FACTIVA QUICK GUIDE
User Guide Searching Factiva with Dow Jones Intelligent Indexing Terms 1. On the Search Builder or Search Builder form screen, select from one or more of these indexing categories: a. Source b. Company
c. Subject d. Industry
e. Region
How to Use Connectors and Operators Connector/ Operator
Use this word to identify items that contain…
And
All the words or phrases you enter. Technology spending and Canada
Or
One or more of the words you enter. Merger or acquisition
Not
Exclude items that contain these words. Software not spreadsheets
Same
Two words in the same paragraph. Video phone same telecommunications
Atleastn
Words mentioned more than once. Atleast5 Microsoft Note: Not available for Alerts.
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Group words together. Press releases and (university or courses)
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Words that are spelled differently by one letter. Organi?ation
*(asterisk)
Words with multiple endings of any length. Telecom* Note: You must enter at least three characters before using *, and * must be entered at the end of a word only.
$n
Words with multiple endings, limited to a certain number of characters. earn$4 Note: You must enter at least three characters before using $, and $ must be entered at the end of a word only. If no number is used, n=5.
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Words adjacent to each other in the order specified, within a certain number. Rugby adj5 World Cup
w/n
Words adjacent to each other in the order specified, within a certain number. Wireless w/3 mobile
/Fn/
Words in the first few words of an article. Toyota/F50/ Note: Not available for Alerts.
Nearn
Words near another word in any order, within a certain number. Carrefour near5 retail sales
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Or enter a keyword or company name in the Lookup search box.
2. Scroll through the list, then click the term you want applied to your search. Click the + for more subcategories. 3. If selecting multiple terms, click on the connector that appears between the terms. 4. When using the Search Builder form, be sure to add keywords in the Search fields in addition to the indexing terms you choose. 5. When you have finished adding terms to your search, click RUN SEARCH.
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Factiva.com — Discovery Pane
Working with Results Choosing Content Type
New! Discovery Pane helps you narrow your search
Results can include publications, web news, pictures, and multimedia. To access these different types of results, click on the corresponding tab.
After you run a search, the Discovery Pane will be available to the left of your results, populated with filters, that you can use to focus your search results even further. To remove a filter, click on the filter name, which will appear above the results. Any of the filters below can be combined for added depth and insight into your results: • Date – Mouse over a section of the bar chart and a pop-up will appear with the start date and end date, and the number of articles from that week or month.
Reading Articles Without Leaving the Headline Results Screen Click the FRAMES link (located above your search results) in the upper right corner. Click on the headline to view the full text of the article in the right-hand frame. To return to the full screen view, click the NO FRAMES link above your search results in the upper right corner.
• News Clusters – Identify top trends, relationships, and patterns within your search results. • Companies – Displays the ten most common companies found in the Dow Jones Intelligent Indexing™ Company category associated with your results. NOTE: Frames are not available with the ALL tab.
• Sources – Click on the name of a publication to view articles from that specific source.
Processing Results — Icons
• Subjects – Shows the number of articles within your results associated with Dow Jones Intelligent Indexing subjects.
SELECT ALL places checkmarks next to all articles on the screen. You can also check individual articles. VIEW SELECTED will display the full text of any selected articles. EMAIL RESULTS lets you email articles in a variety of formats. FORMAT FOR PRINTING opens a new browser window with selected articles formatted for printing.
FORMAT FOR SAVING opens a new browser window with selected articles in text-only format. VIEW AS RTF automatically formats selected articles in Rich Text Format and launches your word processor. VIEW AS PDF automatically formats selected articles in PDF. Save selected articles in XML.
• Industries – Click on an industry name to narrow your results by a specific industry. • Keywords – Extract the most frequently used terms and phrases related to your search using text-mining technologies that examine the first 100 articles within your results. • Executives – Lists the most-mentioned corporate executives from your search results.
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Use Search to explore the full 30+ year Factiva archive and 20,000+ sources. With Search you have full control to build precise searches using a combination of keywords and Factiva Intelligent Indexing™. Selecting a Single Source
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1. Select the Sources category. 2. Enter the source name in the text box . and click 3. Click the name of the source.
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Searching by Headline 4. In the Free Text box, enter the terms that should appear in the headline. next to More Options . 5. Click 6. Select Headline from the Search for Free Text terms in drop-down menu. 7. Add any additional search criteria and click Run Search.
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r s Search with Factiva Intelligent Indexing™ terms 1. Click next to Look up. 2. Enter your terms in the text box (e.g.marketing) . and click 3. Click the name of the Factiva Intelligent Indexing term(s) you would like to add to your search. 4. Multiple search terms are automatically connected with OR. Click on OR to change it to AND. Double click on a term to exclude it. 5. Click Run Search.
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Search Operators
Processing Options
Use one or more to make your search statements targeted and relevant. connector/operator Use it to identify items that contain…
Headline Display Option Select All places checkmarks next to all articles on the screen. You can also check individual articles. View Selected will display the full text articles.
All the words or phrases you enter. technology spending and Canada
Headlines with this icon will display articles that include images or graphics.
or
One or more of the words you enter. merger or acquisition
Article and Headline Display Options E-mail Results will let you e-mail articles in a variety of formats (e.g. HTML or Text, Full Article or headline with link to full article).
not
Exclude items that contain these words. software not spreadsheets
Format for Printing will open a new browser window with selected articles specially formatted for printing.
same
Two words in the same paragraph. vodafone same telecommunications
atleastn
Words mentioned more than once. atleast5 Microsoft
and
Note: not available for Alerts
( ) (Parentheses)
Group words together. press releases and (university or instruction or courses)
* (asterisk)
Words with multiple endings of any length. telecom* Note: You must enter at least three characters before using *, and * must be entered at the end of a word only.
w/n
near/n
TIP:
Words adjacent to each other in the order specified, within a certain number. wireless w/3 mobile Words near another word in any order, within a certain number. Carrefour near5 retail sales The following punctuation marks are optional: hyphens, periods, apostrophes, commas, and the slash (/) character. For example, entering “coca-cola” will retrieve the same results as entering “Coca cola.” Need More Answers?
Log in to Factiva.com and click the
Format for Saving will open a new browser window with selected articles in a text-only format.
Add to Briefcase allows you to save useful articles or headlines for later use, until you’re ready to print, save, or e-mail these items. You can create 25 briefcases and store 100 items in each. Briefcases are retained until 30 days after the most recent update. RTF will allow you to export headlines, articles and articles with a Table of Contents to your word processor.
PDF will allow you to export headlines, articles or headline and articles with a Table of Contents in a presentation ready format.
Use this flexible document format for saving and republishing articles in newsletters, intranets or other communication tools.
Newsletter Builder lets you create and download Newsletters on the fly in many different formats to share throughout the organization. You can create up to 400 Newsletter editions with up to
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