Accessing the New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education
Accessing the New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education
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New York Times (nytimes.com) This link opens in a new windowAccess to the nytimes.com. How to access the UI LIbraries subscription to the nytimes.com:
Register at http://AccessNYT.com and then use https://www.nytimes.com/ for access afterwards. You must register annually to keep access.
After registration you will be able to access the resource on any device. Access news articles from 1980 to the present. When
accessing it on campus we have NO access to 1923-1980 but if you are off-campus you have 5 articles per day for 1923-1980 content (due to a lawsuit between publisher and vendor), all other years are available on and off campus.
Note: Our subscription does not include the cooking app or the full size crossword puzzle.
The University of Iowa Libraries has purchased a subscription that provides all students, staff, and faculty complimentary, full access to The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Follow the steps below to register for a complimentary subscription to The Chronicle of Higher Education.
- Click the following link to log-in using the UI Libraries subscription. https://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/chronicle
- If off-campus you will need to enter your hawkid and password to gain initial access to the site.
- If you see the message "Site license access provided by University of Iowa" in the top left corner of The Chronicle site, then you are ready for the next step. If you do not see this message, use the link provided above to re-open The Chronicle.
- Click on the 'Sign In' option at the top right corner of the page.
- Choose the 'Sign Up' tab.
- Enter your first and last name. It is essential that you enter your UI email address in this step. Your password can (and should, for the sake of security) be unique to this site. Click 'Sign Up'.
- You'll receive an email asking you to confirm your account.
- From now on you should be able to use this log-in combination -- your UI email and unique password -- to access Chronicle content without using the proxy url log-in process each time.
Current Subscriptions received in Media Services
Local newspapers
- Iowa City Press-Citizen
- The Des Moines Register
- Cedar Rapids Gazette
National/International newspapers
- Chicago Tribune
- The Christian Science Monitor
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
- The Guardian Weekly
- Le Monde
- The New York Times
- The Times (London)
- USA Today
- The Wall Street Journal
- The Washington Post
Selected Resource
The Chronicle of Higher Education
One of the many newspapers with a national focus that we have access to through the University of Iowa is The Chronicle of Higher Education. This bi-weekly newspaper specializes in information related to college and university news.
To access this newspaper, you can search through it by using one of our databases that has access to it, including Academic Search Elite, Business Insights: Essentials and Gale Academic OneFile. These databases have coverage starting from 1999 to the present. There is a 30 day delay before new articles from The Chronicle of Higher Education are placed in these databases. If you would like to read these newer articles, you can search through the newspaper publisher's website at this address: The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Newspapers
Newspaper articles are great research tools. They can keep you up to date on current affairs. They can also serve as primary sources and enable you to put events into historical context. The University of Iowa Libraries have numerous resources that will allow you to locate news materials on a local, national and international scale. You can find information on politics, business and finance, sports, pop culture, etc. Regardless of your topic - the Obama administration, the Iowa flood of 2008, movie reviews for Star Wars from 1977, the Spanish American War or Y2K - newspapers are valuable resources.
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