MELSRV BIOSIS DATABASES Z39.50 SERVER STATISTICS
               Time period: 12/30/00 through 01/05/01



1.0  SUMMARY STATISTICS
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Relative use of BIOSIS databases:

                                                 Number of
                                 Searches        Records Presented
                                 ________        _________________
    BIOSIS                          7,204                208,355
    BIO88                           1,399                 35,078


    Per hour usage:
         Time                    Searches        Records Presented
    _______________         _____________        _________________
    12-2  a.m.                        332                    2,695
     2-4  a.m.                        133                    1,493
     4-6  a.m.                        103                    1,522
     6-8  a.m.                        186                    4,611
     8-10 a.m.                        717                   18,497
    10-12 a.m.                      1,599                   43,752
    12-2  p.m.                      1,487                   43,024
     2-4  p.m.                      1,826                   58,800
     4-6  p.m.                      1,318                   39,262
     6-8  p.m.                        500                   13,126
     8-10 p.m.                        210                    6,362
    10-12 p.m.                        192                   10,289
    __________              _____________        _________________
        Total:                      8,603                  243,433

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                                                         346
Davis                                                            472
Irvine                                                             1
Los Angeles                                                       36
Riverside                                                         22
San Diego                                                         26
San Francisco                                                     18
Santa Barbara                                                     20
Santa Cruz                                                        63
Lawrence Berkeley                                                  2
Lawrence Livermore                                                 7
Los Alamos                                                         0
MELWEB                                                         5,772
Searchlight                                                    1,430
Other - UC                                                        17
Other-Network UC                                                 371
                                                               _____
                                                               8,603


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                                                      24,519
Davis                                                          6,637
Irvine                                                            26
Los Angeles                                                    1,372
Riverside                                                      1,094
San Diego                                                        354
San Francisco                                                    938
Santa Barbara                                                    255
Santa Cruz                                                       919
Lawrence Berkeley                                                  7
Lawrence Livermore                                               162
Los Alamos                                                         0
MELWEB                                                       193,817
Searchlight                                                    9,997
Other - UC                                                       675
Other-Network UC                                               2,661
                                                               _____
                                                             243,433

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                                         1.5
  Standard deviation in seconds                              5.5

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)                    20:50
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   17:40
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                199:59
Average number of searches completed per session             0.0
Retrievals per search - median                               7.0
Retrievals per search - average                            559.5
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                6180.7
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                                           8,603           9.7%
  PRESENT                                         76,455          86.2%
  INIT or CLOSE                                    3,577           4.0%
  OTHER                                               96           0.1%
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  3,488     28.5%     655   18.8%       9      100.5   1390.5
  TITLE WORD       1,091      8.9%     300   27.5%       3      244.3   2489.7
  EXACT TITLE         65      0.5%      40   61.5%       1      582.8   1832.9
  KEYWORD          4,673     38.2%     978   20.9%      21      853.5   6991.0
  JOURNAL            377      3.1%     139   36.9%       5     3181.0  19768.3
  EXACT JOURNAL      108      0.9%      52   48.1%     227     2134.5   5499.9
  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         2      0.0%       1   50.0%       1        1.0      0.0
  BIOSYS CODES         0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  SUPERTAXA            0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  MAJ CONCEPT CDES     1      0.0%       0    0.0%  22,100    22100.0      0.0
  CONCEPT CODES        0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  PUBLICATION TYPE    13      0.1%       1    7.7%       4       33.2     93.8
  DATE               109      0.9%      19   17.4%       5       40.0    116.6
  LANGUAGE            10      0.1%       2   20.0%       6       94.0    161.6
  ADDED              569      4.7%     385   67.7%       3       10.3     17.7
  AUTHOR AFFIL.       68      0.6%      27   39.7%       6      101.1    300.7
  ACCESSION NO.        2      0.0%       2    100%       0        0.0      0.0
  ISSN                 1      0.0%       1    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              3      0.0%       1   33.3%     169      169.0    227.7
  AT                  48      0.4%      17   35.4%      15      358.5    945.4
  Other indexes    1,605     13.1%     397   24.7%      14      612.0   7248.1

                                                           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         2,877     33.4%     878   30.5%       5      220.9   3432.6
  Single           5,726     66.6%     934   16.3%      22      912.4   7961.3



PRESENT commands, by type:
  MARC                                                      66.6%
  OPAC                                                      23.9%
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