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Factiva Tips
Here are some tips on how to focus your search
- Search for a specific article and limit by date
- Narrow or broaden your search
- Restrict your search to a specific publication, for example, the Wall Street Journal
- Search for articles in foreign language publications
Search for a specific article and limit by date
Narrow or broaden your search
Narrow a search by limiting where or how often a search term should appear:
- headline (hd)
- headline and lead paragraph (hlp)
- atleast2
Broaden a search by using a wildcard (*) to get all variants of a search term.
Restrict a search to a specific publication, for example, the Wall Street Journal.
Search for articles in foreign language publications.
