Factiva - the basics

Type in your search term(s)  in the FREE TEXT SEARCH box. The search box does have smart search for spelling, search term and search operators.

Search examples:

tariffs  and economy               Devon Energy and china                environment and green fuels

Under the  FREE TEXT SEARCH box are several different ways you can limit your search

• DATE - the default is the last year, change the date range is a good way to limit the search 
• SOURCE – limit your search to  U.S. or other county's newspapers or sources, or limit to an individual source - Wall Street Journal.
• SUBJECT – limit search to a subject based on the sections of a newspaper, Financial news or Economic news
• INDUSTRY – limit search to an industry -  Energy or Food/Beverage/Tobacco
• REGION – limit search to just U.S. or Developing Economies or Europe
•  LANGUAGE – English is the default, can change to French, Russian, Chinese….

The results page lets you know how many hits were found total number, news pages, blogs, picture and multimedia.  Results are sorted by most recent first.  The left tool bar ranks the number of companies, executives and industries mentioned.  The left tool bar also lists key words, regions, subjects, sources and dates. 

The main section of the page list results, most recent first – giving the Headline and first sentence of the article.