MELSRV INSPEC DATABASES Z39.50 SERVER STATISTICS                   
               Time period: 03/01/99 through 03/31/99                           
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
1.0  SUMMARY STATISTICS                                                         
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Relative use of INSPEC databases:                                               
                                                                                
                                                 Number of                      
                                 Searches        Records Presented              
                                 ________        _________________              
    INS (current)                  36,434              1,734,080                
    INS90                           7,087                116,435                
    INS85                           4,586                 69,741                
    INS80                           2,841                 39,700                
    INS69                           3,121                 64,690                
                                                                                
                                                                                
    Per hour usage:                                                             
         Time                    Searches        Records Presented              
    _______________         _____________        _________________              
    12-2  a.m.                      1,319                   40,907              
     2-4  a.m.                        615                   21,067              
     4-6  a.m.                        366                   28,669              
     6-8  a.m.                        679                   46,718              
     8-10 a.m.                      3,692                  112,597              
    10-12 a.m.                      8,396                  313,805              
    12-2  p.m.                      8,165                  294,810              
     2-4  p.m.                     10,754                  404,448              
     4-6  p.m.                      9,443                  379,831              
     6-8  p.m.                      4,882                  181,270              
     8-10 p.m.                      2,961                  104,053              
    10-12 p.m.                      2,797                   96,471              
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        Total:                     54,069                2,024,646              
                                                                                
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            
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Berkeley                                                         182            
Davis                                                             14            
Irvine                                                            64            
Los Angeles                                                       45            
Riverside                                                          0            
San Diego                                                      1,288            
San Francisco                                                     55            
Santa Barbara                                                    360            
Santa Cruz                                                       102            
Lawrence Berkeley                                                210            
Lawrence Livermore                                               205            
Los Alamos                                                         0            
MELWEB                                                        51,028            
Other - UC                                                       305            
Other-Network UC                                                 211            
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                                                              54,069            
                                                                                
                                                                                
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            
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Berkeley                                                       2,278            
Davis                                                             17            
Irvine                                                           887            
Los Angeles                                                      281            
Riverside                                                          0            
San Diego                                                      6,113            
San Francisco                                                    176            
Santa Barbara                                                  7,925            
Santa Cruz                                                         0            
Lawrence Berkeley                                             11,874            
Lawrence Livermore                                             4,506            
Los Alamos                                                         0            
MELWEB                                                     1,981,216            
Other - UC                                                       464            
Other-Network UC                                               8,909            
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                                                           2,024,646            
                                                                                
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                                         1.7                
  Standard deviation in seconds                              8.5                
                                                                                
Present response time from receipt of present request                           
DLA until transmission of a present response:                                   
  Average in seconds                                         0.2                
  Standard deviation in seconds                              0.5                
                                                                                
                                                                                
2.0  INSPEC Databases Detailed Statistics                                       
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Median session length (minutes:seconds)                    23:16                
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   25:05                
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                264:43                
Average number of searches completed per session             0.0                
Retrievals per search - median                               5.0                
Retrievals per search - average                            438.2                
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                5435.3                
Percent of searches completed with 0 results                26.7%               
                                                                                
Percent of searches entered that are long                    0.7%               
Percent of long searches completed                                              
  (includes partial results)                                 100%               
                                                                                
Commands entered, by type, excluding errors:                                    
                                                   Total     Percentage         
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  SEARCH                                          54,069          11.8%         
  PRESENT                                        386,642          84.7%         
  INIT or CLOSE                                   14,946           3.3%         
  OTHER                                              899           0.2%         
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 23,325     32.9%   6,256   26.8%      10       82.1    686.0  
  TITLE WORD      10,736     15.2%   3,828   35.7%       4      126.9   1562.2  
  EXACT TITLE        927      1.3%     458   49.4%       1       32.5    289.5  
  JOURNAL          3,248      4.6%   1,562   48.1%       9     1363.8   7240.1  
  EXACT JOURNAL      967      1.4%     437   45.2%     324     3102.7   7885.1  
  SUBJECT          2,782      3.9%     986   35.4%      13      398.6   2028.9  
  EXACT SUBJECT      858      1.2%     165   19.2%       5      305.0   1091.3  
  THESAURUS           49      0.1%      27   55.1%     196     2895.9   5731.7  
  EXACT THESAURUS    524      0.7%      98   18.7%      45      909.0   2191.7  
  KEYWORD         17,650     24.9%   3,401   19.3%      28     1130.7   9801.1  
  SUBFILE            131      0.2%      28   21.4%      18      121.9    282.2  
  FORM               767      1.1%     215   28.0%      21      233.5   1582.0  
  DATE               660      0.9%     184   27.9%      11      183.9    719.5  
  ADDED              206      0.3%     155   75.2%       5       17.3     31.1  
  ARTICLE            772      1.1%     162   21.0%      30      447.1   3421.1  
  AUTHOR AFFIL.      844      1.2%     406   48.1%      14      156.3    877.7  
  CONFERENCE         243      0.3%     126   51.9%      57     3108.9  22952.0  
  LANGUAGE         2,588      3.7%     573   22.1%      40      749.6   4127.8  
  CHEMICAL NAME      343      0.5%     147   42.9%      11      177.5    666.6  
  ISSN                 4      0.0%       4    100%       0        0.0      0.0  
  ISBN                 3      0.0%       3    100%       0        0.0      0.0  
  ID NUMBER            6      0.0%       2   33.3%       1        1.0      0.0  
  PRODUCT NUMBER       2      0.0%       2    100%       0        0.0      0.0  
  STANDARD NUMBER     27      0.0%      14   51.9%       1       51.1    109.9  
  ISN                  0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0  
  AT               3,134      4.4%     847   27.0%      23      422.1   2447.6  
  Other indexes        0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0  
                                                                                
                                                           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        13,440     24.9%   4,609   34.3%       9      337.8   2609.0  
  Single          40,629     75.1%   9,810   24.1%      16      672.0   7052.2  
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
PRESENT commands, by type:                                                      
  MARC                                                      37.1%               
  OPAC                                                      35.3%