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Keep track of your brand's reputation and stay ahead of potential issues by leveraging a database of content from 33,000 global sources, 200 countries and 32 languages, comprehensive monitoring tools and curation solutions.
Factiva is a business information and research tool that provides worldwide full text coverage of newspapers, trade publications, newswires, media transcripts, analyst reports, regional profiles, market data and more.
Searching in Factiva. When you first connect to Factiva, you are directed to the Free Text Search page. It allows you to freely enter keywords, article titles, authors, or other search terms that might appear anywhere in the text. This guide focuses on using the Free Text Search.
- Enter search terms
- Choose the relevant timeframe
- Select categories
- Searching within a publication
- Viewing search results
- Browse a publication
- Browse a topic or topics
Enter words or phrases in the Free Text box. Click on Examples under the Free Text heading for more help on how to do this. NOTE: If you do not separate words with AND, OR or NOT, Factiva will automatically search for your words as a phrase - "journalists ethics" instead of journalists AND ethics. Factiva also allows the use of search strategies ...
You can limit your search to a particular timeframe using the dropdown menu next to Date. The default is the last three months.
It is advisable to limit your search to a category. Factiva has a number of categories available Make selections from as many categories as you need to specify your search, e.g. to find news from a region, select from the Source category. To find news about a region, select from the Region category. NOTE: If you do not select a category within ...
Sometimes you may want to search for information within a specific publication or newspaper. Firstly enter words or phrases in the Free Text box. Click on Examples under the Free Text heading for more help on how to do this. Then you will need to select the publication. Factiva refers to publications as sources. The Source category is set open ...
This is how search results will display: At the top of the results list are tabs for different types of results – Publications, Web News, Pictures and Multimedia. The number of results for Publications is indicated at the top of the list of results and the numbers of results for other formats are indicated in [brackets]. If no numbers are given th...
You may want to browse a publication with no particular topic in mind, to see the latest articles in that publication. Select the source you wish to browse (see - Searching within a publication –add link), and then click on the symbol beside it to add Factiva's publication code to the Free Text box: You should also select your preferred timefra...
To browse the latest news on a topic, click on the News Pages tab on the top of the Factiva search screen. You can browse for recent news items by topic or country by using the drop-down menu. The default page is Australia.
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Aggregated news from national and local newspapers, magazines, trade publications, and transcripts. Factiva includes access to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Barron's. Content is available in 22 languages.
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Aug 26, 2008 · This tutorial demonstrates how to find company information in the Factiva database. This tutorial was created by Sonya Betz of the University of Alberta on Oct...
