WRDS aka Wharton Research Data Services

WRDS is research software platform that provides the leading business intelligence, data analytics, and research platform to global institutions. 

UVA students, faculty, and staff are eligible for accounts. 

Email lib-ejournals@virginia.edu with account set-up questions. 

Email data@virginia.edu about WRDS content.

No Summer Access for undergraduates and masters students from July 1 - August 1. Our WRDS policy prohibits undergraduate/masters students from accessing WRDS during the extended break between semesters. The accounts are temporarily disabled by the system during this time. Once the new semester begins, students will automatically be granted access to their accounts. It will not be necessary for the WRDS representatives to enable or disable the accounts since the system is designed to do it automatically.

Create your WRDS account

  • To register for an account go to: https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/register/.
  • Use your virginia.edu email address to create a WRDS account. Be sure to select your user type (student, faculty, etc.)
  • UVA Library staff will approve your request.
  • Once approved to access your WRDS account you will need to set up a multifactor authentication using DUO Mobile.
  • Instructions for DUO set up will be given by WRDS, you will need the DUO Mobile app installed on your phone.

Access WRDS modules

WRDS offers a wide variety of modules. Some modules are included in all WRDS subscriptions; other modules require a special license. This is a full list of the modules that we have access to (either included by default or specially licensed). Please note that there are a number of trial or sample datasets available in WRDS that are not included in this list.

  • American Hospital Association (AHA): Annual Survey; Common Data
  • Audit Analytics: Audit and Compliance; Common Tables; Corporate and Legal
  • WRDS Bank Regulatory Database
  • Blockholders Database
  • BoardEx: North America
  • CBOE: Daily Pricing of the VIX (Volatility Index)
  • Capital IQ: Helper, Transcripts
  • Compustat: Bank Daily Updates, S&P Executive Compensation, North America Daily Updates (Current & Historical); Historical Segments Daily Updates; Snapshot
  • Contributed Database: As Filed Financial Statement Data; Bond-Firm Link by Fang; CEO Turnover; Characteristic Returns; Corporate Federal Litigation Data; Corporate Culture Scores; Intangible Value; KPSS Technological Innovation; Measures of Liquidity in TAQ; Shale
  • CRSP: CRSP/Compustat Merged (Annual); CRSP Indexes (Annual); CRSP Stock (Annual); CRSP Index History Intraday (Quarterly); CRSP Mutual Funds (Quarterly)
  • Dow Jones: Dow Jones Averages & Total Return Indexes
  • Direct Marketing Educational Foundation
  • (DOE) SEC Disclosure of Order Execution Statistics
  • Factset: Factset Common Files; Factset Fundamentals non US and CAN region; Factset Fundamentals US and CAN region; Factset Ownership LionShares
  • Fama-French Portfolios and Factors
  • Federal Judicial Center (FJC): Linking; Litigation
  • Federal Reserve Board Rates
  • FTSE Russell Sample
  • MSCI GMI Ratings CEOs; Companies; Directorships; Takeover
  • Project Gutenberg
  • Infogroup - Business Academic
  • IRI Marketing Fact Book
  • Macro Finance Society Comm Trade; Macro Finance Society Compound Product Requiring CRSP and Comp
  • MSRB: Municipal Securities Transactions
  • OTC Markets End-of-Day Pricing
  • Philadelphia Stock Exchange Currency Options and Implied Volatility
  • Publicly Available Data
  • Penn World Tables Database
  • ISS (formerly RiskMetrics): Directors Data; Corporate Takeover Defense and Governance; Shareholder Proposals (Legacy); Voting Results (Legacy)
  • Research Quotient
  • NYSE Trades & Quotes: 2001 to 2014;  Exists for FK contraint; Trades and Quotes - for website use; Millisecond Trades & Quotes 2023 to 2024; TAQ Daily internal product code
  • Total q by Luke Taylor
  • Thomson Reuters Institutional Managers (13f) Holdings; Archived snapshot of uncorrected, corrupted data in TR 13F Holdings; Holdings; Common; Thomson Reuters IBES Historical Estimates (Global); Thomson Reuters IBES Guidance;
  • FINRA TRACE: Enhanced; Corporate Bond Trades
  • MCP Interface: Enables access to WRDS via the MCP interface; Grants access to WRDS reference tools via MCP
  • SEC full text search in PostgreSQL
  • WRDS: WRDS Research Applications; WRDS Backtest Basic; WRDS Backtest Plus; WRDS Beta Suite; WRDS Efficient Frontier; WRDS EU Short Sales; Event Study Intraday; Event Study Long Run; Event Study US; WRDS Financial Ratios (base); WRDS Financial Ratios with CCM; WRDS Financial Ratios with Ibes; WRDS Financial Ratios with Ibes and CCM; Linking Suite: Compustat - European Short Data; Linking Suite: Bond - CRSP; Linking Suite: Boardex - Compustat - CRSP; Linking Suite: Factset - CRSP; Linking Suite: Ibes - CRSP; Linking Suite: TAQ Monthly - CRSP; Linking Suite: TAQ Daily - CRSP; Linking Suite: Supply Chain; WRDS Patent Database; Common product for People Linking; Exec Boardex; WRDS Company Subsidiaries; WRDS SEC Platform; WRDS SEC Linking and helper tables; MIDAS; WRDS SEC Sentiment Analysis

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