MELSRV BIOSIS DATABASES Z39.50 SERVER STATISTICS
               Time period: 08/25/01 through 08/31/01



1.0  SUMMARY STATISTICS
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Relative use of BIOSIS databases:

                                                 Number of
                                 Searches        Records Presented
                                 ________        _________________
    BIOSIS                         10,872                259,011
    BIO88                           2,095                 27,889


    Per hour usage:
         Time                    Searches        Records Presented
    _______________         _____________        _________________
    12-2  a.m.                        696                    6,902
     2-4  a.m.                        187                    1,548
     4-6  a.m.                        114                      906
     6-8  a.m.                        409                    6,850
     8-10 a.m.                      1,001                   22,872
    10-12 a.m.                      2,140                   54,075
    12-2  p.m.                      2,310                   59,738
     2-4  p.m.                      2,283                   50,462
     4-6  p.m.                      1,686                   46,258
     6-8  p.m.                      1,103                   21,014
     8-10 p.m.                        452                   10,061
    10-12 p.m.                        586                    6,214
    __________              _____________        _________________
        Total:                     12,967                  286,900

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                                                         170
Davis                                                            702
Irvine                                                             9
Los Angeles                                                       84
Riverside                                                         32
San Diego                                                        117
San Francisco                                                     14
Santa Barbara                                                     68
Santa Cruz                                                       603
Lawrence Berkeley                                                 12
Lawrence Livermore                                                 0
Los Alamos                                                         0
MELWEB                                                             2
Searchlight                                                      836
Other - UC                                                    10,031
Other-Network UC                                                 287
                                                               _____
                                                              12,967


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                                                       1,907
Davis                                                         10,784
Irvine                                                           154
Los Angeles                                                    1,361
Riverside                                                        548
San Diego                                                      1,667
San Francisco                                                    125
Santa Barbara                                                    589
Santa Cruz                                                     4,447
Lawrence Berkeley                                                 96
Lawrence Livermore                                                 0
Los Alamos                                                         0
MELWEB                                                            88
Searchlight                                                        0
Other - UC                                                   260,729
Other-Network UC                                               4,405
                                                               _____
                                                             286,900

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                              7.2

Present response time from receipt of present request
DLA until transmission of a present response:
  Average in seconds                                         0.2
  Standard deviation in seconds                              0.5


2.0  BIOSIS Databases Detailed Statistics
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Median session length (minutes:seconds)                    20:59
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   18:34
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                259:37
Average number of searches completed per session             0.0
Retrievals per search - median                               5.0
Retrievals per search - average                            685.3
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                8262.4
Percent of searches completed with 0 results                24.5%

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                                          12,967          14.0%
  PRESENT                                         74,477          80.5%
  INIT or CLOSE                                    5,020           5.4%
  OTHER                                              105           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  4,715     26.0%     768   16.3%       8      121.3   1877.0
  TITLE WORD       2,415     13.3%   1,145   47.4%       2      128.8   1377.7
  EXACT TITLE        112      0.6%      69   61.6%       1        5.4     28.5
  KEYWORD          6,751     37.3%   1,382   20.5%      18     1231.2  11966.8
  JOURNAL            562      3.1%     162   28.8%       7     2617.2  11151.0
  EXACT JOURNAL      194      1.1%      91   46.9%     266     3654.4   9174.9
  SOURCE               0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  CONFERENCE           1      0.0%       0    0.0%       4        4.0      0.0
  BIOSYS NAMES        11      0.1%       9   81.8%     218      218.0    285.7
  BIOSYS CODES         0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  SUPERTAXA           16      0.1%       1    6.3%      93      340.8    833.2
  MAJ CONCEPT CDES     0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  CONCEPT CODES        0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  PUBLICATION TYPE    24      0.1%       3   12.5%       3       52.0    100.3
  DATE               154      0.9%      41   26.6%       4       22.6     68.7
  LANGUAGE            22      0.1%       1    4.5%       4        7.6      8.9
  ADDED            1,273      7.0%   1,051   82.6%       3        7.4     12.1
  AUTHOR AFFIL.       44      0.2%      11   25.0%      14       25.0     29.0
  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                  74      0.4%      19   25.7%       7      292.8   1192.6
  Other indexes    1,740      9.6%     399   22.9%      11     1022.0   7882.9

                                                           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         4,293     33.1%   1,650   38.4%       4      315.7   3509.7
  Single           8,674     66.9%   1,524   17.6%      20     1126.2  10900.0



PRESENT commands, by type:
  MARC                                                      57.5%
  OPAC                                                      25.6%
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