My first database I went into was the “Dismal Scientist” database. It is used mainly by business students and faculty to find out just about anything statistical about the market or anything related with business statistics. The title “Dismal Scientist” suggested to me, that it be more about science but to my amazement was about business science, a whole different subject. Its strengths are finding market trends, business information, statistics on market values, and other business related searches. When i searched up science on the database it showed me links to the industry outlook, emerging market, economic preview, and etc which to me is a weakness that its only pertaining to business. Opportunities are everywhere in this database for selling the database easily to business companies and threats are companies that have business on their database as well as other topics. It has a search not like Google and more like a news paper. It has only a small box not really showing much you can do with it other than advanced searching. I like this database because of all the visual material put on the cover page to show readers graphs and market trends or such.
My second database I went into was “Philosopher’s Index” which is what seems to me a more specified version of EbscoHost. Of course the strengths would be having so much data on anything philosophy related if searching for material from 1940 to present. The weakness would be having only data from 1940 to present. Opportunities might be finding more material before 1940. Threats are other databases that have more material on philosophy but since its combined with EBSCOhost it seems complete with knowledge from other subjects as well. I don’t see much threat to this database. I find this database very useful for finding material because with control vocabulary it makes searching more simpler. With all of the advanced searching, getting specific with words isn’t a hard thing to do.
very helpful ! good job 🙂