GUIDE TO SEARCHING FACTIVA

GUIDE TO SEARCHING FACTIVA

Searching: Factiva offers two ways to search: enter keywords in the “Free Text” search box or use Factiva’s “Intelligent Indexing” search box. You will get more accurate and focused search results by using both in your search.

Factiva’s Intelligent Indexing helps you find and select sources, companies, subjects, industries, regions, or language.  Highlight the indexing term and “click” to add it to your search. You can then combine the selected indexing terms with any key words you enter in the “Free Text” search box.

Subject: Use SUBJECT to identify business news subjects and add them to your search. For example, to identify key articles that feature industry overviews or trends, use the subject:  Editor’s Choice: Industry Trends/Analyses. Some other frequently used subjects are:

  1. Acquisitions/Mergers/Takeovers                         
  2. Earnings Projections
  3. Funding/Capital
  4. Initial Public Offerings
  5. Management Issues
  6. Market Share
  7. Plans/Strategy

Company: Use COMPANY  to focus your search on articles that cover rather than just mention the company. Factiva indexes companies from around the world and even provides codes for major private companies and some well-known subsidiaries.

Alternatively, if you know the company’s ticker, you can use the free text search box and type CO=ticker.   When searching for subsidiaries or product names, enter CO=parent ticker and subsidiary name.

 Source: Use SOURCE  to choose an individual title for your search like the Wall Street Journal. You can also choose sources that cover a country or region, an industry, or a type of publication.  Choose individual titles or all titles in a group, for example, all news wires, all transcripts, all titles covering chemicals, or all titles for New Jersey or China or emerging market countries.

Free Text: Use the standard connectors: AND, OR, NOT when building search statements in the “Free Text” box. If you are searching words with multiple endings, use the asterisk *.

To help narrow a search that retrieves too many articles, use one of these options:s

atleast5

Words mentioned more than once
atleast3 Microsoft

wc>500

Word count greater than

hlp=

Words in the headline or lead paragraph
hlp= Microsoft

same

Words appear in the same paragraph
Gates same Microsoft

s/F100/

Words appear in the first (n) words of the text
Microsoft/F100/