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Jessie Ball duPont Library

Major National Newspapers Online

What is included

Sewanee students, faculty, and staff members can now enjoy free New York Times All Access.

Access includes everything The New York Times offers:

  • News: Understand the world with original reporting from 1,700 journalists

  • Games: Spelling Bee, Wordle, The Crossword and more.

  • Cooking: Recipes, advice and inspiration for any occasion.

  • Wirecutter: Independent reviews for thousands of products

  • The Athletic: In-depth, personalized sports journalism.

NYTimes.com Access - 170+ years of original reporting, investigation and analysis, including interactive graphics, visual investigations, Op-Docs, Live coverage, and more only available directly from NYTimes.com and the NYT News App.

NYT News App - Available for all of your iOS and Android devices, the app enables a personalized feed and push notifications on topics of interest. Preferences can be managed through App Settings.

TimesMachine - A browser-based digital replica of all issues from 1851 to 2002. Registered users through group subscriptions are able to download 5 PDFs per day, with unlimited browsing.

The New York Times Article Archive - Accessible via search, the archive provides partial and full-text digital versions of articles from 1851 to today and redirects to TimesMachine where applicable.

Subscriber-Only Newsletters - An exclusive collection of over 20 newsletters, available only to News subscribers; there are 80+ newsletters total. Users can select and manage their newsletters during onboarding, by going to the Newsletter page, or through My Account.

Gift Articles - Subscribers receive 10 articles per month to give to an unlimited number of people, including non-subscribers. Sharing is enabled via the gift icon in the article tools list under the headline.

Saved articles - Subscribers can save articles by selecting the Save button in the article tools list under the headline. Saved articles are accessible in the News app and on NYTimes.com by going to My Account or directly to your Reading List when logged in.

Select NYT Games - Although Wordle, Sudoku, and the Mini are available for free through NYT Games or the NYT Games app, additional games, including Spelling Bee, The Crossword, Vertex, and more are included in this subscription.

NYT Audio App - Discover award-winning podcasts, “Reporter Reads” of articles, Critic Picks across movies, music, and food, and additional audio versions of journalism from other favorite magazines like Rolling Stone, Outside, and New York Magazine. The NYT Audio app is a News subscriber-only benefit.

Instructions for Activating your Account

Go to this link:

 

https://go.openathens.net/redirector/sewanee.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Fezmyaccount.nytimes.com%2Fgrouppass%2Fredir

 

First you will get the OpenAthens login screen:

Choose the Sewanee Single Sign On option and sign in to your account. (Your email address without @sewanee.edu, with the password you use for Banner and for your email account.) Note: You may be shown this screen instead of the first one.

 

You will then get this screen:

Click on Create Account.

You will then get this screen:

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Ignore the Google, Facebook, and Apple logins. Instead, enter your Sewanee email address and choose your own password for your NYT account. (You do not have to use your Sewanee password.)

You will then get this screen:

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Student accounts will expire on December 31 of your graduation year. Faculty and staff accounts will expire in four years, and you will need to renew it after that time. (See renewal instructions below.)

You can now go to the regular NYT website at https://www.nytimes.com/   from any computer in any network and log in with your new account for full access.

Renewing your New York Times Group Pass Account

Faculty and staff accounts need to be renewed every four years. To renew your account when it has expired, first go to same link given above for the initial activation:

https://go.openathens.net/redirector/sewanee.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Fezmyaccount.nytimes.com%2Fgrouppass%2Fredir

and log in as before.

Instead of clicking on "Create Account" click on "Already have an account? Log in here."

Use your existing credentials to log in. If you have forgotten your password, there will be a "Forgot your password?" prompt after you enter your email address, and you'll be able to reset it.

This will renew your pass for another four years.

Mobile Access

Your New York Times All Access Academic Pass provides full access to NYT apps; visit http://nytimes.com/mobile to download. To access these apps, users must first create a New York Times account, and claim the Academic All Access Pass. These apps can be found in the major app stores for Android, Apple, and Google.

 

The Athletic

Through the University's NYT Academic Pass, patrons also have access to The Athletic. The Athletic delivers powerful stories and smart analysis that bring sports fans closer to the heart of the game.

To access this resource, users must first create a New York Times account, and claim the Academic All Access Pass. Then follow these steps:

Go to theathletic.com, and click log in on the top right of the screen. You will the be directed to the below screen:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To access The Athletic, and link it to your Academic All Access Pass, you must log in using the "Continue with The New York Times" option. This will link your NYT account with your new Athletic account.

In the next screen, it will ask you to log in using your New York TImes account.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The first time you log in to The Athletic, you will be require to confirm your account with a code. You will recieve an email like below, and enter this code into the webpage.

Once you have entered the code, your Athletic account will be confirmed. You will always need to log in to The Athletic using the "Continue with The New York Times" option, but you should not be required to confirm your account by the email code other than when you first set up your account.

New York Times in Education

In addition to all of the content available on NYTimes.com, Sewanee also has access to a companion resource called the New York Times in Education. This site is designed to help faculty and students identify ways to incorporate NYTimes.com content into the curriculum and connect the real world to the classroom.

This site is located at nytimes.com/spotlight/nytimesineducation. Students and faculty can access the tool while logged in to their New York Times account—they don't need to save multiple passwords or navigate away from The Times.

InEducation now provides curated reading lists, updated weekly during the academic year, across 12 disciplines of study. Students can explore journalism relevant to their courses and academic interests, and professors can use these as jumping off points for classroom assignments, readings, and discussions.

These reading lists include all The Times has to offer—including multimedia journalism, opinion coverage, newsletters, audio, investigative reporting, and so much more to fuel learning and understanding.

The site is currently divided into 12 areas of study:

American Government
Biology
Computer science
English
Environmental Studies
Finance and Economics
The Arts
Health Sciences
History
Leadership
Psychology
Sociology

Note: In order to access the InEducation tool, users must activate their News subscription and log in using the same account information.

 

NYT Archive Collections

Sewanee's subscription to The New York Times website provides access to breaking news as well as blogs and other online content not included in the Library's databases that cover the paper. On the other hand, the databases allow access to the paper’s content and more powerful searching capabilities. Students, faculty, and staff who wish to use The New York Times for research purposes should access the paper via the following means: