Collections News

WRDS ( Wharton Research Data Services) is an aggregator platform that hosts Business data collections from a number of different providers. Until recently, there were some LSEG collections still listed in WRDS as belonging to Thomson Reuters, the previous provider.

In addition, there are a couple of LSEG collections subscribed by the Alberta School of Business that are licensed for all UofA students, faculty and staff, but for which we’d never created database assets.

Accordingly, we’ve made changes to some titles on the A-Z list to match what is displayed on the WRDS platform, and also created two new assets:

• Thomson Reuters Insiders Data is now: LSEG Insiders Data 
• Thomson Reuters Institutional 13F Holdings is now: LSEG Institutional (13F) Holdings
• IBES is now: LSEG IBES Academic
• New: LSEG Mergent FISD
• New: LSEG Worldscope
  

All collections on the WRDS platform are accessed through the same link. After logging in with their CCID, users receive an email with a link for a one-day pass to WRDS, enabling them to access all of the collections subscribed by both the Library and the Alberta School of Business. 

Effective April 30/25, we have cancelled LSEG Data & Analytics. In order to replace much of the content on this platform, we are now subscribing to a Standard & Poors database: S&P Capital IQ Pro. This product replaces the Workspace for Students module from LSEG.

We are also subscribing to S&P’s AfterMarket Research (AMR) database, which is hosted on the S&P Capital IQ Pro platform. This product replaces the AMR module from LSEG.

We will not be replacing the complete Datastream collection on the LSEG platform, but the four individual Datastream collections on the WRDS platform will continue to be available, as those are funded by the Alberta School of Business.

On May 20th at 1:00pm, S&P is providing a live online training session for Library staff. This session will cover both S&P Capital IQ Pro and AfterMarket Research. If you would like to attend please register via Libcal here. A recording of the session will be sent later to those who have registered.

Over the next few months, Elsevier is offering a series of free webinars on UofA-subscribed databases:

Compendex (Engineering Village)
Embase
Knovel
Reaxys
Scopus

From Nature:

Invasion of the ‘journal snatchers’: the firms that buy science publications and turn them rogue

Effective June 30/25, our subscription to Columbia International Affairs Online has been cancelled due to budget cuts.