MELSRV NEWSPAPER ARTICLES DATABASES Z39.50 SERVER STATISTICS       
               Time period: 03/01/99 through 03/31/99                           
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
1.0  SUMMARY STATISTICS                                                         
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    Per hour usage:                                                             
         Time                    Searches        Records Presented              
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    12-2  a.m.                        440                    5,741              
     2-4  a.m.                        168                    2,509              
     4-6  a.m.                         85                    1,523              
     6-8  a.m.                        111                    1,545              
     8-10 a.m.                        776                   13,959              
    10-12 a.m.                      2,239                   28,890              
    12-2  p.m.                      2,758                   45,144              
     2-4  p.m.                      3,454                   60,212              
     4-6  p.m.                      2,690                   47,935              
     6-8  p.m.                      1,631                   28,030              
     8-10 p.m.                      1,457                   29,497              
    10-12 p.m.                        951                   18,849              
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        Total:                     16,760                  283,834              
                                                                                
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                                                           4            
Davis                                                              2            
Irvine                                                            32            
Los Angeles                                                        7            
Riverside                                                          0            
San Diego                                                      1,155            
San Francisco                                                     13            
Santa Barbara                                                      0            
Santa Cruz                                                        92            
Lawrence Berkeley                                                  0            
Lawrence Livermore                                                 0            
Los Alamos                                                         0            
MELWEB                                                        14,871            
Other - UC                                                       564            
Other-Network UC                                                  20            
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                                                              16,760            
                                                                                
                                                                                
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                                                           0            
Davis                                                              6            
Irvine                                                           128            
Los Angeles                                                       10            
Riverside                                                          0            
San Diego                                                         38            
San Francisco                                                     62            
Santa Barbara                                                      0            
Santa Cruz                                                         0            
Lawrence Berkeley                                                  0            
Lawrence Livermore                                                 0            
Los Alamos                                                         0            
MELWEB                                                       279,939            
Other - UC                                                     3,514            
Other-Network UC                                                 137            
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                                                             283,834            
                                                                                
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                                         1.3                
  Standard deviation in seconds                              8.6                
                                                                                
Present response time from receipt of present request                           
DLA until transmission of a present response:                                   
  Average in seconds                                         0.4                
  Standard deviation in seconds                              1.1                
                                                                                
                                                                                
2.0  NEWSPAPER ARTICLES Database Detailed Statistics                            
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Median session length (minutes:seconds)                    22:14                
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   20:41                
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                148:57                
Average number of searches completed per session             0.0                
Retrievals per search - median                               3.0                
Retrievals per search - average                            685.3                
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                9171.0                
Percent of searches completed with 0 results                35.7%               
                                                                                
Percent of searches entered that are long                    0.3%               
Percent of long searches completed                                              
  (includes partial results)                                 100%               
                                                                                
Commands entered, by type, excluding errors:                                    
                                                   Total     Percentage         
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  SEARCH                                          16,760          20.3%         
  PRESENT                                         60,750          73.6%         
  INIT or CLOSE                                    4,960           6.0%         
  OTHER                                               36           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:                                                                     
  PERSONAL AUTHOR    883      3.7%     471   53.3%      18      397.9   1135.5  
  TITLE WORD       1,797      7.6%     803   44.7%       8      374.7   2138.4  
  EXACT TITLE        201      0.8%     153   76.1%       1       19.8     63.3  
  JOURNAL TITLE       83      0.4%      77   92.8%       1     188347   317465  
  EXACT JOURNAL      832      3.5%     316   38.0%      19      356.9   2386.0  
  SUBJECT WORD     2,583     10.9%   1,427   55.2%      16      626.8   3175.2  
  EXACT SUBJECT    1,264      5.3%     351   27.8%       9      344.5   3199.4  
  KEYWORD         11,225     47.3%   3,494   31.1%      26     1146.5   9274.5  
  DATE             1,420      6.0%     560   39.4%      16      214.5    925.6  
  ADDED SINCE         67      0.3%      36   53.7%       6      293.5   1564.9  
  PUB TYPE           218      0.9%     162   74.3%       5       74.9    271.5  
  SUBFILE             53      0.2%      34   64.1%      82     1730.9   3448.0  
  ID                   2      0.0%       1   50.0%       1        1.0      0.0  
  ISSN                 2      0.0%       2    100%       0        0.0      0.0  
  SIC                  3      0.0%       0    0.0%      31       25.3     22.1  
  ILLUS                2      0.0%       1   50.0%       9        9.0      0.0  
  ARTICLE            105      0.4%      62   59.0%       3       33.7     71.1  
  ISN                  0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0  
  AT               2,968     12.5%   1,022   34.4%      34      763.7   3805.2  
  Other indexes        3      0.0%       1   33.3%      79       79.0      0.0  
                                                                                
                                                           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         4,947     29.5%   1,977   40.0%      24      607.1   3327.0  
  Single          11,813     70.5%   4,012   34.0%      22     1241.2  13259.9  
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
PRESENT commands, by type:                                                      
  MARC                                                      42.9%               
  OPAC                                                      36.1%