Workshop- Dow Jones Factiva

Come along to this workshop to find out more about Factiva..

 Dow Jones Factiva allows you to search for current business information and news in more than 26,000 sources from 159 countries, in 23 languages. 

Detailed information on the content Factiva provides is available at http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/?s=factiva

The course will be delivered by Sophie Panagi from Proquest.  If you would like to attend, please email: c.m.ure@hw.ac.uk 

Course details:
Thursday 10 December
Dow Jones Factiva
Anderson Room, Riccarton Library (top floor)
12.15-13.45

*Tea and coffee provided, please feel free to bring your lunch.  To register email: c.m.ure@hw.ac.uk *

This course covers content, functions, and features of, as well as tips for using, Dow Jones Factiva.

• Using the Simple Search
• Viewing search results and limiting with the Discovery Pane
• Selecting articles and exporting, downloading and printing them
• Searching with Free Text and Factiva Intelligent Indexing
• Searching for specific journals and dates
• Alerts and News Pages
• Companies/Markets (Quotes, Charting and Company Snapshots)
• Help and Support
• Questions?

Catherine Ure
Subject Librarian

Online access to 2,300+ newspapers and 4,200 journals and magazines

The Library has recently subscribed to a service called Factiva which provides access to 10,000+ sources from 152 countries in 22 languages.  Access  is available from the A-Z list of databases.  The table below gives an overview of the content.

Content type	Description
2,300+ newspapers	Same-day and archival coverage of world newspapers including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, South China Post, Le Monde, Les Echos, The Guardian and Handelsblatt.  Factiva also includes local newspapers from every corner of the globe.
4,200+ journals and magazines	Access to leading business and industry publications, including the Economist, Franz&Wirtschaft, Satellite News, Computerworld and Journal of Organizational Analysis.
640+ newswires, including 400 continuously updating newswires	Breaking news from Dow Jones, Reuters and The Associated Press, as well as PR Newswire, M2 Presswire and the other regionally focused and industry newswires.
3,500+ websites	The world’s top news and business websites.
32,000 company profiles	Public company profiles from around the world.
Celex database	Includes directives, treaties, legislation, case law, and documents from the European Union.

Catherine Ure
Subject librarian

Newspapers

I read an interesting article the other day in the Business & Media section of The Observer, entitled Will Philadelphia be the place where the American newspaper dies?  Several cities in the US are in danger of losing their newspapers, and the article suggests that the same may well happen in the UK – “This is the dying world of newspapers…”

Readers have moved to the Internet for news, and so the circulation of many print papers has declined, and profits have reduced or disappeared.  Most newspapers have an online equivalent, but can online newspapers make a profit in the long-run? No-one knows.

There’s a number of interesting websites that can help you keep up-to-date with the news and newspapers.  Here are just a few:

Chipwrapper is a tool for easy searching of UK newspapers.  
NewsLink provides links to numerous newspapers, as does onlinenewspapers.com. 
Newsroom, available to members of Heriot-Watt University, covers the leading newspapers, as well as business magazines and newswires from all regions of the world. 
And Newser aggregates headlines from numerous titles.

The Internet may have taken away many reasons for newspapers to exist, but there’s nothing actually like spending a half-hour, or so, flicking through a real, print, newspaper.  In Riccarton Library, a number of daily newspapers are available on Level 2, near the Library Cafe.  These include:

Daily Telegraph

Financial Times

Guardian

Herald

Observer – term-time only

Scotland on Sunday – term-time only

Scotsman

Times

The Library at Galashiels buys several British newspapers and magazines:

• Border Telegraph (local paper for Galashiels area)
• Financial Times
• Guardian
• Scotsman
• Southern Reporter (local paper for Scottish Borders)  

More information is available about newspapers in the Library.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian