Q. Can students and staff access the New York Times or NYTimes.com from the Purchase College Library?

The New York Times charges users subscription fees to read the newspaper online or via their mobile app. After viewing a certain number of free articles per month at NYTimes.com, you’ll have to pay for access. 

Fortunately, Purchase College Library provides current students and staff with free access to the full text of the New York Times via library newspaper databases.

The Library does not subscribe to the print version of the New York Times.  Access is via the Library's online databases only.

IMPORTANT NOTE: You must be a current student or staff member at Purchase College Library with a valid Purchase username and login to access the New York Times through our databases. There is no online access for guests.

Get full text of current and historic New York Times articles in Library Databases:

Students and staff can access New York Times articles from 1851 through today in the following library subscription databases, found in the Databases By Title list on the Library Homepage.

Advantages of using library databases to access the New York Times include:

• unlimited number of simultaneous users
• powerful keyword searching
• permanent links to articles
• complete access to historical content from 1851-present.  

The "look and feel" of the New York Times in a library database differs from NYTimes.com. Newer articles are available in HTML (text) only; historical articles may appear as PDFs. You won't see the headlines, columns, or ads that appear in the web version, and you may not see photographs, blogs, charts, videos, or other online-only content.

The following links take you directly to the New York Times in various library databases.

Students and staff who are off-campus must sign in with their Purchase credentials for access:

• US Newsstream (formerly known as ProQuest News & Newspapers)

  • Contains articles from 1980-present
  • For today's paper, go to the "Choose an issue to view" section
  • Click "Show issue contents" next to today's date (or change to desired date)
  • You can view your results in Page Order or Reverse Page Order, or choose to "Search Within" your results for a specific keyword, author, or article title
     

• Historical New York Times (from ProQuest)

  • Contains articles from 1851-2020
  • Includes PDFs of most articles to show historical context
  • Just type in search terms to get started!
     

• Gale OneFile News (from Gale)

  • Click on today's date at the top of the list in the scroll box in the center of the page.
  • If you don't see today's date listed, make sure the current year is selected from the dropdown menu under "Full-text coverage"
  • You can type keywords, authors, or article titles in "search within publication" in the upper left corner
     

• Newspaper Source Plus (from Ebsco) 

  • Does not provide access to today’s paper but is current as of one day ago (yesterday's paper).
  • Choose the Month/Day you want to read from the list of dates on the right
  • Add keywords to the second search box at the top of the page to search within results

Looking for New York Times Magazine?

You can access the New York Times Magazine supplement, which comes out on weekly on Sundays, via ProQuest Research Library.

To find other online newspapers at the Library, see the Finding Newspaper Guide.