Before franklly was a blog, it was the name of the Library's newsletter. There's a new issue of the newsletter available right now (pdf file). This issue is mainly about doing industry research. Using the Australian wine industry as an example, the newsletter has useful information about using Australian Bureau of Statistics data and subscription library databases (Business Source Premier, Factiva and Global Market Information Database) and other web resources to find industry information. Previous issues of the newsletter are available on the Library's website.
Showing posts with label factiva. Show all posts
Showing posts with label factiva. Show all posts
Friday, June 29, 2007
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
A few things about Factiva
Factiva provides access to unmatched global content that’s not available on the free Web, to research and monitor companies, industries, or any news.
Use this database for the most up-to-date information on company activities, issues and financials. It is also useful for the latest management topics being debated in the media.
Tips: Use the Source menu to select a particular publication or group of publications. Restrict the terms to appear in the Headline and Lead Paragraph.
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
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.
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.
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