How to use Factiva

In September 2024, Factiva switched to a new interface that presents a single search box allowing natural language searching of news articles and company/market information together. The new interface also displays feeds of major headlines from worldwide and regional news sources. You may switch back to the classic interface featuring Search Form and Free Text options using the "Switch Factiva" button in the top right.

New Factiva Interface:

Classic Factiva Interface:

The classic interface is a traditional advanced search, and the news search and companies/markets information are in separate tabs. Factiva intends for the new interface to be easier for beginning users, while the classic interface remains available for advanced searching. Please see ProQuest's Factiva Guide for more information about the new interface, including comparisons to the classic interface and training videos.

All pages in the new Factiva experience have shareable URLs. If you want to share an article found while searching the new interface, simply copy the URL displayed in your browser's address bar:

Please note that there is not an option to download articles from the new interface, nor is there an option to email an article directly. Instead, Factiva recommends copy-pasting the browser URL into an email. If you're on campus, you'll want to add the proxy prefix http://login.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/login?url= in front of the URL so it will work for off-campus users too.

It's possible to copy-paste the HTML of an individual article into a word document and save it, so that is an option while searching the new interface.

You can also share individual documents via the "share" button on the classic Factiva interface.

If you need to downloaded or email several documents at once, Factiva recommends using the PDF download or email button available via the classic Factiva interface. Just select the articles you want to export by checking the box next to the article number, then choose one of the following options:

•    View the selected articles
•    Email 
•    Print
•    Save
•    Save in  RTF format
•    Save in  PDF format

Factiva is an archive of over 32,000 major global newspapers, newswires, industry publications, magazines, reports and other sources. Although its focus is business news, it can be used to locate information on a variety of topics, including politics, current events, trends and government data. 

Rutgers University Libraries has an academic subscription to Factiva, which includes the following features:

• Search: Search the full text of 14,000 leading business newspapers, magazines, trade journals, newsletters, and television and radio transcripts, including: 
  • National, international and regional newspapers - (e.g. The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Times, El Pais, The Financial Times, The Guardian)
  • Magazines, journals and trade publications (e.g., Forbes, Newsweek, The Economist)
  • Newswires (e.g., AFP, Reuters, Dow Jones)
  • TV and radio podcasts (e.g., BBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC)
• News Pages: Browse the headlines, text and sections of major magazines and newspapers worldwide. 
• Companies/Markets: Find company profiles, news articles and press releases, corporate financials, and current and historical equity stock quotes and market indices.​
  • NOTE: A small percentage of sources as well as the Alerts feature are not available to academic libraries.
  • Rutgers is limited to 100 simultaneous users of this database.

• Get stock quotes
• Track political news
• Find company profiles
• Locate country information 
• Curate data for a SWOT analysis 
• Read editorials from major news sources
• Obtain industry-specific data from trade publications 
• Access full text articles from The Wall Street Journal & The New York Times