What Research Software Does W. P. Carey Use?

Research Databases & Applications
Available to: Graduate Students, Faculty and Staff

BIT supports access to data sources and services as well as software to access and manipulate research data. Examples are Compustat, CRSP, Factiva, FDIC and many others.

BIT also supports access to a variety of data acquisition and manipulation software packages in support of the W. P. Carey School research mission. Services include software installation, software utilization, database access, and new software compatibility testing. A list of available licensed analytical software is found below. Funding for software that is not currently available through our licensed library can be provided by an academic department, a research grant, or may be requested in an annual software funding cycle conducted by the Business IT Strategic Oversight Committee (BITSOC).

Business IT is committed to providing access for the products listed in this section including installation, configuration and granting access to data that requires an account, such as WRDS, DataStream, or SDC.

Core Supported products have the following characteristics:

Products are critical to the WPC Mission
Products are widely used across the main WPC Campuses
Sufficient support resources exist
Valid licenses exist

If an application, or data resource, is not listed below then please follow these steps to request it.

Please click on an application or data item for more information regarding it

Applications	Data services	Data Sources
Amos	Bloomberg	Capital IQ
Arena	DataStream	Compustat
Enterprise Miner	DRI Pro	CRSP
Eventus	Factiva	CRSP Mutual Funds
Eviews	Lexis Academic Universe	DJ Averages
Gauss	Lexis Research Client	FDIC
Limdep	Market Insight	FER
Lisrel	SDC	Execucomp
Matlab	WRDS	PHLX
SAS		Research Insight
SPSS-PASW
STATA
Stat Transfer
Text Miner

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