Factiva search tips

Remember that if you enter just two words in Factiva, it will search for those words as a phrase. [click on the thumbnail image to view the full-sized version]




The above search will find articles which contain the phrase online brokerage. This is different from search engines like Google.





This Google search implies an AND between the two words, so that it will find web sites which contain both the words "online" and "brokerage" somewhere on the same page, no matter how remote from each other.

If you want to do an AND search on Factiva, you need to specify this with the word "and"

Here are some other search tips from Factiva:

To find articles containing China and "cultural differences":
enter china and cultural differences

To find articles containing CommSec or e*trade:
enter commsec or e trade

To find articles containing outsourcing but not offshore:
enter outsourcing not offshore

To find articles about outsourcing in the utility or energy sectors:
enter outsourcing and (utility or energy)

To find articles containing at least 3 mentions of CommSec:
enter atleast3 CommSec
The number after atleast can be anything between 1 and 50.

To find articles containing building materials in the same paragraph as market size:
enter building materials same market size
"Same" can be thought of as a more precise version of "and"

To find articles containing variants of outsourcing such as outsource, outsourced, outsourcer: enter outsourc*
Don't use this operator too soon, cat* or tel* would retrieve a lot of false hits.

To find articles woman or women:
enter wom?n
The wildcard operator can only be used after three or more characters.