Thursday, February 01, 2007

Millions of News Photographs in Factiva

Did you know ...?

....that the Factiva database , best known for access to the Wall Street Journal and thousands of other newspapers and magazine articles from around the world, also includes an ever-expanding archive of more than two million news photos from Reuters and other sources as far back as the 1980s?

Here's how to search and find news photos in Factiva:
  1. From the main Factiva page, click on the Search tab at the upper left.
  2. Click on the Source button (in gray, next to the plus sign, in the center of the screen).
  3. From the Source Category drop-down menu, select Pictures.
  4. Click on Reuters Pictures. (Other sources are Fashion Wire Daily and McClatchy Tribune Photo Service)
  5. Enter search terms and hit the Run Search button.

New pictures are added to Factiva every day. Note that the default search covers only the last three months, but there are many other date options from which you can choose.

1 comment:

Ken Liss said...

Interesting. I'm curious to find out how much of the content you're able to get. Sounds like it's limited, but hard to tell how limited.