MELSRV INSPEC DATABASES Z39.50 SERVER STATISTICS
               Time period: 12/01/99 through 12/31/99



1.0  SUMMARY STATISTICS
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Relative use of INSPEC databases:

                                                 Number of
                                 Searches        Records Presented
                                 ________        _________________
    INS (current)                  27,014              1,257,469
    INS90                           8,835                133,341
    INS85                           6,497                 52,312
    INS80                           5,574                 32,285
    INS69                           5,621                 49,431


    Per hour usage:
         Time                    Searches        Records Presented
    _______________         _____________        _________________
    12-2  a.m.                      1,571                   40,347
     2-4  a.m.                        699                   22,429
     4-6  a.m.                        293                   15,698
     6-8  a.m.                        649                   31,013
     8-10 a.m.                      2,526                   81,412
    10-12 a.m.                      7,974                  230,160
    12-2  p.m.                      8,684                  230,901
     2-4  p.m.                     11,900                  327,638
     4-6  p.m.                      9,484                  279,697
     6-8  p.m.                      4,480                  117,638
     8-10 p.m.                      2,855                   73,211
    10-12 p.m.                      2,426                   74,694
    __________              _____________        _________________
        Total:                     53,541                1,524,838

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
________                                                       _____
Berkeley                                                         114
Davis                                                             37
Irvine                                                            86
Los Angeles                                                      109
Riverside                                                          0
San Diego                                                      1,340
San Francisco                                                     24
Santa Barbara                                                    220
Santa Cruz                                                       180
Lawrence Berkeley                                                437
Lawrence Livermore                                                49
Los Alamos                                                         0
MELWEB                                                        50,591
Other - UC                                                        88
Other-Network UC                                                 266
                                                               _____
                                                              53,541


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
________                                                       _____
Berkeley                                                       8,208
Davis                                                            617
Irvine                                                           550
Los Angeles                                                    1,494
Riverside                                                          0
San Diego                                                        709
San Francisco                                                     54
Santa Barbara                                                  3,447
Santa Cruz                                                       450
Lawrence Berkeley                                              5,371
Lawrence Livermore                                             1,248
Los Alamos                                                         0
MELWEB                                                     1,497,138
Other - UC                                                         0
Other-Network UC                                               5,552
                                                               _____
                                                           1,524,838

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                                         2.0
  Standard deviation in seconds                             16.2

Present response time from receipt of present request
DLA until transmission of a present response:
  Average in seconds                                         0.2
  Standard deviation in seconds                              0.4


2.0  INSPEC Databases Detailed Statistics
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Median session length (minutes:seconds)                    22:35
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   24:01
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                192:17
Average number of searches completed per session             0.0
Retrievals per search - median                               4.0
Retrievals per search - average                            381.1
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                4547.0
Percent of searches completed with 0 results                29.6%

Percent of searches entered that are long                    0.9%
Percent of long searches completed
  (includes partial results)                                 100%

Commands entered, by type, excluding errors:
                                                   Total     Percentage
                                              __________     __________
  SEARCH                                          53,541          15.9%
  PRESENT                                        261,540          77.5%
  INIT or CLOSE                                   22,094           6.5%
  OTHER                                              485           0.1%
SEARCHes completed:                                        RETRIEVALS PER NON-
                             TOTAL    ZERO RESULTS        ZERO RESULT SEARCHES
                     _____________  ______________      ______________________
                              % of            % of
                               all         all for                        Std.
                     No.  SEARCHes     No.   Index  Median       Avg.     Dev.
                  ______ _________  ______ _______  ______ __________  _______
  By index:
  PERSONAL AUTHOR 20,989     30.3%   5,887   28.0%       9       59.6    572.1
  TITLE WORD      11,116     16.1%   4,397   39.6%       3      102.8   1643.3
  EXACT TITLE      1,156      1.7%     606   52.4%       1       13.6     94.3
  JOURNAL          3,187      4.6%   1,544   48.4%       7     1117.9   5501.1
  EXACT JOURNAL      825      1.2%     348   42.2%     260     2598.0   6743.8
  SUBJECT          3,031      4.4%   1,339   44.2%       9      311.7   1350.0
  EXACT SUBJECT      631      0.9%     175   27.7%       6      280.5   1251.4
  THESAURUS           22      0.0%      13   59.1%      10       77.6    141.3
  EXACT THESAURUS    149      0.2%      26   17.4%      71     1079.6   2769.0
  KEYWORD         18,795     27.2%   4,270   22.7%      20     1037.6   8281.4
  SUBFILE            149      0.2%      22   14.8%      31      183.7    449.0
  FORM               624      0.9%     167   26.8%      17      195.6    883.0
  DATE               851      1.2%     156   18.3%       7      120.0    660.9
  ADDED              461      0.7%     322   69.8%       3       26.3    126.3
  ARTICLE             87      0.1%      19   21.8%      98      474.7   1175.0
  AUTHOR AFFIL.      905      1.3%     349   38.6%       8      175.6    959.2
  CONFERENCE         210      0.3%      89   42.4%      13      369.3   2600.2
  LANGUAGE         2,480      3.6%     660   26.6%      24      946.8   8804.1
  CHEMICAL NAME      281      0.4%     127   45.2%      12      200.4    603.3
  ISSN                19      0.0%       6   31.6%       2       22.6     69.0
  ISBN                14      0.0%      10   71.4%      18       37.5     52.6
  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     15      0.0%      15    100%       0        0.0      0.0
  ISN                  0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  AT               3,162      4.6%   1,021   32.3%      16      376.1   2128.9
  Other indexes        6      0.0%       1   16.7%      40       94.0    152.6

                                                           RETRIEVALS PER NON-
                             TOTAL    ZERO RESULTS        ZERO RESULT SEARCHES
                     _____________  ______________      ______________________
                              % of            % of
                               all         all for                        Std.
                     No.  SEARCHes     No.   Index  Median       Avg.     Dev.
                  ______ _________  ______ _______  ______ __________  _______
  By number of indexes:
  Multiple        12,575     23.5%   4,635   36.9%       7      314.6   4352.4
  Single          40,966     76.5%  11,209   27.4%      13      601.8   5658.5



PRESENT commands, by type:
  MARC                                                      36.6%
  OPAC                                                      38.2%
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