Free access to New York Times online for all WFU faculty, staff, students

October 19, 2021

This message is sent on behalf of Tim Pyatt, Dean of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library.

I am pleased to announce that ZSR Library now provides institutional access to the New York Times Online free of charge to all WFU faculty, staff and students.

Access to NYTimes.com complements ZSR’s existing database access to the Historical New York Times and the electronic version of the print editions, as well as our existing site-wide access to the Wall Street Journal, The Economist and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Our institutional subscription to NYTimes.com includes access to the NYT mobile app for phones and tablets, plus additional features, such as quizzes, subscriber-only newsletters, podcasts, interactive content, audio, video, and access to the education resource website, nytimes.com/edu. Our access also includes access to Spanish and Mandarin Chinese versions of NYTimes.com. It does not include e-reader editions, NYT Cooking, or New York Times Games (including the NYT Crossword). More information is available in this blog post.

How to Sign Up for NYT Access through WFU

If you do not already have a NYTimes.com account using your wfu.edu address, use this link to Activate Your Access Today.

If you already have an existing NYT account using your WFU email address, you’ll need to follow one of these steps before using the link above to activate your access through WFU.

• EXISTING registered subscribers with ACTIVE PAID subscriptions need to cancel their personal subscription by calling 800-698-4637 or chat with an agent on the site. You will see an “Access Unavailable” notice if you try to sign up without cancelling your existing subscription. NYT recommends waiting 24 hours after cancelling before trying to activate your access through WFU.
• EXISTING registered subscribers that DO NOT HAVE ACTIVE PAID NYT subscription can visit accessnyt.com and click on “Already have an account “Log In”. Input their wfu.edu email address and the same “Password” created for their previous account. If the subscriber encounters an error message that subscriber can email with edu@nytimes.com.

Providing access to NYTimes.com aligns with ZSR Library’s mission to inspire learning, advance knowledge, and build community, and we are confident that it will benefit the Wake Forest community. Please direct any questions to your library liaison or to askzsr@wfu.edu.