MELSRV INSPEC DATABASES Z39.50 SERVER STATISTICS                   
               Time period: 04/01/99 through 04/30/99                           
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
1.0  SUMMARY STATISTICS                                                         
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Relative use of INSPEC databases:                                               
                                                                                
                                                 Number of                      
                                 Searches        Records Presented              
                                 ________        _________________              
    INS (current)                  37,366              1,674,693                
    INS90                           7,296                113,113                
    INS85                           4,654                 77,122                
    INS80                           2,789                 45,434                
    INS69                           2,834                 83,692                
                                                                                
                                                                                
    Per hour usage:                                                             
         Time                    Searches        Records Presented              
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    12-2  a.m.                      1,210                   35,482              
     2-4  a.m.                        537                   10,094              
     4-6  a.m.                        234                    4,743              
     6-8  a.m.                        513                   23,163              
     8-10 a.m.                      3,316                  110,643              
    10-12 a.m.                      8,161                  306,206              
    12-2  p.m.                      8,604                  318,398              
     2-4  p.m.                     10,993                  391,850              
     4-6  p.m.                     10,056                  381,218              
     6-8  p.m.                      5,110                  182,904              
     8-10 p.m.                      3,514                  143,765              
    10-12 p.m.                      2,691                   85,588              
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        Total:                     54,939                1,994,054              
                                                                                
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                                                         157            
Davis                                                             41            
Irvine                                                            42            
Los Angeles                                                       41            
Riverside                                                          2            
San Diego                                                      1,215            
San Francisco                                                     14            
Santa Barbara                                                    349            
Santa Cruz                                                       178            
Lawrence Berkeley                                                264            
Lawrence Livermore                                               166            
Los Alamos                                                         0            
MELWEB                                                        51,821            
Other - UC                                                       366            
Other-Network UC                                                 283            
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                                                              54,939            
                                                                                
                                                                                
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                                                       2,532            
Davis                                                            309            
Irvine                                                           372            
Los Angeles                                                      751            
Riverside                                                        527            
San Diego                                                      2,384            
San Francisco                                                    219            
Santa Barbara                                                  2,215            
Santa Cruz                                                         0            
Lawrence Berkeley                                              5,560            
Lawrence Livermore                                             5,404            
Los Alamos                                                         0            
MELWEB                                                     1,956,399            
Other - UC                                                    10,009            
Other-Network UC                                               7,373            
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                                                           1,994,054            
                                                                                
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                              7.6                
                                                                                
Present response time from receipt of present request                           
DLA until transmission of a present response:                                   
  Average in seconds                                         0.3                
  Standard deviation in seconds                              0.8                
                                                                                
                                                                                
2.0  INSPEC Databases Detailed Statistics                                       
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Median session length (minutes:seconds)                    23:36                
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   26:09                
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                327:03                
Average number of searches completed per session             0.0                
Retrievals per search - median                               5.0                
Retrievals per search - average                            485.8                
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                5315.0                
Percent of searches completed with 0 results                27.3%               
                                                                                
Percent of searches entered that are long                    0.8%               
Percent of long searches completed                                              
  (includes partial results)                                 100%               
                                                                                
Commands entered, by type, excluding errors:                                    
                                                   Total     Percentage         
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  SEARCH                                          54,939          12.4%         
  PRESENT                                        372,395          84.0%         
  INIT or CLOSE                                   15,153           3.4%         
  OTHER                                              587           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 23,278     32.3%   6,412   27.5%      10       83.5   1118.8  
  TITLE WORD      10,974     15.2%   3,887   35.4%       4      124.0   1087.4  
  EXACT TITLE      1,034      1.4%     512   49.5%       1       15.3     99.4  
  JOURNAL          3,650      5.1%   1,783   48.8%       8     1116.5   6340.5  
  EXACT JOURNAL    1,036      1.4%     450   43.4%     393     3153.9   7574.3  
  SUBJECT          2,975      4.1%   1,123   37.7%      13      408.5   2727.7  
  EXACT SUBJECT      843      1.2%     173   20.5%       4      388.6   1582.5  
  THESAURUS           29      0.0%      20   69.0%     804     2091.9   2472.3  
  EXACT THESAURUS    308      0.4%      52   16.9%      39     1268.3   3226.7  
  KEYWORD         18,404     25.5%   3,770   20.5%      30     1302.9   9552.8  
  SUBFILE            196      0.3%      37   18.9%      30      182.0    517.8  
  FORM               762      1.1%     211   27.7%      17      361.8   3025.2  
  DATE               717      1.0%     192   26.8%      18      120.6    620.7  
  ADDED              243      0.3%     209   86.0%       7       45.9    141.9  
  ARTICLE            351      0.5%      68   19.4%      34      328.6   1303.2  
  AUTHOR AFFIL.    1,128      1.6%     507   44.9%      10      155.9    705.6  
  CONFERENCE         237      0.3%      98   41.3%     133     4118.8  22262.1  
  LANGUAGE         2,388      3.3%     556   23.3%      43      773.5   3532.8  
  CHEMICAL NAME      235      0.3%     117   49.8%      13      116.6    445.2  
  ISSN                12      0.0%       7   58.3%       9      106.2    136.8  
  ISBN                12      0.0%      10   83.3%     187      186.5    260.9  
  ID NUMBER            0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0  
  PRODUCT NUMBER       2      0.0%       1   50.0%      71       71.0      0.0  
  STANDARD NUMBER     21      0.0%      17   80.9%       7        9.5     10.1  
  ISN                  0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0  
  AT               3,221      4.5%     953   29.6%      21      730.9   5840.1  
  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.  
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  By number of indexes:                                                         
  Multiple        13,776     25.1%   4,993   36.2%       8      379.3   3766.4  
  Single          41,163     74.9%  10,019   24.3%      16      750.0   6756.2  
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
PRESENT commands, by type:                                                      
  MARC                                                      34.6%               
  OPAC                                                      38.3%