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Gentle readers,
For those of you bummed out about being given an opportunity to purchase an online subscription to the New York Times as you click on your twenty first article in a month, take note that the Library subscribes to a number of databases that provide full-text access to NYT articles.
The most consistent and up-to-date (like today’s paper) of these is Lexis-Nexis Academic. It’s also the least intuitive, so follow along. You can use the NYT’s own page to identify whatever articles or columnists you’re looking for.
Then go to the CC Library page, click on the Journals tab, type New York Times in the search box, and click on the Lexis-Nexis Academic option. Put your headline or columnist in the search box, select Today or Previous Week from the ‘Specify Date’ drop-down, and click on the item you want.
(Alternatively, go to the CC library page, then to Research Resources (blue panel on the left), then to Databases, then to Lexis-Nexis. Click on Power Search, then News, then the News and Wires option. Then type in the article title or author, and select the date.)
This may be a little awkward, but you can reduce the bother by adding a couple shortcuts to your masthead and doing a number of searches at a time. Then you’ll have to figure out how to use the money you’ve saved.
Jim MacDonald
Shain Library
