Thank you for your interest in Wharton Research Data Services, the Global Standard for Business Research. WRDS is available to corporate firms, universities, research institutions, and nonprofit organizations.

Recognized as the leading business intelligence tool, WRDS allows researchers to easily retrieve information from a wide variety of financial, economic, and marketing data sources.

The databases on WRDS can be accessed by researchers whose organization maintains a license agreement with WRDS and with the appropriate data sources. WRDS in turn provides a comprehensive suite of Research Services in addition to intuitive data delivery.

Please complete our request form for additional information on obtaining WRDS for your organization.

Please note: If you are a current WRDS user, please contact WRDS by using the support request form after you have logged-in.

The databases on WRDS can be accessed by researchers whose organization maintains license agreements both with WRDS and with the appropriate data vendor. As data licenses and fees are separate and arranged directly with our data vendor partners, it is necessary to contact the data vendors for current data subscription information. WRDS acts as a liaison to the data vendors for our prospective subscribers.

Please complete the request form with your specific data interest(s) so we may provide you with the appropriate contact information.

• A two-week WRDS trial may be made available to an academic, government, non-profit, or commercial organization.
• WRDS policy limits trials to only one per organization.
• Trial accounts are not available to individuals.
• Trials must be requested by full time employees.
• Trials include access to the following data:
  • Bank Regulatory
  • Blockholders
  • CBOE Indexes
  • Direct Marketing Educational Foundation (DMEF)
  • Dow Jones
  • Fama-French ("Research") Portfolios and Factors
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
  • Federal Reserve Bank Reports
  • Penn World Tables
  • Philadelphia Stock Exchange United Currency Options
  • SEC Disclosure of Order Execution
  • TRACE
• Trials may include additional data with prior approval from the data vendor.