WRDS
How can one access the WRDS databases?
- New users must register at WRDS. You will first be asked for your Bowdoin credentials. See below for complete information regarding WRDS eligibility. WRDS directs requests for new accounts to Erin Valentino (evalenti@bowdoin.edu), whom you may also contact with questions or problems.
- Already registered? Sign in at WRDS.
Who is eligible to access the WRDS databases?
- The WRDS databases are available only those who register. Registrants must be eighteen (18) years of age or older.
- Individual WRDS accounts are offered to standing faculty, research staff, and currently-enrolled undergraduate students at Bowdoin. Please contact Erin Valentino (evalenti@bowdoin.edu)
- for more information.
- Please note: WRDS prohibits those with Undergraduate/Masters account types to access WRDS during the extended break between semesters.
How may WRDS data be used?
- The WRDS services are for academic and non-commercial research purposes only. Users may not use data downloaded from the WRDS database for any non-academic or commercial endeavor.
- Users may not share data with others who are not Bowdoin faculty, students, or staff.
- User agrees to place the following acknowledgement in all publications or other communications prepared using the WRDS services: 'Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) was used in preparing IDENTIFY RESEARCH PIECE. This service and the data available thereon constitute valuable intellectual property and trade secrets of WRDS and/or its third-party suppliers.'
- The user agrees to place the following acknowledgement on research results using CRSP data: "Calculated (or Derived) based on data from DATABASE_NAME ©YYYY Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP®), The University of Chicago Booth School of Business." (DATABASE_NAME should be replaced with the database name and YYYY with the year of publication of the database.)
Terms of use
Please read the WRDS Terms of Use carefully.
WRDS databases available at Bowdoin College
- List of all available WRDS products and vendors, including those to which Bowdoin College is subscribed.
- Data available at no additional cost to Bowdoin College.