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Database Access to the New York Times

There are two popular versions of the New York Times (NYT): the print edition and the digital edition that appears on the NYT website. These different editions have similar content, and both of these editions of the of the New York Times are available in an online format through the following library databases:

New York Times (print edition, online format)

New York Times Online (digital edition, online format)

Limitations

  • The Library does not have physical copies of the daily New York Times. 

  • Due to copyright restrictions, database versions of The New York Times articles may not include photographs. 

  • Articles published in the New York Times Online may have different publication dates and titles than the print edition of New York Times found in library databases. If you can't locate a version of an article, expand your the date range of your search and search using keywords related to the subject of the article.

To find the The New York Times in Search@UW, please follow the instructions below:

  1. Enter the newspaper title, The New York Times, into the main Search@UW search bar on the UWM Libraries homepage.

    Search@UW Search bar with "The New York Times" in the search bar.

  2. Go to the "Resource Type"  filter and select "Newspapers" (under Refine my Results on the left).Then click "Apply Filters."

    Results page with newspaper highlighted and apply filter button

     

  3. Use the Sign In link in the in the gold banner to log in to your library account.
  4. Click on the first The New York Times result.  


    Search@UW search results with the sign in banner and New York Times highlighted
     

  5. Click on the database link that says "Gale Academic One File available 01/01/1985"

    New York Times Record with the database link for Gale academic one file highlighted
     
  6. The database link will take you to an access page for the The New York Times. Follow these steps to browse by date or to search by topic or article title.

    • select the year you would like to search

    • select the day you would like to browse

    • if you have the name of the article, you can type it in the search bar or keywords of the article title. If you just want to browse The New York Times, you should at least have keywords that you would like to search

      Access page to the New York Times, with small year to the left, date to the right, and search bar at the top
       

  7. Click on the "News" option, to limit results to new articles. 

    New York Times article results page with news filter highlighted at the top of page
     

  8. Use the options in the upper right of the page to email yourself a copy of the article You can either email the article to yourself or download it as a PDF file.  

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