Factiva
The Factiva database, a product of Dow Jones and Reuters, includes the full-text of the Wall Street Journal, but that is only one of 1500 global and local newspapers, 3200 magazines, 500 newswires, 160 media programs, and thousands of Web sites included in Factiva. The database provides company background information from Reuters for more than 42,500 companies.
Locating Current Wall Street Journal Articles
- Look on the right side of the “News Pages” screen (Factiva’s main default page) for current Wall Street Journal articles.
- If needed, Select previous dates (the last two weeks) from the drop down menu under “The Wall Street Journal.”
Locating Older Wall Street Journal Articles (back to 1984)
- Click on “Search,” which is located in the top navigational bar, then
- Click on the word “Source,” which is located toward the middle of the screen then
- Type “Wall Street Journal” in the text box that is located to the right of “Find a source,” then
- Press Enter or click on the arrow, then
- Scroll down to The Wall Street Journal or appropriate publication title and click on the title once. Doing so moves the selected title to the “Source” field, which is located above “Find a Source.” Next
- Enter your search terms in the top “free text” search box, then
- Select the appropriate date from the drop down menu (the default is the “last 3 months”), but content is available to 1984, then
- Click “Run Search.
The database is fully searchable by source, company name, industry, region of the world, and time period, using nine different language interfaces, and content is available in more than 20 different languages.
An excellent (and brief) online tutorial is available.
