Citing Articles

MLA Style Examples: Latour, Almar. "Pen and Paper Work E-Magic." Wall Street Journal Europe 8 June 2000: 29.  Dow Jones & Reuters.  Factiva.  Babson College Horn Lib., Babson Park, MA. 8 July 2003 <http://global.factiva.com>. For additional MLA examples, see http://www.mla.org/.

Basic Steps

Select the Search tab on the top of the screen to search over 8,000 publications individually, in groups or the entire database at once. There are several ways of searching for articles; Search by Company, Industry, Region, or Subject. Enter your search terms in the box, if you need suggestions for search strategies refer to the advanced search tips or use the Examples hyperlink above the search box. At the bottom of the screen you can click on the Select sources button to select sources by title, industry, region, type, or language.  NOTE: check the All Sources box if you would like to search everything at once! Click on Run Search to execute your search. Click Examples for search options and/or to narrow results.  To cut down results, change the search to Look for words in Headline & Lead Paragraph, Lead Paragraph or Headline choices.  Change Date options if necessary, exclude Republished News (duplicate articles) and click Run Search. Select from the resulting list.  Place a check in the boxes from the Headline list of results to print or save groups of articles. In addition, there are several other features in Factiva: Company Screening, Quotes and a Company Quick Search. These services allow you easy access to screening for companies by industry, size and location, searching for stock quotes and company searching for basic information.

Advanced Search Tips

Search Syntax

Search Type	Format	Example
Boolean Searching	AND OR NOT	entrepreneur* and team* entrepren* or intrapren*
Truncation (up to 9 characters)	$n	entrepreneur$5
Truncation (unlimited)	* (asterisk)	telecom*
Proximity - Same order - up to 10 words	w/X	laura w/2 bush
Any order within X words	nearX	market near4 share*
At least	atleastX	atleast5 Starbucks

See Factiva's Examples for more options.

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Updated November 1, 2005 By Kate Buckley