MELSRV BIOSIS DATABASES Z39.50 SERVER STATISTICS
               Time period: 11/18/00 through 11/24/00



1.0  SUMMARY STATISTICS
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Relative use of BIOSIS databases:

                                                 Number of
                                 Searches        Records Presented
                                 ________        _________________
    BIOSIS                         13,001                398,950
    BIO88                           3,018                 55,568


    Per hour usage:
         Time                    Searches        Records Presented
    _______________         _____________        _________________
    12-2  a.m.                        601                   13,423
     2-4  a.m.                         69                    1,215
     4-6  a.m.                        123                    3,660
     6-8  a.m.                        251                   13,016
     8-10 a.m.                      1,000                   32,769
    10-12 a.m.                      2,310                   64,900
    12-2  p.m.                      2,983                   81,087
     2-4  p.m.                      3,211                   92,041
     4-6  p.m.                      2,505                   70,300
     6-8  p.m.                      1,284                   33,184
     8-10 p.m.                      1,078                   31,294
    10-12 p.m.                        604                   17,629
    __________              _____________        _________________
        Total:                     16,019                  454,518

1.1  SEARCH commands
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Zero results may indicate no access to the database

Number of SEARCH commands issued by location:
Location                                                       Total
________                                                       _____
Berkeley                                                         109
Davis                                                            448
Irvine                                                             0
Los Angeles                                                       40
Riverside                                                         77
San Diego                                                         32
San Francisco                                                      7
Santa Barbara                                                     59
Santa Cruz                                                        18
Lawrence Berkeley                                                  0
Lawrence Livermore                                                 0
Los Alamos                                                         0
MELWEB                                                        12,940
Searchlight                                                    2,230
Other - UC                                                         9
Other-Network UC                                                  50
                                                               _____
                                                              16,019


1.2  Records Presented
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Zero results may indicate no access to the database

Number of Records Presented by location:

Location                                                       Total
________                                                       _____
Berkeley                                                       1,345
Davis                                                          8,167
Irvine                                                             0
Los Angeles                                                      356
Riverside                                                        852
San Diego                                                        754
San Francisco                                                    120
Santa Barbara                                                    834
Santa Cruz                                                     5,109
Lawrence Berkeley                                                  0
Lawrence Livermore                                                 0
Los Alamos                                                         0
MELWEB                                                       409,409
Searchlight                                                   26,529
Other - UC                                                        99
Other-Network UC                                                 944
                                                               _____
                                                             454,518

1.3  Response time
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Search response time from receipt of search request
DLA until transmission of search response:
  Average in seconds                                         1.9
  Standard deviation in seconds                              7.0

Present response time from receipt of present request
DLA until transmission of a present response:
  Average in seconds                                         0.3
  Standard deviation in seconds                              0.5


2.0  BIOSIS Databases Detailed Statistics
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Median session length (minutes:seconds)                    21:28
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   20:12
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                200:23
Average number of searches completed per session             0.0
Retrievals per search - median                               7.0
Retrievals per search - average                            746.0
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                7442.5
Percent of searches completed with 0 results                20.3%

Percent of searches entered that are long                    0.2%
Percent of long searches completed
  (includes partial results)                                 100%

Commands entered, by type, excluding errors:
                                                   Total     Percentage
                                              __________     __________
  SEARCH                                          16,019          12.9%
  PRESENT                                        101,392          81.6%
  INIT or CLOSE                                    6,629           5.3%
  OTHER                                              218           0.2%
SEARCHes completed:                                        RETRIEVALS PER NON-
                             TOTAL    ZERO RESULTS        ZERO RESULT SEARCHES
                     _____________  ______________      ______________________
                              % of            % of
                               all         all for                        Std.
                     No.  SEARCHes     No.   Index  Median       Avg.     Dev.
                  ______ _________  ______ _______  ______ __________  _______
  By index:
  PERSONAL AUTHOR  3,851     16.9%     764   19.8%      10      114.5   1224.4
  TITLE WORD       1,883      8.3%     587   31.2%       4      507.2   6074.9
  EXACT TITLE        127      0.6%      85   66.9%       1       16.4     98.9
  KEYWORD         10,553     46.4%   1,934   18.3%      19      860.7   7296.2
  JOURNAL            973      4.3%     398   40.9%      11     3318.0  15272.6
  EXACT JOURNAL      222      1.0%     109   49.1%      47     1361.6   3503.4
  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        19      0.1%      13   68.4%       7       60.2     91.1
  BIOSYS CODES         0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  SUPERTAXA           66      0.3%       9   13.6%       9       61.6    121.0
  MAJ CONCEPT CDES     3      0.0%       0    0.0%  144930     109545  61289.2
  CONCEPT CODES       13      0.1%       2   15.4%      10       14.8     15.0
  PUBLICATION TYPE    57      0.3%      15   26.3%      10      153.2    459.8
  DATE                34      0.1%       9   26.5%       6       50.2    166.8
  LANGUAGE            61      0.3%      12   19.7%      23      234.4    440.9
  ADDED              535      2.4%     310   57.9%       4       13.4     24.6
  AUTHOR AFFIL.       86      0.4%      39   45.3%      15       57.5    167.8
  ACCESSION NO.        1      0.0%       1    100%       0        0.0      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
  ISN                  0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  ARTICLE              2      0.0%       1   50.0%      15       15.0      0.0
  AT                 435      1.9%     107   24.6%       9      136.0    555.6
  Other indexes    3,840     16.9%     854   22.2%      21     1576.8  13096.2

                                                           RETRIEVALS PER NON-
                             TOTAL    ZERO RESULTS        ZERO RESULT SEARCHES
                     _____________  ______________      ______________________
                              % of            % of
                               all         all for                        Std.
                     No.  SEARCHes     No.   Index  Median       Avg.     Dev.
                  ______ _________  ______ _______  ______ __________  _______
  By number of indexes:
  Multiple         4,778     29.8%   1,303   27.3%      11      866.2   9447.7
  Single          11,241     70.2%   1,957   17.4%      19      962.9   7869.4



PRESENT commands, by type:
  MARC                                                      47.6%
  OPAC                                                      37.4%
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