LibGuides: Newspapers: New York Times Online

New York Times Online

What you need in order to activate or renew your account:

An active @reed.edu email address

Before you set up your Reed account:

If you already have a nytimes.com account that uses your Reed email address, log out of that account
If you already have a paid subscription using your Reed email address, you will need to cancel your paid subscription and then use the following steps after your cancellation is complete

Account renewal:

Student accounts are active until graduation
Faculty and staff must renew once every four years (the instructions will tell you to add your pass expiration date to your calendar, because they will not send a renewal reminder)

Steps:

Go to www.accessnyt.com and start typing Reed in the search box then select Reed College once it appears.
You will then see an orange box with paths to continue based on whether you are on campus ("click here") or off campus (Go button).
On the next screen, if you do not already have an NYT account using your Reed email address, click Create Account. If you do already have an NYT account tied to your Reed email address, click "Already have an account? Log in here."
When you move on to the next page, don't use the option of Google, Facebook, or Apple to create an account. Instead, enter your Reed email address.
Enter a new-to-you password. For security, do not re-use your Kerberos password.
Choose your status. If you are a student, you must put in your graduation year. (Spring/fall senior? Use the following year as your graduation date. For example, if you're due to finish your thesis at the end of the 2024 fall term, use 2025 as your graduation year.)
Verify your account via the confirmation email.

After claiming your access, you can sign into your NYT account directly at nytimes.com from any computer using the email and password you entered when creating your account. There is no need to go through the library's URL again.

If you are accessing NYT on a public computer, please remember to sign out.

All current Reed students, faculty, and staff have direct access to nytimes.com once you activate an account using your Reed email address. Our campus subscription also includes mobile News apps for iOS and Android, NYT Audio app for iOS, newsletter subscriptions, New York Times in Education (see the NYT for Faculty tab), and archival content via TimesMachine (see NYT Archives tab).

Note that the access provided is equivalent to a “basic” subscription level, so it excludes games like Crossword, Spelling Bee, or Wordle. Currently, we do have access to Cooking and Wirecutter.

New York Times in Education may be of special interest to faculty, because it provides articles sorted by discipline with related instructional strategies, plus activities and other content curated by scholars.

This is a different site from nytimes.com. On campus, you can access it directly from the A-Z list; if you would like to reach this service from off-campus, you will need to set up an account through a separate registration page.

There are two ways to access archived articles directly from The New York Times (NYT):

TimesMachine

You must be logged in to your NYT account to access TimesMachine

TimesMachine provides searchable, full-image page scans of every issue of The New York Times published between 1851 and 2002. Articles published from 1851 to 1980 are available as PDFs; articles published after 1980 are available only in full-text form and not as PDFs.

Due to copyright limitations, PDF downloads are limited to 5 articles per day per user, but older NYT articles are also available in several of our other databases.

The New York Times Article Archive

You do not have to be logged in to your NYT account to use the archive, but articles may count toward article view limits for non-subscribers

The New York Times Article Archive contains the text of articles dating back to 1851 and is accessed through archive search. Articles from 1851 to 1980 are available in either partial or full text; articles published after 1980 are all available as full text. Photographs and illustrations may not be included.

Full-text archive articles include the entire text of an article. Partial articles include an excerpt of the article and a link to TimesMachine where subscribers can view the entire article in its original form.

You may save articles from the Article Archive for personal use. Copying or storing any article for other than personal, non-commercial use requires permission from The New York Times. To learn more about content permissions view Obtaining and Using Times Content.