How to use Factiva

Perhaps you want to limit your search to just The New York Times?

You recall seeing an article on food/water insecurity, or want to know what the New York Times has published on the subject.

• Type hl=(food or water) w/3 insecur* , and change the Source code to The New York Times. Here I also widened the search to include "in the last 5 years" and "All Regions"

  • The hl= command tells the search engine to search in the headline field only.

  • The parentheses are for nested searching – allowing you to search for EITHER food OR water. Increasing the number of keyword synonyms enables you to broaden the search and capture the greatest number of relevant articles.

  • The w/3 command searches these two concepts within 3 words of each other 

  • By putting a * after insecur*, it tells the search engine to search for alternate versions such as suffixes, singular, plural, etc. For example, insecure or insecurity.

• You can do this with other sources too, for example, searching just the Wall Street Journal or Washington Post, or the category Major News Sources, just change the Source code to highlight the source you want to search.

Maybe you are looking for a specific article that ran in The New York Times, e.g.: "When Does Food Insecurity Morph Into Official Famine?"

• You can use the hl= feature in the free text search box combined with the source code for the New York Times and the date field:
•  hl=When Does Food Insecurity Morph Into Official Famine; source code=New York Times - all sources; date = last five years
  • If you are looking for an older article, you'll need to change the date range to capture the publishing date of the article you are seeking by either selecting "all dates" or a specific date range.