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Factiva has coverage of the full text of all editions of Dow Jones publications, the Wall Street Journal and Barron's, plus the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and three months of the New York Times. Factiva also includes over 2100 newspapers from all over the world, 3500 business and industry magazines, 500 newswires, 280 television news transcripts, 27,000 company reports and 12,000 editorially selected business websites. Included are publications in 22 languages from 159 countries and 350 geographic regions.

Search tips:

It is possible to change the language of the search interface from English to Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, or Russian. To do this click on the words Language Interface in the gray bar at the top of the search page and select your preferred language. This will not change the original language of the search results, but will allow you to see search commands in a language other than English.

To search for all publications in a particular language:

click on the plus sign by the word source on the search page.
Then use the drop down menu by the words select source list.
Once in the list, select publications by language.
And finally, click on your language of choice from the list. This will restrict your search to only publications in that language.

Factiva uses several different truncation symbols depending on the circumstances. The dollar sign is used at the end of an entry. At least three characters must be entered before the dollar sign. Values for N can be entered from 1 - 9. If no number is included after the dollar sign, then N is assumed to be 5. For example, searching product$
retrieves the following terms:

Note: It will not retrieve the term productiveness because this term is 7 characters beyond the stem. Extend the stem word and search like this to get it: productive$4 to retrieve articles with the term productiveness.

The asterisk is used at the end of a term. A minimum of three characters must be entered before the asterisk. No values should be entered after the asterisk. There is no limit to the number of characters after the stem word that will be searched. For example, searching: cat* will retrieve terms such as the following:

The question mark is used as a single wildcard character. A minimum of three characters must be entered before the question mark. Letters can be entered after the question mark. For example, searching on: globali?ation retrieves the following terms:

The percent sign is used as a wildcard character for phrase searching. It requires that exactly one term must appear between the two search terms. The percent sign can only be used as an "inner" term in phrase searching; it cannot be used as the first or last term of the phrase. For example, searching Dun % Bradstreet
would retrieve articles that contain any of the following:

The % is very useful for searching for articles mentioning web site addresses with a specific domain. Searching www % info will retrieve articles that mention web sites using the .INFO domain name, such as:

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter F and select Factiva.

Quick Link: http://global.factiva.com/sb/default.aspx?NAPC=S&fcpil=en

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