MELSRV BIOSIS DATABASES Z39.50 SERVER STATISTICS
               Time period: 02/24/01 through 03/02/01



1.0  SUMMARY STATISTICS
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Relative use of BIOSIS databases:

                                                 Number of
                                 Searches        Records Presented
                                 ________        _________________
    BIOSIS                         20,952                576,291
    BIO88                           4,433                 64,389


    Per hour usage:
         Time                    Searches        Records Presented
    _______________         _____________        _________________
    12-2  a.m.                        682                   11,688
     2-4  a.m.                        309                    4,101
     4-6  a.m.                        132                    1,688
     6-8  a.m.                        342                   11,793
     8-10 a.m.                      1,644                   40,001
    10-12 a.m.                      4,046                   93,057
    12-2  p.m.                      4,380                  112,395
     2-4  p.m.                      4,549                  129,034
     4-6  p.m.                      4,171                   91,515
     6-8  p.m.                      2,316                   65,287
     8-10 p.m.                      1,598                   45,732
    10-12 p.m.                      1,216                   34,389
    __________              _____________        _________________
        Total:                     25,385                  640,680

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                                                         476
Davis                                                            731
Irvine                                                            25
Los Angeles                                                       82
Riverside                                                         58
San Diego                                                        228
San Francisco                                                     17
Santa Barbara                                                    243
Santa Cruz                                                        63
Lawrence Berkeley                                                 22
Lawrence Livermore                                                 1
Los Alamos                                                         0
MELWEB                                                        20,223
Searchlight                                                    2,843
Other - UC                                                        70
Other-Network UC                                                 303
                                                               _____
                                                              25,385


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                                                       6,650
Davis                                                         13,283
Irvine                                                           270
Los Angeles                                                    1,446
Riverside                                                      1,128
San Diego                                                      4,190
San Francisco                                                    969
Santa Barbara                                                  2,315
Santa Cruz                                                     1,118
Lawrence Berkeley                                                258
Lawrence Livermore                                               249
Los Alamos                                                         0
MELWEB                                                       591,121
Searchlight                                                   12,144
Other - UC                                                       839
Other-Network UC                                               4,700
                                                               _____
                                                             640,680

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                                         1.9
  Standard deviation in seconds                              9.9

Present response time from receipt of present request
DLA until transmission of a present response:
  Average in seconds                                         0.2
  Standard deviation in seconds                              0.6


2.0  BIOSIS Databases Detailed Statistics
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Median session length (minutes:seconds)                    21:31
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   20:18
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                194:48
Average number of searches completed per session             0.0
Retrievals per search - median                               7.0
Retrievals per search - average                            603.3
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                6451.1
Percent of searches completed with 0 results                21.5%

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                                          25,385          13.6%
  PRESENT                                        150,134          80.6%
  INIT or CLOSE                                   10,002           5.4%
  OTHER                                              799           0.4%
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  7,060     20.0%   1,448   20.5%       9       80.2    465.3
  TITLE WORD       3,040      8.6%     936   30.8%       3      375.7   3579.7
  EXACT TITLE        342      1.0%     199   58.2%       1       16.4    122.7
  KEYWORD         16,195     45.9%   3,192   19.7%      20      782.4   6716.1
  JOURNAL          1,308      3.7%     527   40.3%       5     2721.7  16267.1
  EXACT JOURNAL      303      0.9%     151   49.8%      11     1156.0   4049.7
  SOURCE               0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  CONFERENCE           4      0.0%       4    100%       0        0.0      0.0
  BIOSYS NAMES        25      0.1%      19   76.0%      41      191.2    263.0
  BIOSYS CODES         0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  SUPERTAXA           63      0.2%       5    7.9%      35      131.2    232.8
  MAJ CONCEPT CDES     5      0.0%       1   20.0%  14,713    11205.0   7016.0
  CONCEPT CODES       13      0.0%       0    0.0%       8      127.1    304.2
  PUBLICATION TYPE    71      0.2%      15   21.1%      18      240.4    460.2
  DATE               120      0.3%      22   18.3%       8      185.8    506.1
  LANGUAGE            85      0.2%      15   17.6%      18      122.8    272.0
  ADDED              572      1.6%     397   69.4%       4        8.3     14.0
  AUTHOR AFFIL.      133      0.4%      54   40.6%      10       16.1     20.0
  ACCESSION NO.        0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  ISSN                 4      0.0%       3   75.0%       8        8.0      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              6      0.0%       1   16.7%      13      110.4    208.3
  AT                 394      1.1%      78   19.8%      12      597.4   7295.3
  Other indexes    5,571     15.8%   1,286   23.1%      23     1013.1   8586.1

                                                           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         7,229     28.5%   2,000   27.7%       9      436.6   4284.6
  Single          18,156     71.5%   3,456   19.0%      19      886.4   8069.4



PRESENT commands, by type:
  MARC                                                      51.9%
  OPAC                                                      28.8%
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