Factiva – by Dow Jones

Use this database for:

Full text access to significant news from almost 8,000 international sources and 9,000 key websites

Coverage includes articles from newspapers, news wires, press releases, company announcements and journals.

Use of specialist search tools enabling you to search by specific industry and regional areas.

Make sure you are on the “View Online” tab and follow the Resource available at: link out to the Factiva Database.

Getting Started with Factiva

Follow the login prompts; use your

Pheme + password

to authenticate.

Factiva search screen

You’ve arrived, click on the All Industries arrow to see the options available to you.

Example Industry Searches

General Industry Categories Specific industries within

Is your industry focus area represented, select it as a search subset?

Other Search optionsSubject Search

Categories

Some of the subcategories within may be very specific to your research such as:

• Corporate social responsibility• Share price movement/disruptions• Regulatory breach

Look for these and others within these broad categories.

Factiva Expert Search

Expert search focuses on specific areas critical to companies, look for subcategories for:

• Investor sentiment• Environment and Safety• Climate change

Add these to your search selection to focus on these issues in your news article results.

Building Your Search

Start with a broad search

For example• Any field with the word

environment, environmental Using the “*” to find derivatives.

Any industry type categorized as • Energy –

• Crude oil/natural gas

This search gives 774, 845 results … so you may want to make it more specific...

Building Your Search

This search is finding a range of articles that have been categorised by both the “selected subject terms” AND “selected industry type”

Plus it is free text searching on all derivatives of Environment OR Sustainable

Narrow your resultsBy adding more search terms

This search gives 248,505 results … so you may need to refine them more...

Refining Your Search ResultsThere are many ways to refine your results: by format or date, or Company

Or by specific source, further subjects, industry areas or by region…..

Refining Your Search ResultsSelecting any of these limits will filter your results making them more manageable to view