MELSRV INSPEC DATABASES Z39.50 SERVER STATISTICS                   
               Time period: 09/01/99 through 09/30/99                           
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
1.0  SUMMARY STATISTICS                                                         
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Relative use of INSPEC databases:                                               
                                                                                
                                                 Number of                      
                                 Searches        Records Presented              
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    INS (current)                  28,707              1,420,935                
    INS90                           8,887                134,275                
    INS85                           6,598                 66,735                
    INS80                           5,553                 38,290                
    INS69                           5,702                 56,015                
                                                                                
                                                                                
    Per hour usage:                                                             
         Time                    Searches        Records Presented              
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    12-2  a.m.                      1,240                   30,902              
     2-4  a.m.                        532                   11,311              
     4-6  a.m.                        264                    3,774              
     6-8  a.m.                        497                   12,807              
     8-10 a.m.                      3,438                   90,593              
    10-12 a.m.                      9,189                  277,397              
    12-2  p.m.                      8,520                  254,075              
     2-4  p.m.                     12,734                  407,778              
     4-6  p.m.                     10,269                  334,621              
     6-8  p.m.                      4,215                  122,466              
     8-10 p.m.                      2,235                   71,579              
    10-12 p.m.                      2,314                   98,947              
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        Total:                     55,447                1,716,250              
                                                                                
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                                                         520            
Davis                                                             39            
Irvine                                                            84            
Los Angeles                                                      135            
Riverside                                                          0            
San Diego                                                      1,305            
San Francisco                                                     27            
Santa Barbara                                                    238            
Santa Cruz                                                       383            
Lawrence Berkeley                                                242            
Lawrence Livermore                                                17            
Los Alamos                                                         0            
MELWEB                                                        51,989            
Other - UC                                                       302            
Other-Network UC                                                 166            
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                                                              55,447            
                                                                                
                                                                                
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                                                      83,604            
Davis                                                            175            
Irvine                                                         1,104            
Los Angeles                                                    1,820            
Riverside                                                          0            
San Diego                                                      5,704            
San Francisco                                                    414            
Santa Barbara                                                  9,044            
Santa Cruz                                                     1,118            
Lawrence Berkeley                                              3,143            
Lawrence Livermore                                               200            
Los Alamos                                                         0            
MELWEB                                                     1,605,411            
Other - UC                                                       503            
Other-Network UC                                               4,010            
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                                                           1,716,250            
                                                                                
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                                         1.8                
  Standard deviation in seconds                             11.6                
                                                                                
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)                    22:40                
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   24:32                
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                220:40                
Average number of searches completed per session             0.0                
Retrievals per search - median                               4.0                
Retrievals per search - average                            321.9                
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                3237.3                
Percent of searches completed with 0 results                27.0%               
                                                                                
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                                          55,447          14.1%         
  PRESENT                                        312,808          79.8%         
  INIT or CLOSE                                   23,000           5.9%         
  OTHER                                              850           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 24,055     33.8%   6,494   27.0%       9       56.1    385.8  
  TITLE WORD      11,561     16.2%   4,066   35.2%       4       70.1    538.2  
  EXACT TITLE        810      1.1%     436   53.8%       1        6.0     24.4  
  JOURNAL          3,988      5.6%   1,738   43.6%      10     1300.5   6419.4  
  EXACT JOURNAL      819      1.2%     332   40.5%     258     2641.7   6022.9  
  SUBJECT          2,360      3.3%     858   36.4%      10      282.5   1384.8  
  EXACT SUBJECT      492      0.7%     138   28.0%       7      279.2   1147.7  
  THESAURUS            8      0.0%       8    100%       0        0.0      0.0  
  EXACT THESAURUS    102      0.1%      15   14.7%      26     1362.0   4165.5  
  KEYWORD         18,356     25.8%   3,928   21.4%      21      804.2   5588.8  
  SUBFILE            160      0.2%      29   18.1%      21      411.8   1767.1  
  FORM               753      1.1%     183   24.3%      19      312.5   2342.4  
  DATE               834      1.2%     165   19.8%      10       74.0    441.8  
  ADDED              293      0.4%     208   71.0%       3       13.0     29.6  
  ARTICLE             89      0.1%      23   25.8%      22      444.2   1510.6  
  AUTHOR AFFIL.      925      1.3%     426   46.1%       8       70.2    275.8  
  CONFERENCE         203      0.3%      96   47.3%      12      233.5    544.3  
  LANGUAGE         2,494      3.5%     597   23.9%      21      392.6   2138.0  
  CHEMICAL NAME      294      0.4%     180   61.2%       8       41.9    234.2  
  ISSN                 6      0.0%       3   50.0%     526      354.3    297.3  
  ISBN                22      0.0%      11   50.0%      21       39.6     72.8  
  ID NUMBER            0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0  
  PRODUCT NUMBER      10      0.0%       8   80.0%      24       24.0     25.5  
  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               2,559      3.6%     672   26.3%      15      635.0   3427.8  
  Other indexes        8      0.0%       6   75.0%      96       96.0     82.0  
                                                                                
                                                           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        13,064     23.6%   4,703   36.0%       6      234.0   1934.4  
  Single          42,383     76.4%  10,245   24.2%      14      494.5   4126.5  
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
PRESENT commands, by type:                                                      
  MARC                                                      43.1%               
  OPAC                                                      34.0%