A global news and business information service, with most material available in full-text. It covers science, health, education, the humanities, and other subjects but has a focus on business, including business news, and company and industry research.
Factiva is produced by Dow Jones, a leading global provider of economic and financial information.
The database has full-text content from newspapers, newswires, business journals, market research reports, analyst reports, and websites.
It includes material from :
* Australian newspapers, including
The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, and
Business Review Weekly
* US newspapers, including
The New York Times, The Washington Post, and
The Wall Street Journal
* Magazines, journals and trade publications, including
Forbes and
Newsweek
* Newswires, including
AFP, Reuters, and
Dow Jones
* company reports
* other content including TV and radio podcasts; and major news and business information websites, blogs and message boards.
Coverage varies but goes back as far as 1980.
There is a useful online
Help Guide available from ProQuest. It includes help pages on Simple Search, Search Builder (Charles Sturt's subscription defaults to Search Builder), Results pages, Companies/Markets, and Sample Searches.
NOTE: Charles Sturt Library has only 3 concurrent-user licences to
Factiva. If you can't get access, try again later.