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Factiva's business information includes Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, plus more than 8,000 other sources from around the world. These sources provide current news, historical articles, local-language articles, market research and investment analyst reports and stock quotes.

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Searching by basic text inputting

Search field tag suggestions:
The following field tags originated in an earlier version of Factiva but still function well. The codes listed here will not match codes used in the Intelligent Indexing search mechanism. Both methods provide valid results.

fds=company
hl=headline group (section, column and headline)
hlp=headline/lead paragraph group
se=section e.g. se=business
hd=headline
by=author
vol=volume
td=text of document
de=descriptors
sc=source code e.g. sc=glob (Globe & Mail), sc=nytf (New York Times), sc=j (Wall Street Journal), sc=tor (toronto star),
sc=finp (National Post/Financial Post), sc=cnbz (Canadian Business)

Factiva term connectors (operators) and truncation symbols

andonline banking and Spain USE "..." to retrieve a specific phrase using AND "peas and carrots"	ormobile or cellular	notjava not coffee USE "..." to retrieve a pecific phrase "not for profit"	adjnterms appear in order within 1-10 words of one another table adj2 tennis	w/nsame as adjn Nokia w/3 digital	wcword count Article is : wc>100 greater than 100 words in length wc<5000 less than 5000 words in length
nearnterms may appear in either order within 1-500 of one another music near5 Beethoven	/fn/search terms must appear within the first (n) words of the document text global warming/f50/	sameterms appear in the same paragraph tobacco same nicotine	atleastnnumber of times search terms must appear in text n may be 1-50 atleast2 Reuters	Truncation$n- end of word string hospital$1 retrieves hospital and hospitals	Truncation- end of word string laboretrieves labor, labour, laboratory ? - single wildcard character globali?ation labo?r

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Publications on Factiva

Click on the Factiva Source option listed in the left column; type in desired source name (e.g Globe) or make a selection from the drop down menu entitled My Source Lists

Factiva offers search tutorials:

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Time Out/Tracking/Saved Searches/Source Lists/News pages

There is a time-out feature on the Factiva database. After a period of inactivity (approx. 10 - 15 minutes) you will automatically be LOGGED OFF and all search results and markings will be lost.

Tracking is NOT available in the Academic version of Factiva.

It is possible to Save Searches, create Source Lists or modify News Pages. However, these lists are accessible to anyone and can be edited or deleted at will by other individuals. Please do not rely on these tools.

Factiva Intelligent Indexing

Factiva's Intelligent Indexing appears on the initial search screen. To use the indexes, simply chose one of the categories listed across the top and down the left column. (ex. Industry) Then click Industry Lookup which appears in the green bar at the top of the screen. If you aren't sure which index to use, simply click the Look Up option and it will search all the indexes for you. Enter your search term in the text field. To select a search term, click the that appears to the right of the entry. The search term appears in the Free Text search box towards the bottom of the screen. Use the connectors AND, OR, NOT etc between terms When you are done, click the Run Search button.

Intelligent Index

Marking and Exporting

There are two display modes available in Factiva. The first displays all citations on a single screen. To view the full text, click the title and it replaces the citation list on the screen. This is the NO FRAMES mode. Alternatively, to view the list of citations on the left side of the screen, with full text appearing in a column on the right choose FRAMES. The button to toggle between these two displays is located just above the results list in the top right column. (No Frames/Frames)

Marking-
First:
Mark the items you wish to export by clicking the box next to the title.

Proceed to the exporting method of your choice.

Exporting
After all marking preferences have been completed, click on the EYE icon to view the articles. Then click on the "disk" icon to save items or on the print icon to print the items or to e-mail the items.

News Page

News Page allows you to access the key news content areas of Factiva from one screen.

These 5 news sources are the Factiva defaults for UWO

Company searching on Factiva using Company , Charting or Quotes does not provide indepth statistical information but does provide a more than adequate capsule overview of the company. Factiva provides 2-3 years worth of financial statistics from the Company Quick Search screen. Access the Database

Company Search

Company
When searching non-American companies, search by name rather than symbol.