A New York Times digital edition subscription is available to all MIT faculty, students, and staff

Register for access

1. Sign up for an account with your MIT email address and kerberos: MIT NYT pass registration

> If you are having trouble registering, try clearing the cache and cookies on your browser, and/or connect to MIT's VPN.

2. After registering, you can access the New York Times directly by going to nytimes.com or connecting via mobile app

If you currently have a paid personal account with your MIT email address

- Contact NYT, cancel personal account, and set up an MIT account. Cancellation will occur when current subscription expires. 

If you currently have a paid personal account with a non-MIT email address

- Set up an MIT account, and cancel your personal account if you wish.

NYT Cooking and Games subscribers

- You cannot add these subscriptions to your free MIT account. They must be on a different email address (you do not need an additional digital newspaper subscription).

To cancel an existing account, please contact New York Times Customer Care:

• Phone: 800-591-9233

• Live chat

• Student subscriptions are valid through graduation date entered at sign up
• Faculty/staff subscriptions are valid for four years. Renew access at accessnyt.com

To renew:

1. Click on Already have an account? Log in here. Login with the same username and password that you registered with. If you have forgotten your password, click the Forgot password? link.
2. You will see an on-screen confirmation that your pass has been reactivated, the new expiration date, and an option to add a calendar reminder for next year.

Please note the New York Times Terms of Service and Privacy agreements.

NYT Live chat

OR

800-591-9233

 New York Times Contact Us page

MIT help: libraries.mit.edu/ask

For advanced search functions, use our subscriptions in academic databases:

• Global Newsstream

  1980 - today

• Nexis Uni

  1980 - today

• Factiva

  1980 - today

• New York Times Historical Archive

  1851-2019

• New York Times Review of Books

  1988 - current

• New York Times Magazine

  1980 - current

• Available for text and data mining through Proquest's TDM Studio

1857 – current

• Search for a specific edition

Included in our subscription:

• 1851 to current day and all updates
• International, Spanish and Chinese editions
• All NYT produced videos, blogs, newsletters, subscriber events
• Teaching and learning tools with 16 discipline channels, curated articles, discussion questions, co-curricular activities
• Access through web browser and personal devices/mobile app

• The Athletic - you must log in to access this service. Click "log in" in the upper left of The Athletic page, and then choose "sign up with the New York Times."

Not included:  

NYT Games, NYT Cooking, e-reader replica edition

Hayden Library (14S-100) has a print subscription to The New York Times.

If you would like a print subscription to The New York Times, contact their subscriptions department for an educational rate.