MELSRV INSPEC DATABASES Z39.50 SERVER STATISTICS                   
               Time period: 05/01/99 through 05/31/99                           
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
1.0  SUMMARY STATISTICS                                                         
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Relative use of INSPEC databases:                                               
                                                                                
                                                 Number of                      
                                 Searches        Records Presented              
                                 ________        _________________              
    INS (current)                  36,898              1,423,436                
    INS90                           7,022                107,693                
    INS85                           4,701                 75,036                
    INS80                           2,736                 35,994                
    INS69                           3,038                 64,431                
                                                                                
                                                                                
    Per hour usage:                                                             
         Time                    Searches        Records Presented              
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    12-2  a.m.                      1,507                   47,043              
     2-4  a.m.                        660                   15,350              
     4-6  a.m.                        282                    7,622              
     6-8  a.m.                        548                   14,758              
     8-10 a.m.                      3,019                   98,494              
    10-12 a.m.                      8,347                  262,487              
    12-2  p.m.                      8,102                  251,676              
     2-4  p.m.                     10,838                  344,895              
     4-6  p.m.                      9,833                  302,025              
     6-8  p.m.                      4,949                  161,781              
     8-10 p.m.                      3,172                   93,034              
    10-12 p.m.                      3,138                  107,425              
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        Total:                     54,395                1,706,590              
                                                                                
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                                                         362            
Davis                                                             22            
Irvine                                                            42            
Los Angeles                                                       39            
Riverside                                                         15            
San Diego                                                      1,244            
San Francisco                                                     30            
Santa Barbara                                                    193            
Santa Cruz                                                       474            
Lawrence Berkeley                                                183            
Lawrence Livermore                                               306            
Los Alamos                                                         0            
MELWEB                                                        49,351            
Other - UC                                                     1,744            
Other-Network UC                                                 390            
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                                                              54,395            
                                                                                
                                                                                
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                                                       4,174            
Davis                                                             56            
Irvine                                                            57            
Los Angeles                                                    1,144            
Riverside                                                     12,976            
San Diego                                                        724            
San Francisco                                                     64            
Santa Barbara                                                  2,457            
Santa Cruz                                                         0            
Lawrence Berkeley                                              1,322            
Lawrence Livermore                                             4,933            
Los Alamos                                                         0            
MELWEB                                                     1,634,078            
Other - UC                                                    25,533            
Other-Network UC                                              19,072            
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                                                           1,706,590            
                                                                                
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                              7.4                
                                                                                
Present response time from receipt of present request                           
DLA until transmission of a present response:                                   
  Average in seconds                                         0.3                
  Standard deviation in seconds                              1.1                
                                                                                
                                                                                
2.0  INSPEC Databases Detailed Statistics                                       
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Median session length (minutes:seconds)                    23:35                
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   25:34                
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                274:12                
Average number of searches completed per session             0.0                
Retrievals per search - median                               5.0                
Retrievals per search - average                            377.9                
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                3877.1                
Percent of searches completed with 0 results                25.9%               
                                                                                
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                                          54,395          13.2%         
  PRESENT                                        342,210          83.0%         
  INIT or CLOSE                                   15,385           3.7%         
  OTHER                                              500           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 21,975     30.7%   5,583   25.4%      10       82.8    754.1  
  TITLE WORD      11,452     16.0%   3,768   32.9%       4      152.4   2429.0  
  EXACT TITLE        749      1.0%     384   51.3%       1       21.3    142.6  
  JOURNAL          3,387      4.7%   1,609   47.5%       6      745.7   8918.0  
  EXACT JOURNAL      913      1.3%     415   45.5%     435     2793.3   6465.9  
  SUBJECT          3,024      4.2%   1,090   36.0%      11      348.1   2516.0  
  EXACT SUBJECT      826      1.2%     172   20.8%       6      424.3   1980.5  
  THESAURUS           19      0.0%       9   47.4%      56       44.3     41.4  
  EXACT THESAURUS    264      0.4%      27   10.2%      40     1503.0   3947.3  
  KEYWORD         18,993     26.6%   3,861   20.3%      26      948.5   6195.1  
  SUBFILE            205      0.3%      54   26.3%      24      171.2    467.4  
  FORM               833      1.2%     207   24.8%      16      148.4    486.5  
  DATE               965      1.3%     252   26.1%      10       85.6    296.4  
  ADDED              258      0.4%     176   68.2%       3       55.0    394.4  
  ARTICLE            142      0.2%      37   26.1%      28      184.1    333.3  
  AUTHOR AFFIL.      772      1.1%     325   42.1%       9      107.9    574.7  
  CONFERENCE         255      0.4%     135   52.9%      27     1259.3  10059.5  
  LANGUAGE         2,754      3.9%     620   22.5%      32      609.4   2360.5  
  CHEMICAL NAME      461      0.6%     233   50.5%      11      179.3   1267.7  
  ISSN                 5      0.0%       4   80.0%      12       12.0      0.0  
  ISBN                 6      0.0%       6    100%       0        0.0      0.0  
  ID NUMBER            3      0.0%       0    0.0%       1        1.0      0.0  
  PRODUCT NUMBER       7      0.0%       5   71.4%     222      222.0    311.1  
  STANDARD NUMBER     22      0.0%      12   54.5%       1        1.6      1.3  
  ISN                  0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0  
  AT               3,195      4.5%     849   26.6%      18      479.5   2535.5  
  Other indexes        3      0.0%       3    100%       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        13,590     25.0%   4,547   33.5%       8      298.8   2320.6  
  Single          40,805     75.0%   9,567   23.4%      16      571.6   4951.0  
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
PRESENT commands, by type:                                                      
  MARC                                                      43.3%               
  OPAC                                                      31.8%