MELSRV BIOSIS DATABASES Z39.50 SERVER STATISTICS
               Time period: 12/09/00 through 12/15/00



1.0  SUMMARY STATISTICS
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Relative use of BIOSIS databases:

                                                 Number of
                                 Searches        Records Presented
                                 ________        _________________
    BIOSIS                          9,709                243,900
    BIO88                           1,932                 31,326


    Per hour usage:
         Time                    Searches        Records Presented
    _______________         _____________        _________________
    12-2  a.m.                        436                    2,387
     2-4  a.m.                        139                    2,392
     4-6  a.m.                         67                    1,762
     6-8  a.m.                        246                    3,469
     8-10 a.m.                        954                   21,842
    10-12 a.m.                      1,985                   52,019
    12-2  p.m.                      2,142                   50,848
     2-4  p.m.                      2,364                   58,846
     4-6  p.m.                      1,660                   41,479
     6-8  p.m.                        738                   19,710
     8-10 p.m.                        573                   11,684
    10-12 p.m.                        337                    8,788
    __________              _____________        _________________
        Total:                     11,641                  275,226

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                                                         219
Davis                                                            607
Irvine                                                            10
Los Angeles                                                      129
Riverside                                                        149
San Diego                                                         76
San Francisco                                                     22
Santa Barbara                                                     34
Santa Cruz                                                        78
Lawrence Berkeley                                                  4
Lawrence Livermore                                                 2
Los Alamos                                                         0
MELWEB                                                         8,172
Searchlight                                                    1,652
Other - UC                                                        50
Other-Network UC                                                 437
                                                               _____
                                                              11,641


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                                                       2,712
Davis                                                         12,253
Irvine                                                            83
Los Angeles                                                    4,196
Riverside                                                      2,027
San Diego                                                        803
San Francisco                                                    494
Santa Barbara                                                    356
Santa Cruz                                                     1,111
Lawrence Berkeley                                                153
Lawrence Livermore                                                 3
Los Alamos                                                         0
MELWEB                                                       241,619
Searchlight                                                    2,512
Other - UC                                                     1,322
Other-Network UC                                               5,582
                                                               _____
                                                             275,226

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                                         1.4
  Standard deviation in seconds                              5.2

Present response time from receipt of present request
DLA until transmission of a present response:
  Average in seconds                                         0.2
  Standard deviation in seconds                              0.3


2.0  BIOSIS Databases Detailed Statistics
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Median session length (minutes:seconds)                    21:01
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   18:48
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                216:45
Average number of searches completed per session             0.0
Retrievals per search - median                               8.0
Retrievals per search - average                           1071.9
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                 15162
Percent of searches completed with 0 results                19.9%

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                                          11,641          12.9%
  PRESENT                                         73,694          81.4%
  INIT or CLOSE                                    4,950           5.5%
  OTHER                                              205           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  4,241     26.5%     645   15.2%      10       97.1   1235.0
  TITLE WORD       1,493      9.3%     397   26.6%       4      146.1   1016.2
  EXACT TITLE        113      0.7%      73   64.6%       1       34.1    108.1
  KEYWORD          6,406     40.0%   1,311   20.5%      20     1697.4  20589.6
  JOURNAL            687      4.3%     245   35.7%       7     3736.1  18323.4
  EXACT JOURNAL      175      1.1%      67   38.3%       9      768.3   1636.5
  SOURCE               0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  CONFERENCE           6      0.0%       6    100%       0        0.0      0.0
  BIOSYS NAMES        12      0.1%      10   83.3%       8        7.5      2.1
  BIOSYS CODES         0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  SUPERTAXA           23      0.1%       3   13.0%      12      251.6    913.7
  MAJ CONCEPT CDES     2      0.0%       0    0.0%  126343     126343      0.0
  CONCEPT CODES       10      0.1%       4   40.0%      32    23019.8  56329.0
  PUBLICATION TYPE    22      0.1%       5   22.7%       6      264.9    991.8
  DATE                63      0.4%      15   23.8%       5       37.6     90.5
  LANGUAGE            23      0.1%       3   13.0%       9       53.5     89.0
  ADDED              470      2.9%     320   68.1%       1        7.8     23.5
  AUTHOR AFFIL.       69      0.4%      24   34.8%      15       24.9     35.5
  ACCESSION NO.        2      0.0%       2    100%       0        0.0      0.0
  ISSN                 2      0.0%       2    100%       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              0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  AT                  98      0.6%      21   21.4%      16      652.7   2599.8
  Other indexes    2,102     13.1%     428   20.4%      12     1453.7  15136.0

                                                           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         3,394     29.2%     956   28.2%       6      477.1   5722.1
  Single           8,247     70.8%   1,364   16.5%      21     1643.9  19400.3



PRESENT commands, by type:
  MARC                                                      61.1%
  OPAC                                                      23.8%
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