Students and staff now have full complimentary access to NYTimes.com and NYTimes mobile apps. NYTimes.com covers a variety of topics through breaking news articles, blogs, videos and interactive features. In addition, you will be able to share content on social networks, save articles of interest, subscribe to email newsletters and set up personalized alerts. Your access to NYTimes.com is available from any location, on or off campus.
Overview and Key Features
Overview
NYTimes.com is a multi-platform news tool that provides full access to New York Times content, including breaking news, multimedia, reviews and opinion, blogs, videos and more. NYTimes.com is updated 24/7. From the home page, one can access more than 25 Times sections, including World, Politics, New York, Opinion, Business, Technology, Science, Sports, Arts, Fashion & Style, and Video.
Sharing & Commenting
NYTimes.com allows the user to email an article (to both subscribers and non-subscribers) and share it via social media. Its cross-platform feature allows the user to retrieve saved articles from the device of his/her choice. The permalink feature allows hyperlinks to easily be added to any Course Management System. Users are able to submit comments on each article, and will be posted upon review by the New York Times newsroom.
Newsletters, Alerts & Times Wire
NYTimes.com provides 30+ daily and weekly newsletters on topics such as Today's Headlines, Breaking News, Business, Movies Update, and Cooking. Custom alerts can also be created to monitor when specific keywords appear in NYTimes.com (instructors can require students to set specific alerts).
Mobility
Access NYTimes.com ‘on the go’ using a collection of phone and tablet apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and Kindle Fire.
Historical Coverage
NYTimes.com institutional subscriptions provide full access to New York Times articles published since 1851 (the only limitation is for articles from 1923 - 1980: users can only access 100 articles per 4 weeks, due to a copyright ruling).
Search
NYTimes.com provides searchable access to articles, videos, blogs, features, interviews, obituaries, and columns. NYTimes.com features a single search box with result-filtering that includes date range, result type (article vs. blog), section, author and the ability to search on ‘images only.’
Today’s Paper
Today’s Paper section allows the user to read all of the current day’s print content in a digital format. Contained in this section are all of the articles found in that day’s print edition (along with corresponding page numbers).
Times Topics
Times Topics pages consolidate all the news, reference and archival information, photos, graphics, audio and video files published on predefined topics ranging from A M Castle & Company to Zyuganov, Gennadi A. Times Topics pages cover people, subjects, organizations, and places. Times Topics also provides other resources from around the web that have been selected by researchers and editors of The New York Times.
