MELSRV MEDLINE AND MEDLINE DATABASES Z39.50 SERVER STATISTICS      
               Time period: 03/01/99 through 03/31/99                           
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
1.0  SUMMARY STATISTICS                                                         
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Relative use of MEDLINE AND MEDLINE databases:                                  
                                                                                
                                                 Number of                      
                                 Searches        Records Presented              
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    MED (current)                 183,974             10,662,019                
    MED90                          27,281                814,461                
    MED85                          14,567                328,467                
    MED80                           8,648                160,233                
    MED75                           5,453                 90,837                
    MED66                           4,880                 93,321                
                                                                                
                                                                                
    Per hour usage:                                                             
         Time                    Searches        Records Presented              
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    12-2  a.m.                      2,617                  154,352              
     2-4  a.m.                      1,646                   61,226              
     4-6  a.m.                        598                   33,036              
     6-8  a.m.                      2,874                  116,193              
     8-10 a.m.                     18,603                  867,669              
    10-12 a.m.                     39,458                1,913,034              
    12-2  p.m.                     42,793                2,090,637              
     2-4  p.m.                     50,246                2,425,042              
     4-6  p.m.                     41,616                2,099,028              
     6-8  p.m.                     21,769                1,172,171              
     8-10 p.m.                     14,267                  760,343              
    10-12 p.m.                      8,316                  456,607              
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        Total:                    244,803               12,149,338              
                                                                                
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                                                       2,929            
Davis                                                          2,012            
Irvine                                                         1,297            
Los Angeles                                                    3,681            
Riverside                                                        144            
San Diego                                                      5,262            
San Francisco                                                  6,945            
Santa Barbara                                                    259            
Santa Cruz                                                       155            
Lawrence Berkeley                                                371            
Lawrence Livermore                                               176            
Los Alamos                                                         0            
MELWEB                                                       217,283            
Other - UC                                                       444            
Other-Network UC                                               3,845            
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                                                             244,803            
                                                                                
                                                                                
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                                                      21,075            
Davis                                                         16,120            
Irvine                                                         9,305            
Los Angeles                                                   35,598            
Riverside                                                      1,688            
San Diego                                                     27,594            
San Francisco                                                 69,673            
Santa Barbara                                                  1,096            
Santa Cruz                                                       383            
Lawrence Berkeley                                              2,201            
Lawrence Livermore                                             5,472            
Los Alamos                                                         0            
MELWEB                                                    11,917,367            
Other - UC                                                    13,376            
Other-Network UC                                              28,390            
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                                                          12,149,338            
                                                                                
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                                         2.1                
  Standard deviation in seconds                              9.1                
                                                                                
Present response time from receipt of present request                           
DLA until transmission of a present response:                                   
  Average in seconds                                         0.3                
  Standard deviation in seconds                              0.6                
                                                                                
                                                                                
2.0  MEDLINE AND MEDLINE Databases Detailed Statistics                          
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Median session length (minutes:seconds)                    24:27                
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   27:15                
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                301:39                
Average number of searches completed per session             0.0                
Retrievals per search - median                               5.0                
Retrievals per search - average                            454.5                
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                5092.9                
Percent of searches completed with 0 results                27.1%               
                                                                                
Percent of searches entered that are long                    0.0%               
Percent of long searches completed                                              
  (includes partial results)                                 100%               
                                                                                
Commands entered, by type, excluding errors:                                    
                                                   Total     Percentage         
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  SEARCH                                         244,803           9.7%         
  PRESENT                                      2,226,629          87.9%         
  INIT or CLOSE                                   59,528           2.3%         
  OTHER                                            2,171           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:                                                                     
  JOURNAL         19,245      5.0%   8,843   45.9%       4      923.6   4454.6  
  PERSONAL AUTHOR 82,098     21.5%  23,131   28.2%       7       99.9    873.3  
  TITLE WORD      29,586      7.7%  11,373   38.4%       4      230.0   2481.1  
  SUBSET             817      0.2%     174   21.3%      43      250.3    942.6  
  SUBJECT WORD     3,721      1.0%   2,159   58.0%      16     1526.6   8404.2  
  SUBJECT          9,770      2.6%   4,448   45.5%      26      638.1   5533.4  
  EXACT SUBJECT   21,471      5.6%   4,906   22.8%      42      702.0   5256.2  
  MAJOR SUBJECT      745      0.2%     252   33.8%      22      676.1  10644.5  
  EXACT MAJOR SUBJ 2,156      0.6%     392   18.2%      21      280.7   2228.9  
  EXACT TITLE      1,954      0.5%   1,193   61.1%       1       56.0    415.8  
  TREE NUMBER          0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0  
  EXACT JOURNAL    4,360      1.1%   1,525   35.0%     275     1494.4   2977.3  
  MAJOR TREE NUM       1      0.0%       0    0.0%       5        5.0      0.0  
  CAS                 58      0.0%      26   44.8%     215     1950.5   7247.2  
  KEYWORD         127569     33.4%  29,370   23.0%      23      815.1   7418.7  
  DATE            10,192      2.7%   3,191   31.3%       6      140.4   1021.4  
  LANGUAGE        27,408      7.2%   6,446   23.5%      37      587.4   4119.8  
  UNIQUE ID          812      0.2%     121   14.9%       1        1.0      0.1  
  ADDED              686      0.2%     313   45.6%       7       29.5     60.9  
  PUB TYPE        10,958      2.9%   2,100   19.2%      30      208.9    876.9  
  AUTHOR AFFIL.    3,735      1.0%   1,825   48.9%       8      111.5    806.6  
  CHEMICAL NAME       65      0.0%      45   69.2%      15      354.8    845.3  
  EXACT CHEMICAL      19      0.0%      13   68.4%     176      407.8    489.1  
  AT              21,488      5.6%   5,590   26.0%      30      756.7   5288.6  
  AGE              1,059      0.3%     284   26.8%      23      154.6    440.1  
  ISN                  7      0.0%       7    100%       0        0.0      0.0  
  ARTICLE            612      0.2%     127   20.8%      46      443.1   2159.7  
  XXS                925      0.2%     382   41.3%      22      762.4   3097.4  
  XMXS               341      0.1%     145   42.5%      41      859.7   3105.3  
  XS 2                 0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0  
  MXS 2                0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0  
  Other indexes        5      0.0%       1   20.0%   2,492     2482.8   2837.4  
                                                                                
                                                           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        86,419     35.3%  27,634   32.0%      11      449.0   3890.5  
  Single         158,384     64.7%  38,700   24.4%      18      709.0   6741.0  
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
PRESENT commands, by type:                                                      
  MARC                                                      33.5%               
  OPAC                                                      28.2%