FAQs
How can I access The New York Times?

Depending on the date of The New York Times issue you seek, you can either obtain it online from home with your NYPL card, online at specific NYPL locations, or in print or microcfilm format at certain NYPL locations.

If you are seeking full-text articles of the New York Times from the present date to one year (365 days) back, you can use the New York Times & New York Post Full-text (Gale) database, accessible from home with a valid NYPL card at NYPL's Branch Libraries' Electronic Resources page (http://www.nypl.org/databases/) or from any NYPL location. Once on the Electronic Resources page, scroll down to (or click in the menu on) the category entitled Newspapers/Magazines, click on the New York Times & New York Post Full-Text (Gale) database, and if you are accessing it from home, click on [connect from home], then enter your NYPL card number.

If you are seeking issues of the New York Times from 1999 to the present, you can access the database The New York Times Current from ProQuest at the Donnell Library, Fordham Library Center, Mid-Manhattan Library, and St. George Library branches.

If you are seeking New York Times issues from 1851-1999, you can access the database New York Times Historical Newspapers from ProQuest 1851-1999 at the the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, the Donnell Library, the Fordham Library Center, the Mid-Manhattan Library, and the St. George Library.

In addition, you can check our online catalogs (at http://www.nypl.org/books/) to see which branches carry the issues of The New York Times that you seek.

The NYPL locations with the most extensive holdings of the New York Times are the Humanities and Social Sciences Library (http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/index.html) and the Mid-Manhattan Library (http://www.nypl.org/branch/central/mml/).

The General Research Division has the New York Times Ondisc which contains the complete text of the New York Times beginning in 1990. Updated monthly. Located on a single computer in the South Hall of the Main Reading Room. The Mid-Manhattan Library's General Reference collection has the NYT Ondisc from 1996; updated quarterly.