From: James Simon <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:59:28 +0000

Last summer, the publishers of The New York Times introduced an “Academic
Site License” to www.nytimes.com for educational institutions.  The Center
for Research Libraries (CRL) has negotiated terms for subscription under
the academic site license for CRL member libraries, and several CRL
libraries have subscribed under those terms.   Similar terms are also
available to members of NERL and a number of other U.S. consortia
affiliated with CRL.

Information about the resource and the general terms of the offer are at:

http://edesiderata.crl.edu/resources/new-york-times

Details on pricing for CRL members are available there as well; non-CRL US
and Canadian libraries should contact their own consortium to determine
whether they are eligible for the CRL site license.

The academic site license has some real limitations and, as Stephen Maher
points out, can be costly for larger universities.  CRL is continuing to
work with the publisher to improve the terms of the license.

So far as we know, the Wall Street Journal has not yet come up with a
comparable pricing scheme for institutions. They are primarily focused
instead on individual subscriptions. They have quoted figures to some
institutions for a "group program," but costs for this option appear to be
quite high.

James Simon
Director of International Resources
Center for Research Libraries

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From: "Maher, Stephen" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 13:14:49 +0000

Other than licensing these newspapers from 3rd Party Aggregators
(LexisNexis, EBSCO, ProQuest, etc.) do any universities license the New
York Times or Wall Street Journal direct from the publisher?

Historically I believe it’s been cost-prohibitive to do. Is this still true?

Thank you,

Stephen Maher, MSIS
NYU Health Sciences Library