MELSRV MEDLINE AND MEDLINE 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 MEDLINE AND MEDLINE databases:                                  
                                                                                
                                                 Number of                      
                                 Searches        Records Presented              
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    MED (current)                 153,195              8,839,668                
    MED90                          32,447                933,693                
    MED85                          20,506                351,045                
    MED80                          15,922                167,177                
    MED75                          13,871                102,945                
    MED66                          13,845                115,339                
                                                                                
                                                                                
    Per hour usage:                                                             
         Time                    Searches        Records Presented              
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    12-2  a.m.                      3,393                  106,808              
     2-4  a.m.                      3,064                   73,333              
     4-6  a.m.                        816                   21,478              
     6-8  a.m.                      2,860                  107,106              
     8-10 a.m.                     20,366                  839,250              
    10-12 a.m.                     43,100                1,759,662              
    12-2  p.m.                     43,758                1,796,657              
     2-4  p.m.                     54,654                2,348,592              
     4-6  p.m.                     42,252                1,803,763              
     6-8  p.m.                     18,319                  846,060              
     8-10 p.m.                     10,552                  495,589              
    10-12 p.m.                      6,652                  311,569              
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        Total:                    249,786               10,509,867              
                                                                                
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                                                       1,950            
Davis                                                          2,189            
Irvine                                                           970            
Los Angeles                                                    3,159            
Riverside                                                        192            
San Diego                                                      9,017            
San Francisco                                                  5,192            
Santa Barbara                                                    132            
Santa Cruz                                                       363            
Lawrence Berkeley                                                754            
Lawrence Livermore                                                75            
Los Alamos                                                         0            
MELWEB                                                       222,502            
Other - UC                                                       427            
Other-Network UC                                               2,864            
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                                                             249,786            
                                                                                
                                                                                
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                                                      18,334            
Davis                                                         26,761            
Irvine                                                         9,039            
Los Angeles                                                   36,613            
Riverside                                                      1,704            
San Diego                                                     29,050            
San Francisco                                                 61,688            
Santa Barbara                                                  1,951            
Santa Cruz                                                     1,845            
Lawrence Berkeley                                              5,040            
Lawrence Livermore                                               478            
Los Alamos                                                         0            
MELWEB                                                    10,282,241            
Other - UC                                                     3,395            
Other-Network UC                                              31,728            
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                                                          10,509,867            
                                                                                
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                                       17840                
  Standard deviation in seconds                           7.49E6                
                                                                                
Present response time from receipt of present request                           
DLA until transmission of a present response:                                   
  Average in seconds                                         0.4                
  Standard deviation in seconds                              1.2                
                                                                                
                                                                                
2.0  MEDLINE AND MEDLINE Databases Detailed Statistics                          
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Median session length (minutes:seconds)                    22:51                
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   24:46                
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                364:09                
Average number of searches completed per session             0.0                
Retrievals per search - median                               4.0                
Retrievals per search - average                            345.3                
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                4145.8                
Percent of searches completed with 0 results                29.0%               
                                                                                
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                                         249,786          11.4%         
  PRESENT                                      1,858,360          84.7%         
  INIT or CLOSE                                   85,620           3.9%         
  OTHER                                              812           0.0%         
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         18,209      4.9%   7,476   41.1%       4      696.3   4949.8  
  PERSONAL AUTHOR 86,770     23.5%  23,860   27.5%       7       79.2    934.3  
  TITLE WORD      27,890      7.5%  10,210   36.6%       3      176.3   1946.1  
  SUBSET             764      0.2%     153   20.0%      24      204.3   1137.3  
  SUBJECT WORD     2,152      0.6%   1,216   56.5%      14     1087.2   8502.4  
  SUBJECT          8,439      2.3%   4,171   49.4%      23      523.4   3255.3  
  EXACT SUBJECT   17,967      4.9%   4,588   25.5%      29      446.4   2805.0  
  MAJOR SUBJECT      685      0.2%     289   42.2%      25     1114.6   6366.7  
  EXACT MAJOR SUBJ 1,404      0.4%     228   16.2%      25      230.4    673.7  
  EXACT TITLE      2,369      0.6%   1,375   58.0%       1       31.3    259.6  
  TREE NUMBER          1      0.0%       0    0.0%       8        8.0      0.0  
  EXACT JOURNAL    4,012      1.1%   1,198   29.9%      69     1098.6   2513.2  
  MAJOR TREE NUM       2      0.0%       1   50.0%     315      315.0      0.0  
  CAS                229      0.1%      90   39.3%      13      214.4   1397.0  
  KEYWORD         134069     36.3%  37,781   28.2%      20      661.0   6253.3  
  DATE             7,510      2.0%   1,748   23.3%       5       82.0    576.0  
  LANGUAGE        23,752      6.4%   6,752   28.4%      26      433.5   3769.6  
  UNIQUE ID          729      0.2%     206   28.3%       1        1.1      0.8  
  ADDED            1,676      0.5%     828   49.4%       6       53.6   1097.9  
  PUB TYPE        11,360      3.1%   3,060   26.9%      20      118.6    540.7  
  AUTHOR AFFIL.    2,351      0.6%   1,006   42.8%       7      116.5   1091.7  
  CHEMICAL NAME       32      0.0%      23   71.9%      49       92.6    123.0  
  EXACT CHEMICAL      11      0.0%      10   90.9%      26       26.0      0.0  
  AT              14,714      4.0%   4,398   29.9%      21      431.0   3223.0  
  AGE                883      0.2%     202   22.9%      26      196.2    904.1  
  ISN                  3      0.0%       3    100%       0        0.0      0.0  
  ARTICLE            374      0.1%      73   19.5%      39      418.4   1939.5  
  XXS                916      0.2%     386   42.1%      18      874.1   6111.9  
  XMXS               414      0.1%     182   44.0%       9      244.9   1357.1  
  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       44      0.0%      28   63.6%      21       40.7     46.8  
                                                                                
                                                           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        77,438     31.0%  25,849   33.4%       8      265.1   2691.6  
  Single         172,348     69.0%  46,537   27.0%      16      576.9   5570.4  
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
PRESENT commands, by type:                                                      
  MARC                                                      35.3%               
  OPAC                                                      26.4%