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What is Workspace?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Workspace is a London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) product that provides access to comprehensive company financial data and economic indicators as well as news, analytics, and more. Eikon with Datastream has been discontinued since August 2025. Laurier Library now offers access to Workspace with Datastream. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n

To access Workspace, you need to request a Workspace userID and password from the Library. Workspace can be accessed via desktop, web, and mobile devices. <\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"},"subContentId":"1bad69fd-45e6-4cb1-90fa-258cb14caf8b"},"useSeparator":"auto"}]},"library":"H5P.Column 1.18","subContentId":"4be865b6-7c91-4c42-b682-f09c4330a32c","metadata":{"contentType":"Page","license":"U","title":"What is Workspace?"}},{"params":{"content":[{"useSeparator":"auto","content":{"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","params":{"text":"

What is Datastream?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Datastream provides current and historical time series data on stocks, indices, bonds, funds, futures, options, interest rates, commodities, currencies, and economic indicators. It allows for retrieving data for multiple companies with multiple indicators and download them all at a time.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n

To access Datastream via Workspace, <\/span><\/span><\/span>you need to request a Workspace userID and password from the Library. <\/p>\n"},"metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"},"subContentId":"ba62e29a-7248-4d2d-9fc9-5d69891d86fd"}}]},"library":"H5P.Column 1.18","subContentId":"4d0a4db4-d3b1-4736-97cc-bc3f324e2db5","metadata":{"contentType":"Page","license":"U","title":"What is Datastream?"}},{"params":{"content":[{"content":{"params":{"text":"

Requesting a Workspace ID:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Three Workspace IDs available for booking. <\/p>\n\n

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After you request an account, you can access Workspace via the web or desktop.<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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Workspace - Web Access<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n
After you book a Workspace account, you can access Workspace via the LSEG web link<\/a> or Laurier Library link<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n
Searching Example<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n
Step-by-step: Downloading price data for public companies via Workspace web (video<\/a>, PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n"},"metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"},"subContentId":"0a75b188-a90b-48ca-9990-bcd41b1c6725"},"alwaysDisplayComments":false,"backgroundOpacity":0,"displayAsButton":false,"buttonSize":"big","goToSlideType":"specified","invisible":false,"solution":""}],"slideBackgroundSelector":{}}],"keywordListEnabled":true,"globalBackgroundSelector":{},"keywordListAlwaysShow":false,"keywordListAutoHide":false,"keywordListOpacity":90},"override":{"activeSurface":false,"hideSummarySlide":false,"summarySlideSolutionButton":true,"summarySlideRetryButton":true,"enablePrintButton":false,"social":{"showFacebookShare":false,"facebookShare":{"url":"@currentpageurl","quote":"I scored @score out of @maxScore on a task at @currentpageurl."},"showTwitterShare":false,"twitterShare":{"statement":"I scored @score out of @maxScore on a task at @currentpageurl.","url":"@currentpageurl","hashtags":"h5p, course"},"showGoogleShare":false,"googleShareUrl":"@currentpageurl"}},"l10n":{"slide":"Slide","score":"Score","yourScore":"Your Score","maxScore":"Max Score","total":"Total","totalScore":"Total Score","showSolutions":"Show solutions","retry":"Retry","exportAnswers":"Export text","hideKeywords":"Hide sidebar navigation menu","showKeywords":"Show sidebar navigation menu","fullscreen":"Fullscreen","exitFullscreen":"Exit fullscreen","prevSlide":"Previous slide","nextSlide":"Next slide","currentSlide":"Current slide","lastSlide":"Last slide","solutionModeTitle":"Exit solution mode","solutionModeText":"Solution Mode","summaryMultipleTaskText":"Multiple tasks","scoreMessage":"You achieved:","shareFacebook":"Share on Facebook","shareTwitter":"Share on Twitter","shareGoogle":"Share on Google+","summary":"Summary","solutionsButtonTitle":"Show comments","printTitle":"Print","printIngress":"How would you like to print this presentation?","printAllSlides":"Print all slides","printCurrentSlide":"Print current slide","noTitle":"No title","accessibilitySlideNavigationExplanation":"Use left and right arrow to change slide in that direction whenever canvas is selected.","accessibilityCanvasLabel":"Presentation canvas. Use left and right arrow to move between slides.","accessibilityProgressBarLabel":"Choose slide to display","containsNotCompleted":"@slideName contains not completed interaction","containsCompleted":"@slideName contains completed interaction","slideCount":"Slide @index of @total","containsOnlyCorrect":"@slideName only has correct answers","containsIncorrectAnswers":"@slideName has incorrect answers","shareResult":"Share Result","accessibilityTotalScore":"You got @score of @maxScore points in total","accessibilityEnteredFullscreen":"Entered fullscreen","accessibilityExitedFullscreen":"Exited fullscreen","confirmDialogHeader":"Submit your answers","confirmDialogText":"This will submit your results, do you want to continue?","confirmDialogConfirmText":"Submit and see results","slideshowNavigationLabel":"Slideshow navigation","confirmDialogConfirmLabel":"Confirm","confirmDialogCancelLabel":"Cancel"}},"library":"H5P.CoursePresentation 1.26","metadata":{"contentType":"Course Presentation","license":"U","title":"Accessing Workspace"},"subContentId":"4e59f0cb-82cc-48ef-b846-a2f51c5a4e4d"},"useSeparator":"auto"}]},"library":"H5P.Column 1.18","subContentId":"9eca4e78-411e-4a14-983c-e3125669b7ca","metadata":{"contentType":"Page","license":"U","title":"Accessing Workspace"}},{"params":{"content":[{"content":{"params":{"presentation":{"slides":[{"elements":[{"x":2.241760409614462,"y":13.285387844755816,"width":97.75465277373016,"height":70.85540183869767,"action":{"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","params":{"text":"
How to Access Datastream via Excel add-in (apply to faculty and students)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n
Note: <\/strong>Windows is required. <\/strong>Datastream\u2019s Excel Add-in is not available for Mac users. <\/span><\/p>\n\n
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Searching Examples: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n
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Downloading Data for Multiple Public Companies with Multiple Variables via Datastream Excel Add-in (PDF<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n\t<\/li>\n\t
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Downloading Economic data with Multiple Variables via Datastream Excel Add-in (PDF<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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Yanli Li <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n
Business and Economics Librarian<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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Business and Economics Librarian<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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Accessing Workspace with Datastream

Brief Introduction

Yanli Li