MELSRV BIOSIS DATABASES Z39.50 SERVER STATISTICS
               Time period: 01/27/01 through 02/02/01



1.0  SUMMARY STATISTICS
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Relative use of BIOSIS databases:

                                                 Number of
                                 Searches        Records Presented
                                 ________        _________________
    BIOSIS                         16,868                494,329
    BIO88                           3,524                 63,675


    Per hour usage:
         Time                    Searches        Records Presented
    _______________         _____________        _________________
    12-2  a.m.                        457                    7,865
     2-4  a.m.                        312                    5,082
     4-6  a.m.                        143                    3,721
     6-8  a.m.                        281                    9,250
     8-10 a.m.                      1,608                   36,800
    10-12 a.m.                      3,125                   87,288
    12-2  p.m.                      3,469                   95,621
     2-4  p.m.                      4,467                  130,799
     4-6  p.m.                      2,936                   85,214
     6-8  p.m.                      1,526                   38,244
     8-10 p.m.                      1,295                   36,699
    10-12 p.m.                        773                   21,421
    __________              _____________        _________________
        Total:                     20,392                  558,004

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                                                         485
Davis                                                            582
Irvine                                                            25
Los Angeles                                                      112
Riverside                                                         90
San Diego                                                        171
San Francisco                                                     28
Santa Barbara                                                     30
Santa Cruz                                                        16
Lawrence Berkeley                                                  1
Lawrence Livermore                                                 2
Los Alamos                                                         0
MELWEB                                                        15,599
Searchlight                                                    2,798
Other - UC                                                        29
Other-Network UC                                                 424
                                                               _____
                                                              20,392


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                                                       3,524
Davis                                                          9,509
Irvine                                                         2,181
Los Angeles                                                    1,400
Riverside                                                      1,425
San Diego                                                      1,820
San Francisco                                                    722
Santa Barbara                                                    704
Santa Cruz                                                       791
Lawrence Berkeley                                                  0
Lawrence Livermore                                               190
Los Alamos                                                         0
MELWEB                                                       506,831
Searchlight                                                   16,440
Other - UC                                                       404
Other-Network UC                                              12,063
                                                               _____
                                                             558,004

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                                         1.6
  Standard deviation in seconds                              6.3

Present response time from receipt of present request
DLA until transmission of a present response:
  Average in seconds                                         0.2
  Standard deviation in seconds                              0.9


2.0  BIOSIS Databases Detailed Statistics
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Median session length (minutes:seconds)                    21:23
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   19:47
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                230:03
Average number of searches completed per session             0.0
Retrievals per search - median                               8.0
Retrievals per search - average                            823.1
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                7426.6
Percent of searches completed with 0 results                19.3%

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                                          20,392          12.4%
  PRESENT                                        135,875          82.3%
  INIT or CLOSE                                    8,579           5.2%
  OTHER                                              191           0.1%
SEARCHes completed:                                        RETRIEVALS PER NON-
                             TOTAL    ZERO RESULTS        ZERO RESULT SEARCHES
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                              % of            % of
                               all         all for                        Std.
                     No.  SEARCHes     No.   Index  Median       Avg.     Dev.
                  ______ _________  ______ _______  ______ __________  _______
  By index:
  PERSONAL AUTHOR  6,098     20.8%   1,132   18.6%       8      128.8   2745.2
  TITLE WORD       2,699      9.2%     719   26.6%       3      236.8   2751.3
  EXACT TITLE        196      0.7%     121   61.7%       1      100.9    490.0
  KEYWORD         12,326     42.0%   2,116   17.2%      23     1070.5   7524.1
  JOURNAL          1,204      4.1%     401   33.3%       6     2699.8  14421.2
  EXACT JOURNAL      324      1.1%     137   42.3%     175     2651.0   7724.7
  SOURCE               0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  CONFERENCE           7      0.0%       6   85.7%      59       59.0      0.0
  BIOSYS NAMES         9      0.0%       5   55.6%      26      154.5    270.5
  BIOSYS CODES         1      0.0%       1    100%       0        0.0      0.0
  SUPERTAXA           38      0.1%       3    7.9%      18     1150.0   6242.7
  MAJ CONCEPT CDES     2      0.0%       0    0.0%  95,722    95721.5  69591.3
  CONCEPT CODES        9      0.0%       1   11.1%     168    22901.3  44488.0
  PUBLICATION TYPE    36      0.1%       4   11.1%      27      238.9    542.8
  DATE               105      0.4%      24   22.9%      11       74.2     99.9
  LANGUAGE            46      0.2%       7   15.2%      63      354.8   1271.6
  ADDED              604      2.1%     357   59.1%       5       16.3     44.0
  AUTHOR AFFIL.      119      0.4%      40   33.6%       7      134.7    957.0
  ACCESSION NO.        1      0.0%       1    100%       0        0.0      0.0
  ISSN                 6      0.0%       5   83.3%      95       95.0      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%       0    0.0%     173      172.5    194.5
  AT                 285      1.0%      67   23.5%      11      300.5   1210.6
  Other indexes    5,250     17.9%     964   18.4%      29     1121.5   9606.9

                                                           RETRIEVALS PER NON-
                             TOTAL    ZERO RESULTS        ZERO RESULT SEARCHES
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                              % of            % of
                               all         all for                        Std.
                     No.  SEARCHes     No.   Index  Median       Avg.     Dev.
                  ______ _________  ______ _______  ______ __________  _______
  By number of indexes:
  Multiple         6,304     30.9%   1,502   23.8%       9      500.1   5018.6
  Single          14,088     69.1%   2,427   17.2%      21     1233.4   9254.3



PRESENT commands, by type:
  MARC                                                      52.4%
  OPAC                                                      31.8%
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