Archive for September, 2022

E-Journal Access Update

Thursday, September 22nd, 2022

Updated for 12/15/23 – The following online journals on the Elsevier ScienceDirect web site temporarily require the use of a Fuqua VPN or Library Resources VPN session for off-campus access via the link below.

On-campus users (those within a Duke network) seeking articles should search for the journals below via this direct link on ScienceDirect.

  • Accounting, Organizations and Society
  • Advances in Accounting
  • Business Horizons
  • Decision Support Systems
  • European Journal of Operational Research
  • Games and Economic Behavior
  • Industrial Marketing Management
  • International Journal of Forecasting
  • International Journal of Industrial Organization
  • Journal of Accounting and Economics
  • Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
  • Journal of Banking & Finance
  • Journal of Business Research
  • Journal of Business Venturing
  • Journal of Empirical Finance
  • Journal of Financial Economics
  • Journal of International Money and Finance
  • Journal of World Business
  • Long Range Planning
  • Management Accounting Research
  • Omega
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

We’ll post an update when VPN is no longer required for off-campus access to these journals.

New ESG Data Sets From Ford Library

Wednesday, September 21st, 2022

Ford Library is pleased to announce subscriptions to the new ESG-focused data sets below. All of these data sets are hosted on the WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services) platform, and are available to all Duke University students, faculty, and staff.

Refinitiv ESG Data – via WRDS

ESG Scores from Refinitiv are designed to transparently and objectively measure a company’s relative ESG performance, commitment and effectiveness across 10 main themes (emissions, environmental product innovation, human rights, shareholders, etc.) based on publicly-reported data. Data modules include: company screening data, company summary data, industry aggregates, category data, driver & outcome data, and board member data. After connecting to WRDS, select Get Data > Thomson/Refinitiv > Refinitiv ESG

S&P Global ESG Scores via WRDS

An environmental, social and governance dataset that provides company level, dimension level, and criteria level scores based on the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) process and publicly available sources, allowing research on impact to a company’s business value drivers, including growth, profitability, capital efficiency, and risk exposure. After connecting to WRDS, select Get Data > Compustat-Capital IQ > Trucost and S&P Global ESG Scores

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