MELSRV MEDLINE AND MEDLINE DATABASES Z39.50 SERVER STATISTICS      
               Time period: 10/01/99 through 10/31/99                           
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
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)                 130,867              8,114,013                
    MED90                          24,958                668,086                
    MED85                          16,872                279,471                
    MED80                          13,687                135,867                
    MED75                          12,308                 87,314                
    MED66                          12,393                 81,493                
                                                                                
                                                                                
    Per hour usage:                                                             
         Time                    Searches        Records Presented              
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    12-2  a.m.                      3,103                  114,831              
     2-4  a.m.                      2,243                   76,095              
     4-6  a.m.                        431                   20,463              
     6-8  a.m.                      2,022                   99,041              
     8-10 a.m.                     15,720                  657,711              
    10-12 a.m.                     34,866                1,533,405              
    12-2  p.m.                     35,928                1,556,579              
     2-4  p.m.                     42,836                1,883,349              
     4-6  p.m.                     35,620                1,603,352              
     6-8  p.m.                     18,408                  860,183              
     8-10 p.m.                     12,387                  540,756              
    10-12 p.m.                      7,521                  420,479              
    __________              _____________        _________________              
        Total:                    211,085                9,366,244              
                                                                                
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                                                       1,944            
Davis                                                          1,316            
Irvine                                                           506            
Los Angeles                                                    1,893            
Riverside                                                        200            
San Diego                                                      3,136            
San Francisco                                                  3,899            
Santa Barbara                                                    541            
Santa Cruz                                                       393            
Lawrence Berkeley                                                210            
Lawrence Livermore                                                50            
Los Alamos                                                         0            
MELWEB                                                        96,738            
Other - UC                                                    97,959            
Other-Network UC                                               2,300            
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                                                             211,085            
                                                                                
                                                                                
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                                                     124,202            
Davis                                                         18,584            
Irvine                                                         7,803            
Los Angeles                                                   25,809            
Riverside                                                      1,411            
San Diego                                                     16,277            
San Francisco                                                 59,438            
Santa Barbara                                                  5,679            
Santa Cruz                                                       735            
Lawrence Berkeley                                              2,029            
Lawrence Livermore                                               820            
Los Alamos                                                         0            
MELWEB                                                     4,329,103            
Other - UC                                                 4,745,970            
Other-Network UC                                              28,384            
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                                                           9,366,244            
                                                                                
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                                         1.5                
  Standard deviation in seconds                              5.4                
                                                                                
Present response time from receipt of present request                           
DLA until transmission of a present response:                                   
  Average in seconds                                         0.4                
  Standard deviation in seconds                              1.0                
                                                                                
                                                                                
2.0  MEDLINE AND MEDLINE Databases Detailed Statistics                          
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Median session length (minutes:seconds)                    23:08                
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   25:51                
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                341:05                
Average number of searches completed per session             0.0                
Retrievals per search - median                               4.0                
Retrievals per search - average                            386.4                
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                5236.4                
Percent of searches completed with 0 results                30.3%               
                                                                                
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                                         211,085          10.9%         
  PRESENT                                      1,645,935          85.2%         
  INIT or CLOSE                                   73,099           3.8%         
  OTHER                                            1,523           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         14,640      4.6%   5,799   39.6%       4      913.1   8417.4  
  PERSONAL AUTHOR 61,576     19.2%  16,714   27.1%       7       76.3    732.0  
  TITLE WORD      23,509      7.3%   8,884   37.8%       4      145.7   1072.0  
  SUBSET             814      0.3%     207   25.4%      32      229.1    694.7  
  SUBJECT WORD     1,519      0.5%     780   51.3%      18     1464.0  12031.0  
  SUBJECT          8,498      2.6%   4,583   53.9%      18      603.2   3631.2  
  EXACT SUBJECT   18,568      5.8%   4,868   26.2%      32      497.8   3425.6  
  MAJOR SUBJECT      638      0.2%     271   42.5%      17      177.7    608.9  
  EXACT MAJOR SUBJ 1,541      0.5%     246   16.0%      23      452.1   3485.8  
  EXACT TITLE      1,840      0.6%   1,121   60.9%       1       19.3    128.9  
  TREE NUMBER          6      0.0%       0    0.0%     276      595.5    759.6  
  EXACT JOURNAL    3,578      1.1%   1,062   29.7%     273     1447.9   3545.7  
  MAJOR TREE NUM       0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0  
  CAS                159      0.0%      41   25.8%      20     1487.1  15604.4  
  KEYWORD         119138     37.1%  35,174   29.5%      19      703.7   7576.1  
  DATE             5,712      1.8%   1,314   23.0%       6      132.5    639.7  
  LANGUAGE        23,646      7.4%   6,683   28.3%      30      415.5   2600.3  
  UNIQUE ID          994      0.3%     283   28.5%       1        1.0      0.4  
  ADDED            1,818      0.6%     912   50.2%       6       18.2     32.5  
  PUB TYPE         9,978      3.1%   2,618   26.2%      23      142.4    471.1  
  AUTHOR AFFIL.    2,048      0.6%   1,002   48.9%       8      146.7   1809.8  
  CHEMICAL NAME       36      0.0%      27   75.0%      12       10.3      9.0  
  EXACT CHEMICAL       4      0.0%       3   75.0%       2        2.0      0.0  
  AT              18,388      5.7%   5,665   30.8%      24      542.2   2834.3  
  AGE                962      0.3%     224   23.3%      21      140.3    425.2  
  ISN                  2      0.0%       2    100%       0        0.0      0.0  
  ARTICLE            623      0.2%     164   26.3%      30      330.4   1427.1  
  XXS                724      0.2%     325   44.9%      18      423.8   1873.2  
  XMXS               355      0.1%     152   42.8%      10      104.0    543.5  
  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       86      0.0%      55   64.0%       9       38.9     50.9  
                                                                                
                                                           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        67,719     32.1%  22,326   33.0%      10      314.9   2407.3  
  Single         143,366     67.9%  41,536   29.0%      16      660.6   7354.3  
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
PRESENT commands, by type:                                                      
  MARC                                                      35.3%               
  OPAC                                                      26.7%