| What is Factiva? | Overview of Searching | Additional Features |
| Blocked Sources | Printing, Emailingand Saving | TIPS |
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Factiva, a joint venture between Dow Jones and Reuters, is the successor to Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing.
Factiva provides access to nearly 8,000 publications in 22 languages (newswires, newspapers, magazines, trade journals and media transcripts), to over 8,500 business and news Web sites, to thousands of pictures from Reuters and Knight Ridder and to over 20,000 company reports.
Wall Street Journal (as well as the Asian Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal Americas-Spanish, Wall Street Journal Americas-Portuguese and Wall Street Journal Europe), Washington Post, New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and The Times (London).
Barron's, BusinessWeek, The Economist, Forbes, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, and US News & World Report.
Searching can be done by entering words in the free-text box, by selecting the Factiva Intelligent Indexing terms or by combining free-text words and indexing terms. Be sure and use the expand button 
to see option choices.
mean?The is an expand button. Click on it and you can expand the heading and see more information or more options.
Use the expand button next to Source on theleft side of the search screen. You can search for a specific source title or browse the source lists. Once you find a specific title or grouping of titles click on thetitle(s) and it will be added to your search box.
Yes. Use the in front of Language on the left side of the search screen and choose an option.
Use the * symbol to truncate. For example, labo* will retrieve labor, labour, laboratory... Use it when you have a word stem and you want to include plural and singular forms of the wordas well as, the ing form of the word.
Use the ? symbol as a wildcard to get both spellings of globali?ation. This will retrieve globalization as well as, globalisation.
Yes. The following is alist of fields you might want to use. To use these fields in asearch statement type by=smith or pg=3 or se=sports or wc>1000. Please note: you need to set the drop down menu next to Search for free-text terms in:full article for the field search to work.
| FIELD LABEL | (Field Name) | What It Contains |
| AN | (Accession Number) | Unique Factiva identification number assigned to each document |
| HL | (Headline Group) | Includes Section, Column and Headline |
| HLP | (Headline/Lead) | Includes Section, Column, Headline, Paragraph Group Correction and Lead Paragraph Fields |
| SE | (Section) | Section Name (Example: Business or Sports) |
| CLM | (Column) | Column Name (Example: Work and Family) |
| HD | (Headline) | Headline |
| CX | (Correction) | Correction Field |
| LP | (Lead Paragraph) | First two paragraphs of an article |
| BY | (Author) | Author, or byline, of an article |
| WC | (Word Count) | Number of words in document |
| CR | (Credit Information) | Credit Information (Example: Associated Press) |
| SN | (Source Name) | Source Name |
| SC | (Source Code) | Source Code |
| NGC | (Source Group Name) | Publication Group Name (Example: ABIX) |
| GC | (Source Group Code) | Publication Group Code (Example: ABXSMH) |
| ED | (Edition) | Edition of publication (Example: Final) |
| PG | (Page) | Page on which article appeared (Note: Page-One Story is a Factiva Intelligent Indexing™ term) |
| VOL | (Volume) | The volume and/or number of the publication |
| LA | (Language) | Language in which the document is written |
| TD | (Text) | Text following the lead paragraphs |
| CT | (Contact) | Contact name to obtain additional information |
| RF | (Reference) | Notes associated with a document |
| ART | (Captions, Descriptions) | Contains the content of captions or of Graphics any descriptions of graphical elements |
| CO | (Dow Jones Ticker Symbol) | Dow Jones Ticker Symbol |
| FDS | (Factiva Data Symbol) | Factiva Intelligent Indexing Company Code for Quoted and Unquoted Companies |
| RIC | (Reuters Instrument Code) | Reuters Instrument Code |
| IN | (Industry Code) | Factiva Intelligent Indexing Industry Code |
| NS | (Subject Code) | Factiva Intelligent Indexing Subject Code |
| RE | (Region Code) | Factiva Intelligent Indexing Region Code |
| DE | (Descriptors) | Contains all available descriptors applied to a document including Factiva Intelligent Indexing |
| PUB | (Publisher Name) | Publisher of information |
Use the following in your search statement: AND, OR, NOT.
No. Enclose the following words in quotes so they can be searched as a phrase unless they are used as Boolean operators: AND, OR, NOT, SAME, NEAR, DATE. To search the phrase not for profit type it like this: "not for profit"
Use the drop down menu next to View As on the top right side of theresults list screen.
You can click on this phrase in the headline and full article views to find similar documents.
It is now called the News Pages. It works the same. Ithas the headlines for the top five or six newspapers and the top five or six journals. You can search the sources as well as glance at the headlines and read the articles in each section of the newspaper or journal. It keeps a running elevenbusiness day archive.
Click on Companies/Markets on the top of the search screen. You can search by company name or ticker symbol.
Yes for US publicly traded companies. Once you get into a company's report look at the Additional Links heading on the lower left side of the screen and click on the heading SEC Filings.
Factiva Intelligent Indexing searching: an article is linked to an indexing term only if the term is mentioned in the article in "a meaningful way."
| Step | Activity |
| Step 1 | Select Factiva Intelligent Indexing above the free text box.A Search Builder Window will appear. |
| Step 2 | Select what type of term you want: Company, Industry, Regional or Subject. |
| Step 3 | Type in your term and click on Look Up |
| Step 4 | Scroll through the listing looking for your industry, region or subject. |
| Step 5 | Highlight the desired term. |
| Step 6 | Click the And, Or, Not buttons depending on what action you want. |
| Step 7 | Click Done. |
| You are now back at the Free Text box and you can add free text terms if desired. |
Once you have entered your search and adjusted your related options, press Run Search to execute your search.
| Feature | Description |
| Track | Click onthe Trackheading at the top of the search screen to look at pre-existing folders on California and CSUrelated topics. |
| Company Screening | Retrieve a list of companies based on up to 26 financial criteria that you specify. Very basic company information. |
| Quotes | From 50 exchanges in 43 companies includes market indexes, funds, corporate bonds, and currency. |
| Company Quick Search | Detailed information on companies with financial performance information, stock quotes, pictures and news. |
At the bottom of each record retrieved in Factiva you will find the following icons which allow you to save, email or print the article on the screen. "RTF" saves the file in rich text format. The envelope icon sends the page via email. The printer icon formats the page for printing. The diskette icon formats the page for downloading. (The briefcase icon saves the page for later retrieval. Since this subscription is a shared subscription,do notuse the briefcase option.)
Company reports have only the RTF, print and save icons/functions.
If there is no activity for a period of time, Factiva will time you out and return you to the Factiva log in screen. Return to Research Databases listing at Databases by Topic (in the library just click on the browsersHome button)and click on Factiva again.
When youhaveyour results list use the More Like Thisoptionto find additional articles on the same topic.
Intelligent Indexing terms appear at the end of full text articles in a yellow box and may be clicked to retrieve additional articles on that term.
Exit by clicking on logout in the upper right hand corner of the Factiva screen.
Certain sources, including the Harvard Business Review and the Los Angeles Times, are blocked from academic library accounts at the insistence of their publishers. This is a list of all titles blocked from our Factiva account as of June 2004.
Content maintained by Susan Jackson, Business Librarian
