Research Guides: Resources for Data Scholarship in Business &amp; Economics: Library Mediated Access Datasets

What are library mediated access datasets?

This guide consolidates the available mediated subscription or restricted data resources in the fields of business and economics for researchers at NYU. These resources encompass various data products that may require:

Accounts assigned by the library
Submitting additional documentations including Term of Use, DMP (data management plan), or connecting to Research Workspace for data access
Accounts or API key assigned by the library

Requirements vary depending on the specific data products. Please refer to the provided details below.

Databases & Datasets with Mediated Access

CB Insights faculty account
Faculty accounts with expanded downloading capabilities may be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Request access to CB Insights faculty account via Library Mediated Accounts Request Form (Google Form)
Kindly visit the CB Insights website for regular interactive data search and retrieval.
Consumer Historical
Data Axle (formerly known as Infogroup) Consumer Historical data is compiled from data provided by more than 100 sources including real estate, tax assessments, voter registrations, utility connections, bill processors and more.
D&B U.S. DMI Archive
This service features access to D&B’s Global Archive which consists of historical business records from active and inactive international companies. There are 5 different files that make up the D&B Global Archive offering.

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Gallup World Poll and U.S. Daily Tracking data at the respondent level provides a much-enhanced ability to trace connections between concepts and countries. Users can request extracts of the data behind Gallup's data surveys and get extracts that are generated by Data Services.
Users must create an account with Gallup's WorldPoll Reference tool to discover data. See the documentation for complete information.
L2 Political Academic Voter File This link opens in a new window
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The L2 Political Academic Voter File is a person-level dataset that represents the entire population of the United States that is registered to vote. L2 Political aggregates data from each of the states' public voter roles and supplements each record with modeled demographic variables, such as party affiliation, income, and many others. NYU licenses access to a map-based data extraction tool (VoterMapping) and also provides access to the underlying data files via NYU Research Workspace. The data file is updated on a continuous basis.
Because this data contains personally identifying information (PID), users of the VoterMapping extraction tool must be current NYU faculty, researchers, or doctoral students and must agree to the Terms of Use, which include asserting that the requested data represents research that has been registered with NYU's University Committee of Research Involving Human Subjects. Please see the L2 Political Academic Voter File Research Guide for more information.

LexisNexis REST API
The LexisNexis Academic Web Services API (WSApi) is a subscription service that allows researchers to text mine LexisNexis' full text news collections, including business and economic news sources.
Nielsen Kilts Datasets
The Nielsen and NielsenIQ datasets at the Kilts Center for Marketing is a relationship between the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and the Nielsen Company, and makes select Nielsen marketing datasets available to academic researchers. Only tenured and tenure-track faculty, PhD students, and post-docs - with approved projects - are eligible to gain direct access to Nielsen datasets.
RealtyTrac
Data from RealtyTrac covers information on property foreclosures that have taken place in the United States between January 1, 2005 and January, 2016. The data, drawn from information released in public tax records across the United States, is not available to the public. It includes information on property characteristics, location, ownership, and use.
ReferenceUSA: Annual Data Archive
Annual data available for downloading (codebook) beginning in 1997 for research and analysis purposes. (Log in first with your NYU credentials to view). |
Kindly visit the ReferenceUSA website for regular interactive data search and retrieval.

LSEG Workspace This link opens in a new window
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1. Individual account creation required before you can login. Account requests require a mandatory 7-10 business day processing period.
2. Users with existing accounts may log into the web interface here. Also known as Eikon, LSEG Workspace provides access to fundamental financial data on public companies, merger and acquisitions, financial market data and quotes, analyst reports, and private equity and venture capital. It features powerful screening and charting capabilities.
3. Kindly visit the LSEG guide for more information.
Each user is permitted to view and/or download up to 150 pages of analyst report content ("AMR") per 24 hour period. Faculty may request expanded AMR access - pending availability - by emailing the Business Library team using our form.

Users may log in via the LSEG web platform, or optionally via LSEG's Mac and PC software.
Datastream This link opens in a new window
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This resource provides a comprehensive historical database service by LSEG that encompasses daily prices, trading volumes, and return indices, updated at the end of every trading day, for equities in countries around the world, data on bonds, options and other derivatives, mutual funds (unit trusts), market indices, exchange rates, macroeconomic variables, and corporate financial data.

SDC Platimum
SDC (Securities Data Company) Platinum is a collection of financial transaction databases from Thomson Reuters which includes Mergers & Acquisitions, Global New Issues, Corporate Governance, Corporate Restructurings, Venture Capital, and Global Public Finance.

WRDS: Wharton Research Data Services This link opens in a new window
WRDS is a data platform that specializes in historical financial information for banks, government bonds, stock exchanges, and major companies. It is intended solely for academic research and teaching purposes. Popular datasets include Compustat, CRSP, TAQ, and IBES. First time users should consult our WRDS guide for help.
Account or on-site "Day Pass" required for access. WRDS access is restricted to currently enrolled/employed members of NYU. No exceptions.

Resources for Data Scholarship in Business & Economics

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