1. If you are a current paid New York Times subscriber, first read “What if I’m a current New York Times subscriber?” below.
2. To create your account, go to the New York Times Education Access page..
   Search for and select University of Rhode Island.
   If prompted, log in with your URI Single Sign On (SSO) credentials.
   You will be redirected to the New York Times welcome page.
3. Click on “Create Account” to create an account using your uri.edu email and a unique password of your choice.
   If you already have an account with your uri.edu email, click on “Already have an account? Log in here >>”. 
   • If you are a student, you will be asked for your expected year of graduation. Your account will be active until December 31 of that year. If you remain a student beyond that date, you will need to email edu@nytimes.com to have your first graduation date cleared and then re-authenticate using the link in Step 2. 
   • If you are a faculty or staff member, your account will be active for four years, after which you will need to re-authenticate using the link in Step 2.
4. From this point on, you do not need to use the library link or your URI SSO credentials.
   You can access the NY Times directly via their website or via their apps after logging in with your uri.edu email and the password you created in Step 3.

Note: If you can't seem to get the registration process to work, try switching browsers. Safari's security features may interfere with some of the redirects that allow you to log in.

The New York Times has created a video tutorial for the activation process described above. You can watch it on YouTube. 

What if I'm a current New York Times subscriber?

If you are a current paid subscriber, you will want to decide whether or not to cancel or modify your personal subscription(s) before registering for access through URI. Since URI’s site license now gives you full access to all New York Times online content, including Games, Cooking, Wirecutter, and The Athletic, there is no need to maintain a personal subscription unless you subscribe to the print version of the newspaper.

To cancel or modify your personal subscription, call 800-NYTIMES (800-698-4637) or visit the My Account page.

Note: The New York Times treats Games, Cooking, Wirecutter, and The Athletic as separate subscriptions, in addition to news content, so if you have one or more of these, you may need to cancel each individually.

URI’s site license provides full access to the New York Times on the newspaper’s website and via the NYTimes phone and tablet apps.

URI students, staff, and faculty (including emeriti) have unlimited access to New York Times content back to 1851. Access includes the Spanish and Chinese editions.

New York Times content published between 1851 and 2002 is available via the TimesMachine. Note that for articles published between 1923-1980, access is limited to 5 PDF downloads per day. (For this content, additional options are available; see below.)

The URI community also has access to NYT Audio, an app for audio journalism and storytelling, and New York Times inEducation, a curated site containing articles by topic with learning tools such as classroom discussion questions.

As of January 2024, our subscription includes Games (including The Crossword), Cooking, Wirecutter, and The Athletic.

Once you follow the registration steps above, you may access the New York Times directly via their website or via their apps after logging in with your uri.edu email and the New York Times password you created.

If you need help with your subscription, email edu@nytimes.com.

See the database links below for additional access to the New York Times provided by the URI University Libraries.