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Access the New York Times

Current BU students, faculty, and staff may access the New York Times online through the BU Libraries academic group pass. A subscription through the BU Libraries provides access to all New York Times journalism: from articles dating back to 1851 to today’s breaking news and latest features. This subscription also provides access to the mobile news app, the TimesMachine and archives, podcasts, multimedia features, and subscriber-only newsletters.

Please note this subscription does not include crossword puzzles, NYT Games, Cooking, Wirecutter, or The Athletic. New York Times access is not available to BU alumni and affiliated researchers.

Create Your Academic Group Pass

To complete your account registration, follow the instructions below:

  1. Log into the NYT group pass with your BU credentials
  2. Select “Create Account”
  3. Follow the prompts onscreen to create a new account OR if you have an existing account, log in to associate the account with the BU group pass
  4. Select your BU affiliation:
    1. If you are a Student, you will be asked to select your expected graduation date
    2. If you are Faculty/Staff, your account credentials will expire after four years. Make a note of the expiration date on the registration confirmation page, as you will need to re-register at that time (see Renewing Your Academic Group Pass)
  5. Once your account is created, you can login at nytimes.com from anywhere.

*BU Law students and faculty should register through the School of Law’s NYT group pass.

      Users with Existing Accounts

      • If you have a personal paid subscription and wish to switch to our academic group pass, you will first have to cancel your subscription.  
      • If you have a personal subscription that includes features not provided by BU’s group pass (e.g., Games, Cooking), you may not want to cancel your subscription, as you will lose access to this content and associated information (e.g., game scores, winning streaks).  
      • For questions about cancelling existing accounts, please contact New York Times Customer Care: 

      Renewing Your Academic Group Pass

      For BU faculty and staff only. When your access expires, please re-register using BU’s NYT group pass here. If you have issues with renewing your account, you can report a problem