DOW JONES FACTIVA is a current international news database produced by Dow Jones, one of the leading global providers of economic and financial information.
This database combines over 30,000 sources to give students, faculty, and librarians access to premium content from 200 countries, in 32 languages. Users have access to a wide range of information from newspapers, newswires, industry publications, websites, company reports, and more. The broad range of content provides both local insight and global perspective on business issues and current events – especially with regard to research requiring current information on companies, industries, and financial markets.
For more information about the Dow Jones Factiva, navigate to the Content Page.
Dow Jones have created a new Factiva experience for the academic users. This started on 11th July 2024 and you might have noticed the banner in your Factiva account, if you have logged in after 11th July.
December 2024 update: Single-article print and download options are now available in the new Factiva interface.
November 2024 update: New Smart Summary Feature added to the new Factiva interface. Factiva has launched genAI-powered Smart Summaries in its new interface, enhancing search and discovery for users. With this new tool, you can enter a natural language query and receive concise, high-quality summaries of relevant articles from Factiva's extensive content library. We covered this feature during our webinar on 13th November, which can be found in the webinar recording section of this LibGuide.
Visit this Support article for more detail about the New Factiva Experience. Please note that you will need to be logged into your Factiva account, in order to open the Support article.
Please find below, the Support articles in PDF format.
For End-users:
For Administrators:
Watch this short video to learn how you can combine search terms to retrieve a targeted set of articles within Factiva - Duration: 2 Minutes
Conduct stronger, more targeted Factiva searches using the content classification system, Dow Jones Intelligent Identifiers (DJID). Factiva ingests hundreds of thousands of articles daily. Each article is tagged with DJID codes specifying industries, regions, subjects, companies, and organizations. Searching with the roughly 350,000 DJID codes—versus solely conducting a keyword search—helps retrieve more precise results. Duration: 2 Minutes
Gain deeper insights into organizations across the public and private sectors with Factiva Company Snapshots. A Company Snapshot provides an overview of an organization’s most pertinent details. This information includes, but is not limited to, location and size, the executive team, financials, and peer comparison. Duration: 2 Minutes