MELSRV INSPEC DATABASES Z39.50 SERVER STATISTICS                   
               Time period: 08/01/99 through 08/31/99                           
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
1.0  SUMMARY STATISTICS                                                         
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Relative use of INSPEC databases:                                               
                                                                                
                                                 Number of                      
                                 Searches        Records Presented              
                                 ________        _________________              
    INS (current)                  26,838              1,551,102                
    INS90                           6,993                123,206                
    INS85                           5,090                 58,164                
    INS80                           4,248                 32,996                
    INS69                           4,408                 47,890                
                                                                                
                                                                                
    Per hour usage:                                                             
         Time                    Searches        Records Presented              
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    12-2  a.m.                      1,385                   28,188              
     2-4  a.m.                        738                    7,976              
     4-6  a.m.                        831                   12,565              
     6-8  a.m.                        768                   99,061              
     8-10 a.m.                      2,706                   82,451              
    10-12 a.m.                      7,741                  317,278              
    12-2  p.m.                      6,979                  258,094              
     2-4  p.m.                     10,374                  403,341              
     4-6  p.m.                      8,464                  311,953              
     6-8  p.m.                      3,516                  136,134              
     8-10 p.m.                      2,049                   64,549              
    10-12 p.m.                      2,026                   91,768              
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        Total:                     47,577                1,813,358              
                                                                                
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                                                       1,135            
Davis                                                             62            
Irvine                                                           117            
Los Angeles                                                       99            
Riverside                                                          3            
San Diego                                                      4,891            
San Francisco                                                     44            
Santa Barbara                                                    157            
Santa Cruz                                                       182            
Lawrence Berkeley                                                 31            
Lawrence Livermore                                                22            
Los Alamos                                                         0            
MELWEB                                                        40,521            
Other - UC                                                       152            
Other-Network UC                                                 161            
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                                                              47,577            
                                                                                
                                                                                
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                                                     307,784            
Davis                                                            761            
Irvine                                                         1,942            
Los Angeles                                                    1,092            
Riverside                                                        876            
San Diego                                                      2,277            
San Francisco                                                    185            
Santa Barbara                                                  4,957            
Santa Cruz                                                         0            
Lawrence Berkeley                                                488            
Lawrence Livermore                                               746            
Los Alamos                                                         0            
MELWEB                                                     1,490,080            
Other - UC                                                       208            
Other-Network UC                                               1,962            
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                                                           1,813,358            
                                                                                
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                                         1.4                
  Standard deviation in seconds                             10.8                
                                                                                
Present response time from receipt of present request                           
DLA until transmission of a present response:                                   
  Average in seconds                                         0.3                
  Standard deviation in seconds                              1.0                
                                                                                
                                                                                
2.0  INSPEC Databases Detailed Statistics                                       
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Median session length (minutes:seconds)                    21:51                
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   20:39                
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                154:58                
Average number of searches completed per session             0.0                
Retrievals per search - median                               3.0                
Retrievals per search - average                            354.4                
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                5297.4                
Percent of searches completed with 0 results                29.7%               
                                                                                
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                                          47,577          11.0%         
  PRESENT                                        362,322          83.9%         
  INIT or CLOSE                                   21,302           4.9%         
  OTHER                                              407           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 17,154     28.6%   4,558   26.6%       9       55.5    511.2  
  TITLE WORD       9,168     15.3%   3,080   33.6%       5      111.2   1538.3  
  EXACT TITLE        554      0.9%     260   46.9%       1       21.9    240.1  
  JOURNAL          3,675      6.1%   1,388   37.8%      47      978.0   6291.0  
  EXACT JOURNAL      586      1.0%     267   45.6%     273     2788.5   6440.8  
  SUBJECT          1,974      3.3%     702   35.6%       9      205.2    981.2  
  EXACT SUBJECT      519      0.9%     125   24.1%       4      275.8   2450.4  
  THESAURUS            7      0.0%       7    100%       0        0.0      0.0  
  EXACT THESAURUS    171      0.3%      24   14.0%      19      517.3   1227.9  
  KEYWORD         19,246     32.0%   5,878   30.5%      13      896.9   9489.5  
  SUBFILE             86      0.1%      14   16.3%      26      782.0   5615.4  
  FORM               495      0.8%     104   21.0%      19      287.8   2455.1  
  DATE               464      0.8%     113   24.4%      10      130.1    636.5  
  ADDED              196      0.3%     139   70.9%       3       10.2     21.5  
  ARTICLE             49      0.1%       8   16.3%      33     1383.0   7427.7  
  AUTHOR AFFIL.      894      1.5%     374   41.8%       9       69.2    411.2  
  CONFERENCE         187      0.3%      96   51.3%      61      631.4   1575.8  
  LANGUAGE         1,667      2.8%     415   24.9%      19      388.3   1935.6  
  CHEMICAL NAME      344      0.6%     169   49.1%       8       67.1    191.6  
  ISSN                 2      0.0%       2    100%       0        0.0      0.0  
  ISBN                 2      0.0%       2    100%       0        0.0      0.0  
  ID NUMBER            1      0.0%       1    100%       0        0.0      0.0  
  PRODUCT NUMBER       2      0.0%       2    100%       0        0.0      0.0  
  STANDARD NUMBER      1      0.0%       1    100%       0        0.0      0.0  
  ISN                  0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0  
  AT               2,621      4.4%     616   23.5%      20      366.9   1996.9  
  Other indexes        9      0.0%       8   88.9%     718      718.0      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        10,365     21.8%   3,421   33.0%       7      189.5   1431.5  
  Single          37,212     78.2%  10,712   28.8%      12      586.6   7051.2  
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
PRESENT commands, by type:                                                      
  MARC                                                      53.8%               
  OPAC                                                      28.5%