MELSRV NEWSPAPER ARTICLES DATABASES Z39.50 SERVER STATISTICS       
               Time period: 05/01/99 through 05/31/99                           
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
1.0  SUMMARY STATISTICS                                                         
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    Per hour usage:                                                             
         Time                    Searches        Records Presented              
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    12-2  a.m.                        492                   11,071              
     2-4  a.m.                        167                    2,084              
     4-6  a.m.                         70                    1,145              
     6-8  a.m.                        151                    2,079              
     8-10 a.m.                      1,006                   14,515              
    10-12 a.m.                      2,653                   45,929              
    12-2  p.m.                      3,614                   62,279              
     2-4  p.m.                      3,946                   75,083              
     4-6  p.m.                      3,175                   55,814              
     6-8  p.m.                      2,115                   38,099              
     8-10 p.m.                      2,003                   40,817              
    10-12 p.m.                      1,268                   26,195              
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        Total:                     20,660                  375,110              
                                                                                
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                                                              6            
Irvine                                                            13            
Los Angeles                                                        4            
Riverside                                                          4            
San Diego                                                      1,234            
San Francisco                                                      2            
Santa Barbara                                                     24            
Santa Cruz                                                       348            
Lawrence Berkeley                                                  0            
Lawrence Livermore                                                 0            
Los Alamos                                                         0            
MELWEB                                                        18,076            
Other - UC                                                       931            
Other-Network UC                                                  14            
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                                                              20,660            
                                                                                
                                                                                
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                                                           1            
Davis                                                            100            
Irvine                                                           195            
Los Angeles                                                       25            
Riverside                                                         19            
San Diego                                                         82            
San Francisco                                                      0            
Santa Barbara                                                    110            
Santa Cruz                                                         0            
Lawrence Berkeley                                                  0            
Lawrence Livermore                                                 0            
Los Alamos                                                         0            
MELWEB                                                       362,342            
Other - UC                                                    11,996            
Other-Network UC                                                 240            
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                                                             375,110            
                                                                                
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                              9.0                
                                                                                
Present response time from receipt of present request                           
DLA until transmission of a present response:                                   
  Average in seconds                                         0.4                
  Standard deviation in seconds                              2.0                
                                                                                
                                                                                
2.0  NEWSPAPER ARTICLES Database Detailed Statistics                            
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Median session length (minutes:seconds)                    22:32                
Average session length (minutes:seconds)                   21:38                
Longest session recorded (minutes:seconds)                165:43                
Average number of searches completed per session             0.0                
Retrievals per search - median                               3.0                
Retrievals per search - average                            711.5                
Retrievals per search - standard deviation                 15450                
Percent of searches completed with 0 results                34.1%               
                                                                                
Percent of searches entered that are long                    0.2%               
Percent of long searches completed                                              
  (includes partial results)                                 100%               
                                                                                
Commands entered, by type, excluding errors:                                    
                                                   Total     Percentage         
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  SEARCH                                          20,658          19.8%         
  PRESENT                                         77,301          74.1%         
  INIT or CLOSE                                    6,199           5.9%         
  OTHER                                              183           0.2%         
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  1,098      3.7%     555   50.5%      14      295.3    749.1  
  TITLE WORD       2,052      6.9%     872   42.5%      11      506.6   3292.2  
  EXACT TITLE        216      0.7%     153   70.8%       1      226.4    692.4  
  JOURNAL TITLE       88      0.3%      73   83.0%   5,035     305807   468182  
  EXACT JOURNAL    1,080      3.6%     367   34.0%      14      792.3  13918.0  
  SUBJECT WORD     3,190     10.7%   1,563   49.0%      16      475.8   2706.7  
  EXACT SUBJECT    1,737      5.8%     472   27.2%       9      706.1   5562.9  
  KEYWORD         13,693     45.8%   4,166   30.4%      23      765.9   5233.3  
  DATE             2,040      6.8%     677   33.2%      11       95.5    453.1  
  ADDED SINCE        276      0.9%     126   45.6%       5       94.9    496.3  
  PUB TYPE           231      0.8%     158   68.4%      34      282.7   1219.6  
  SUBFILE             90      0.3%      50   55.6%      12     2690.2  10420.0  
  ID                  18      0.1%       1    5.6%       1        1.0      0.0  
  ISSN                 5      0.0%       3   60.0%  11,057    11057.0      0.0  
  SIC                  0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0  
  ILLUS               25      0.1%      12   48.0%      35      773.8   2625.1  
  ARTICLE             92      0.3%      53   57.6%       3       21.3     46.0  
  ISN                  0      0.0%       0    0.0%       0        0.0      0.0  
  AT               3,948     13.2%   1,228   31.1%      31      674.9   2941.4  
  Other indexes       24      0.1%       9   37.5%      10       21.9     24.5  
                                                                                
                                                           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         6,453     31.2%   2,295   35.6%      21      520.8   2634.4  
  Single          14,205     68.8%   4,752   33.4%      20     1325.9  22756.8  
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
PRESENT commands, by type:                                                      
  MARC                                                      43.6%               
  OPAC                                                      38.5%