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Please get a library card if you wish to read quality (often paywalled) news sources for free. Your tax dollars (going to your city/county) are already paying f

Please get a library card if you wish to read quality (often paywalled) news sources for free. Your tax dollars (going to your city/county) are already paying for access. Best of all, it's digital. Your library card number will grant you huge access to all of this digitally and in near real time (e.g., the databases are updated daily).

symlinkk 6y ago
Are you referring to digital scans or what? My library card doesn’t allow me to access nytimes.com.
- UhDev 6y ago
  If your library offers access it will be through a portal, you won't use your library credentials to authenticate with NYT.
- RandallBrown 6y ago
  It might (depending on your library) https://www.lapl.org/new-york-times-digital https://www.lapl.org/new-york-times-digital
- JMTQp8lwXL 6y ago
  The databases are separate web applications. Your username (and password) is your library ID card number, generally. When inside this site, you can search for publications (e.g., NY Times), and then filter by publication date (e.g., today), and view all of today's articles. It isn't access to NYTimes.com, but it's the same article contents accessed in a different way. You may have used these databases in school to write research papers. Public libraries grant more or less the same access to similar/same databases, if you no longer are a member of an academic institution.
dredmorbius 6y ago
Few of the sources I find most useful (technical books, academic journals, historical magazine and newspaper articles) are available even with a library affiliation. LibGen and SciHub are vastly more convenient and comprehensive.
nitwit005 6y ago
It's a lot easier now that there are websites, and even mobile apps, tied to library systems. My local library system offers some impressive stuff like current and past newspapers, magazines, Associated Press videos, etc.

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Please get a library card if you wish to read quality (often paywalled) news sources for free. Your tax dollars (going to your city/county) are already paying f

by JMTQp8lwXL 6y ago

symlinkk 6y ago
Are you referring to digital scans or what? My library card doesn’t allow me to access nytimes.com.
- UhDev 6y ago
  If your library offers access it will be through a portal, you won't use your library credentials to authenticate with NYT.
- RandallBrown 6y ago
  It might (depending on your library) https://www.lapl.org/new-york-times-digital https://www.lapl.org/new-york-times-digital
- JMTQp8lwXL 6y ago
  The databases are separate web applications. Your username (and password) is your library ID card number, generally. When inside this site, you can search for publications (e.g., NY Times), and then filter by publication date (e.g., today), and view all of today's articles. It isn't access to NYTimes.com, but it's the same article contents accessed in a different way. You may have used these databases in school to write research papers. Public libraries grant more or less the same access to similar/same databases, if you no longer are a member of an academic institution.
dredmorbius 6y ago
Few of the sources I find most useful (technical books, academic journals, historical magazine and newspaper articles) are available even with a library affiliation. LibGen and SciHub are vastly more convenient and comprehensive.
nitwit005 6y ago
It's a lot easier now that there are websites, and even mobile apps, tied to library systems. My local library system offers some impressive stuff like current and past newspapers, magazines, Associated Press videos, etc.