The University of Lincoln provides access to Factiva Academic, a “business intelligence” database of more than 8,800 international sources including major newspapers, newswires and a wide selection of journals. Factiva is especially useful for finding company/industry information and business news.
For the past eight years, we have used a kind of ‘form capture‘ authentication to log in to the Factiva homepage. This created a ‘faked’ URL for Factiva, hiding the username and password (in effect, it pasted the Factiva login details into an HTML login form on the user’s behalf and hid the authentication from public view). This meant it was impossible to link directly to a specific Factiva journal/newspaper from the e-journals A-to-Z, or from a search in Find it at Lincoln.
Factiva now uses a more standard login tool, which means that links from the A-to-Z/Find it at Lincoln will take you directly to articles within a specific title. (Example: the Lincolnshire Echo). This new method of access uses EZproxy. You can log in to Factiva via the new method using your University of Lincoln accountID and password.
For help with using Factiva, please contact your subject librarian.
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