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New York Times: Teaching and Research Tools

The New York Times is available free for USU students, staff, and faculty. Find out how to get access!

NYT InEducation and The Learning Network

USU Libraries' New York Times Campuswide Access Program includes access to NYT InEducation and The Learning Network. These resources can help USU faculty and students connect current events with educational objectives.

Featuring

  • Discipline-specific areas of study
  • Classroom discussion prompts
  • Suggested learning outcomes
  • General instructional strategies to promote student achievement
  • Co-Curricular activities including events, and discussions

Access to InEducation requires the creation of a separate account using your USU email address, please see below.

NYT Learning Tools for the Classroom

InEducation is The New York Times’s curricular tool, focused on helping faculty and students connect what’s happening in the news with their studies. 

Features

  • 16 disciplines
  • Weekly updates by faculty contributors
  • Questions for discussion and analysis
  • General instructional strategies
  • Leadership focus

To access InEducation, faculty and students must create a separate account using your USU email address.

Please use the NYT InEducation Registration Form to create an account using your USU email address.

The Learning Network is a broader-based curricular tool from the New York Times which, though geared towards a high-school aged audience, includes lessons, prompts, and co-curricular activities that USU faculty may find useful in the classroom.

Features

  • Over 1,000 resources published each year to ensure materials are relevant and up to date
  • Lesson plans
  • News and geography quizzes
  • Student opinion questions
  • Picture prompts and graph prompts
  • Current events conversations
  • Writing curriculum
  • Professional development webinars

To access The Learning Network, please select "Log In" in the upper right corner of the page and enter your USU NYT account credentials.

Using NYT Content

If you would like to share a NYT article with your class, click the share icon under the article's title and select the "Copy link" option.

Please encourage students to register for their USU NYT account to access articles.

Creating a PDF copy of an article to share with students is not allowed - for more information please see Linking to NYTimes.com.

Access to the NYT TimesMachine archive is included with USU Libraries' site-wide subscription. However, users are limited to 5 PDF article downloads from the TimesMachine per day.

If you wish to extensively use NYT archival material for research or teaching, please consider using the ProQuest Historical Newspaper New York Times archive, as it does not have the same restrictions on downloads: