NYT online free once again

The New York Times has announced that it will stop charging for access to parts of its web site. Previously, the Times charged a subscription fee for online access to the work of its columnists and to the newspaper’s archives. The company posted a letter about its decision to discontinue the TimesSelect subscription product.

There are still large portions of the archives that are not available for free, however. The library's online subscriptions provide online access to the complete backfile. See our NYT Finding Guide for details on how to access all the news that's fit to print, including years that are still under copyright and not available at the NYT web site (1923 to 1986).