Factiva Adds New Content

According to the latest press release from Proquest, Factiva added more than 500 new publications in 2007. Some examples:

• The Wall Street Journal Online was released as a separate source. Previously, articles from WSJ.com were available as part of source The Wall Street Journal
• Washington Post.com which features unique content that does not appear in the print edition of The Washington Post
• Japan: 18 new sources, including The Japan Securities Journal , The Shinano Mainichi Shimbun and news services from Dow Jones and Kyodo
• Industry publications from Business Monitor International
• Russia: 24 new sources added, and multiple sources reactivated. In Russian, new sources include IPO News and Comments , M&A News and Comments and sources from RBC and English-language content from Interfax , one of Russia's leading news agencies.
• Al Jazeera , a Qatar-based channel of reference for Middle Eastern events and sources from Israel, Jordan and Lebanon

Proquest also announced that in the first half of 2008, the web content of Factiva will increase dramatically from 4,000 sites and blogs to more than 12,000 web sites and 4,000 blogs featuring well-known and respected global news and business sources. Examples of top sites world-wide include CNN, Poynter.org and the BBC.