Bloomberg is not available online and can only be accessed via dedicated terminals in Gateway building.

The Bloomberg terminal has a monthly download limit which is remotely enforced by Bloomberg. Once the limit has been reached nobody is able to download data until it resets on the first of the month.

Access to Bloomberg is therefore prioritised as follows:

• Academic staff in Business School
• Postgraduate research students in Business School
• Postgraduate students on MSc Economics, MSc Finance, MSc Finance & Management, MSc Finance & Economics, MSc Banking & Finance or MSc Energy Policy and Finance
• Undergraduates who have Bloomberg as part of a taught module

Before requesting access to Bloomberg you should search our other Financial and Economic data resources to see if the data you require is available. These resources are all available online and have fewer restrictions on what can be downloaded. 

Students not in the groups listed above:

Please note that access is not always possible due to demand and that any access granted can only be for a limited amount of time and at certain times of the academic year. This is to ensure that students who need access to Bloomberg for assessed work are able to get access to the terminals when the room is not being used for teaching.

To find out if Bloomberg can be made available to you please contact us at library@st-andrews.ac.uk  providing us with the following information:

• Name
• Programme of study
• Year of study
• Purpose for which you need to use Bloomberg:
  • to complete certification 
  • to use data for an assignment or dissertation (please specific module)
  • you are participating in the Bloomberg trading challenge (your group should first have arranged for a Faculty Adviser, details of your adviser and names of all the students in the group should be included when sending in your request for access)
• Length of time you need to access Bloomberg for (if you wish to complete certification then the Bloomberg Market Concepts course takes 8-12 hours to complete but does not all need to be done in one go - please factor this in when planning your studies)