MELSRV MEDLINE AND MEDLINE 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 MEDLINE AND MEDLINE databases:

                                                 Number of
                                 Searches        Records Presented
                                 ________        _________________
    MED (current)                 120,339              7,127,247
    MED90                          26,536                723,282
    MED85                          18,020                267,258
    MED80                          14,853                146,140
    MED75                          13,190                 93,297
    MED66                          13,235                 98,428


    Per hour usage:
         Time                    Searches        Records Presented
    _______________         _____________        _________________
    12-2  a.m.                      5,768                  136,296
     2-4  a.m.                      2,110                   40,078
     4-6  a.m.                        595                   26,010
     6-8  a.m.                      3,246                  114,273
     8-10 a.m.                     15,734                  639,628
    10-12 a.m.                     35,288                1,435,231
    12-2  p.m.                     35,753                1,553,041
     2-4  p.m.                     42,041                1,724,223
     4-6  p.m.                     33,754                1,295,405
     6-8  p.m.                     16,338                  724,226
     8-10 p.m.                      9,138                  464,987
    10-12 p.m.                      6,408                  302,254
    __________              _____________        _________________
        Total:                    206,173                8,455,652

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                                                       1,024
Davis                                                          1,623
Irvine                                                           641
Los Angeles                                                    2,623
Riverside                                                         67
San Diego                                                      4,714
San Francisco                                                  4,208
Santa Barbara                                                     26
Santa Cruz                                                       308
Lawrence Berkeley                                                221
Lawrence Livermore                                               165
Los Alamos                                                         0
MELWEB                                                       188,139
Other - UC                                                       169
Other-Network UC                                               2,245
                                                               _____
                                                             206,173


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                                                       9,377
Davis                                                         13,051
Irvine                                                         6,013
Los Angeles                                                   31,702
Riverside                                                        514
San Diego                                                     37,826
San Francisco                                                 46,660
Santa Barbara                                                    152
Santa Cruz                                                     1,357
Lawrence Berkeley                                              1,085
Lawrence Livermore                                             2,015
Los Alamos                                                         0
MELWEB                                                     8,277,725
Other - UC                                                       287
Other-Network UC                                              27,888
                                                               _____
                                                           8,455,652

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                                         1.2
  Standard deviation in seconds                              4.5

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  MEDLINE AND MEDLINE Databases Detailed Statistics
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Median session length (minutes:seconds)                    22:30
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   23:30
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                307:50
Average number of searches completed per session             0.0
Retrievals per search - median                               3.0
Retrievals per search - average                            333.1
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                4096.9
Percent of searches completed with 0 results                32.5%

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
                                              __________     __________
  SEARCH                                         206,173          11.8%
  PRESENT                                      1,473,575          84.1%
  INIT or CLOSE                                   72,758           4.2%
  OTHER                                              519           0.0%
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:
  JOURNAL         14,130      4.7%   5,945   42.1%       4      724.4   3396.4
  PERSONAL AUTHOR 69,682     23.1%  19,461   27.9%       7       77.6    775.8
  TITLE WORD      24,189      8.0%   9,347   38.6%       3      164.2   1731.1
  SUBSET             675      0.2%     175   25.9%      24      215.6   1141.1
  SUBJECT WORD     1,665      0.6%     789   47.4%      11     1125.3   6743.2
  SUBJECT          6,837      2.3%   3,761   55.0%      17      831.8   6262.6
  EXACT SUBJECT   12,703      4.2%   3,499   27.5%      32      435.1   3014.5
  MAJOR SUBJECT      424      0.1%     188   44.3%      19      405.1   1936.1
  EXACT MAJOR SUBJ 1,159      0.4%     256   22.1%      30      495.3   4090.0
  EXACT TITLE      2,145      0.7%   1,219   56.8%       1       17.3    174.1
  TREE NUMBER          0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  EXACT JOURNAL    4,188      1.4%   1,955   46.7%     220     1235.5   2719.0
  MAJOR TREE NUM       0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0
  CAS                 31      0.0%      15   48.4%       7      158.1    297.6
  KEYWORD         110233     36.6%  35,983   32.6%      18      668.0   6437.5
  DATE             6,391      2.1%   1,473   23.0%       5      155.2   1069.8
  LANGUAGE        17,229      5.7%   4,895   28.4%      29      392.1   2701.4
  UNIQUE ID          864      0.3%     194   22.5%       1        1.1      0.6
  ADDED            3,317      1.1%   3,315   99.9%      20       20.0     25.5
  PUB TYPE         7,852      2.6%   2,083   26.5%      22      143.5    987.7
  AUTHOR AFFIL.    2,235      0.7%   1,022   45.7%       9      119.8   1834.8
  CHEMICAL NAME       55      0.0%      32   58.2%       4      122.2    243.4
  EXACT CHEMICAL      34      0.0%      33   97.1%       3        3.0      0.0
  AT              13,322      4.4%   4,532   34.0%      22      526.5   2911.4
  AGE                462      0.2%      75   16.2%      26      121.1    306.0
  ISN                 24      0.0%      24    100%       0        0.0      0.0
  ARTICLE            288      0.1%      93   32.3%      44      813.9   6263.6
  XXS                791      0.3%     432   54.6%      20      562.7   2167.0
  XMXS               230      0.1%     143   62.2%      13      931.2   3734.3
  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       40      0.0%      22   55.0%      15     1070.3   2975.1

                                                           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        63,567     30.8%  23,506   37.0%       7      273.3   2370.7
  Single         142,606     69.2%  43,562   30.5%      16      582.8   5703.2



PRESENT commands, by type:
  MARC                                                      34.8%
  OPAC                                                      24.5%
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