MELSRV BIOSIS DATABASES Z39.50 SERVER STATISTICS
               Time period: 11/25/00 through 12/01/00



1.0  SUMMARY STATISTICS
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Relative use of BIOSIS databases:

                                                 Number of
                                 Searches        Records Presented
                                 ________        _________________
    BIOSIS                         16,168                435,784
    BIO88                           3,931                 61,243


    Per hour usage:
         Time                    Searches        Records Presented
    _______________         _____________        _________________
    12-2  a.m.                        553                   11,601
     2-4  a.m.                        162                    2,781
     4-6  a.m.                         92                    1,826
     6-8  a.m.                        309                    6,319
     8-10 a.m.                      1,354                   29,838
    10-12 a.m.                      3,369                   93,412
    12-2  p.m.                      3,224                   81,763
     2-4  p.m.                      3,831                   91,514
     4-6  p.m.                      3,019                   72,686
     6-8  p.m.                      1,907                   49,240
     8-10 p.m.                      1,467                   35,841
    10-12 p.m.                        812                   20,206
    __________              _____________        _________________
        Total:                     20,099                  497,027

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                                                         272
Davis                                                            377
Irvine                                                             6
Los Angeles                                                      205
Riverside                                                         96
San Diego                                                         46
San Francisco                                                     31
Santa Barbara                                                     73
Santa Cruz                                                        39
Lawrence Berkeley                                                  6
Lawrence Livermore                                                 3
Los Alamos                                                         0
MELWEB                                                        15,910
Searchlight                                                    2,593
Other - UC                                                        88
Other-Network UC                                                 354
                                                               _____
                                                              20,099


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                                                       3,788
Davis                                                          6,545
Irvine                                                            14
Los Angeles                                                    3,411
Riverside                                                      1,184
San Diego                                                        432
San Francisco                                                    362
Santa Barbara                                                    576
Santa Cruz                                                       906
Lawrence Berkeley                                                115
Lawrence Livermore                                               151
Los Alamos                                                         0
MELWEB                                                       471,677
Searchlight                                                    3,920
Other - UC                                                     1,543
Other-Network UC                                               2,403
                                                               _____
                                                             497,027

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                                         1.8
  Standard deviation in seconds                              5.9

Present response time from receipt of present request
DLA until transmission of a present response:
  Average in seconds                                         0.2
  Standard deviation in seconds                              0.7


2.0  BIOSIS Databases Detailed Statistics
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Median session length (minutes:seconds)                    21:30
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   20:19
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                292:57
Average number of searches completed per session             0.0
Retrievals per search - median                               7.0
Retrievals per search - average                            877.3
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                 10555
Percent of searches completed with 0 results                19.8%

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                                          20,099          14.2%
  PRESENT                                        113,253          79.8%
  INIT or CLOSE                                    8,275           5.8%
  OTHER                                              309           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  5,898     20.8%   1,001   17.0%       9       87.3    645.3
  TITLE WORD       2,380      8.4%     624   26.2%       3      391.4   3170.5
  EXACT TITLE        207      0.7%     111   53.6%       1       84.1    590.9
  KEYWORD         12,406     43.8%   2,345   18.9%      20     1192.7  12429.3
  JOURNAL          1,388      4.9%     526   37.9%       6     2987.0  18202.7
  EXACT JOURNAL      310      1.1%     129   41.6%      23      872.5   2086.0
  SOURCE               0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  CONFERENCE           2      0.0%       2    100%       0        0.0      0.0
  BIOSYS NAMES        21      0.1%      15   71.4%     494      489.8    386.7
  BIOSYS CODES         0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  SUPERTAXA           57      0.2%      16   28.1%      33      118.6    274.0
  MAJ CONCEPT CDES     5      0.0%       0    0.0%  69,850    50678.0  27099.0
  CONCEPT CODES        7      0.0%       1   14.3%     176     2687.5   6227.5
  PUBLICATION TYPE    28      0.1%       8   28.6%       5      118.3    272.4
  DATE               158      0.6%      20   12.7%       2       29.6     88.5
  LANGUAGE            46      0.2%      15   32.6%      33      217.5    379.9
  ADDED              431      1.5%     278   64.5%       3       13.5     61.2
  AUTHOR AFFIL.       99      0.3%      45   45.5%       9      265.2   1646.4
  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              1      0.0%       1    100%       0        0.0      0.0
  AT                 490      1.7%     113   23.1%      22      766.8   4524.2
  Other indexes    4,413     15.6%     868   19.7%      17     1299.6  13241.0

                                                           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         6,148     30.6%   1,535   25.0%       8      690.5   7731.7
  Single          13,951     69.4%   2,435   17.5%      19     1254.6  13042.2



PRESENT commands, by type:
  MARC                                                      50.6%
  OPAC                                                      31.5%
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