MELSRV BIOSIS DATABASES Z39.50 SERVER STATISTICS
               Time period: 12/16/00 through 12/22/00



1.0  SUMMARY STATISTICS
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Relative use of BIOSIS databases:

                                                 Number of
                                 Searches        Records Presented
                                 ________        _________________
    BIOSIS                          6,761                196,302
    BIO88                           1,193                 22,730


    Per hour usage:
         Time                    Searches        Records Presented
    _______________         _____________        _________________
    12-2  a.m.                        279                    5,362
     2-4  a.m.                        221                    3,311
     4-6  a.m.                        150                    2,995
     6-8  a.m.                        244                   10,713
     8-10 a.m.                        660                   21,637
    10-12 a.m.                      1,511                   38,235
    12-2  p.m.                      1,421                   36,644
     2-4  p.m.                      1,556                   46,540
     4-6  p.m.                      1,078                   30,632
     6-8  p.m.                        423                    9,715
     8-10 p.m.                        240                    8,151
    10-12 p.m.                        171                    5,097
    __________              _____________        _________________
        Total:                      7,954                  219,032

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                                                         223
Davis                                                            345
Irvine                                                             7
Los Angeles                                                      263
Riverside                                                         53
San Diego                                                         30
San Francisco                                                     13
Santa Barbara                                                      6
Santa Cruz                                                        99
Lawrence Berkeley                                                 13
Lawrence Livermore                                                 0
Los Alamos                                                         0
MELWEB                                                         5,257
Searchlight                                                    1,409
Other - UC                                                        29
Other-Network UC                                                 207
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                                                               7,954


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                                                          7,935
Irvine                                                            85
Los Angeles                                                    8,729
Riverside                                                      3,899
San Diego                                                        630
San Francisco                                                    254
Santa Barbara                                                     61
Santa Cruz                                                     1,217
Lawrence Berkeley                                                503
Lawrence Livermore                                                 0
Los Alamos                                                         0
MELWEB                                                       164,962
Searchlight                                                   21,171
Other - UC                                                       480
Other-Network UC                                               6,394
                                                               _____
                                                             219,032

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                              3.9

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


2.0  BIOSIS Databases Detailed Statistics
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Median session length (minutes:seconds)                    20:43
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   17:46
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                160:07
Average number of searches completed per session             0.0
Retrievals per search - median                               6.0
Retrievals per search - average                            508.5
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                4521.2
Percent of searches completed with 0 results                21.1%

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                                           7,954          10.9%
  PRESENT                                         61,188          83.8%
  INIT or CLOSE                                    3,349           4.6%
  OTHER                                              541           0.7%
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  2,948     27.3%     567   19.2%       8      154.4   2405.2
  TITLE WORD         973      9.0%     262   26.9%       2      309.3   3048.8
  EXACT TITLE         36      0.3%      20   55.6%       1        6.2     11.7
  KEYWORD          4,520     41.8%     917   20.3%      19      794.9   5172.8
  JOURNAL            421      3.9%     171   40.6%      14     1489.5   6331.4
  EXACT JOURNAL       61      0.6%      40   65.6%      22      274.5    502.1
  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         9      0.1%       6   66.7%       8       90.3    144.3
  BIOSYS CODES         0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  SUPERTAXA           15      0.1%       3   20.0%       9       50.6     75.8
  MAJ CONCEPT CDES     1      0.0%       0    0.0%  73,704    73704.0      0.0
  CONCEPT CODES        0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  PUBLICATION TYPE     3      0.0%       0    0.0%      49       80.3     98.8
  DATE                26      0.2%       1    3.8%       5       40.5    109.3
  LANGUAGE             7      0.1%       1   14.3%      28      168.0    329.8
  ADDED              586      5.4%     324   55.3%       3       13.0     44.9
  AUTHOR AFFIL.       33      0.3%       9   27.3%      24       27.2     21.6
  ACCESSION NO.        0      0.0%       0    0.0%       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              0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  AT                  41      0.4%      11   26.8%      15       74.9    154.9
  Other indexes    1,137     10.5%     296   26.0%      11      938.4   8249.9

                                                           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         2,283     28.7%     702   30.7%       5      388.9   4208.3
  Single           5,671     71.3%     980   17.3%      19      731.1   5343.2



PRESENT commands, by type:
  MARC                                                      61.1%
  OPAC                                                      23.9%
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