8%
  3. DISPLAY command-first of >1 screen                  9.7%
  4. FIND command with invalid index name                7.0%
  5. FIND command with zero results                      6.7%
  6. DISPLAY command-complete in one screen              6.7%
  7.                                     1185            4.7%
  8. DISPLAY command - last of >1 screen                 3.4%
  9. NS command - no next screen                         3.0%
 10. 3 HELP commands issued from same code               2.0%
 11. All others                                         18.5%

Ten most frequent SHOW requests:
  1. HISTORY                                            61.3%
  2. SEARCH                                             19.4%
  3. GLOSSARY                                            6.5%
  4. SETTINGS (INS/PSY DBS)                              3.2%
  5. PSYCINFO NEWS                                       3.2%
  6. FIND DISPLAY                                        3.2%
  7. DATABASES                                           3.2%
 11. All others                                          0.0%
PSYmm/dd psy      MELVYL PSYCINFO DATABASE TELNET STATISTICS (weekly)