Popular Resources

Explore some of the Libraries’ most popular resources and search tools. For a full selection of books, journals, articles, databases, and other resources search our library catalog.

Access to some resources may require an NYU Login.

Digital Subscriptions to Major News Outlets

NYU Libraries provides NYU students, faculty, and staff with complimentary online access to major news outlets, including digital subscriptions.

New York Times

Digital subscriptions to the New York Times are available to NYU students, faculty, and staff, free of charge.

New Subscribers: Activate your New York Times subscription
Existing Subscribers: You will need to cancel your personal subscription to take advantage of the free one. New York Times’ instructions for existing paid subscriber to redeem the complimentary NYTimes.com subscription for details on how to do this.

PressReader

Access to more than 7,000 of the world’s top newspapers and magazines is available to NYU students, faculty, and staff through PressReader, a digital platform provides full-content, digital replicas of current publications including The Guardian, Newsweek, Daily Mail, Der Tagesspiegel, Libération, China Daily, La Razon, and more.

To access activate your PressReader account:
1. Go to www.pressreader.com
2. Click the “Sign In” button
3. Select “Library or Group”
4. Search for “New York University”
5. Click “Sign In” to authenticate through the NYU’s SSO login
Note: If you’re on NYU’s Wi-Fi network you may not need to go through the sign in process.

Wall Street Journal

Digital subscriptions to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) are available to NYU students, faculty, and staff, free of charge.

New Subscribers: Activate your Wall Street Journal subscription
Existing Subscribers: If you are already a Wall Street Journal subscriber, you need to reactivate your subscription to take advantage of the free one. Here’s how:
1. Call 1-800-JOURNAL to cancel your personal subscription.
2. Go to WSJ.com/NYU to activate your free Wall Street Journal university account.
3. Select your “Account type” as either “Student” (enter your graduation date) or “Professor/Staff.”
4. Input your email and create a password, then click “Create.”
5. A confirmation page will confirm that your academic WSJ account has been activated. Click on “Okay, Let’s Go” to customize your experience.

If you have any questions, please contact academicsupport@dowjones.com or call 1-800-JOURNAL.

Popular Databases and Resources

Full access to some resources may require an NYU Login.

Credo Reference

A collection of dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographical sources, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, and measurement conversions covering topics from the arts to the sciences.

EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS)

Encompasses the content of 400 databases and publishers.

The Economist

Covers international politics, news, finance, business, technology, and science.

Kanopy Streaming

This database provides access to streaming movies, documentaries, independent and international films, educational films, and instructional videos. Content distributors include The Criterion Collection, The Great Courses, Kino Lorber, PBS, and many independent filmmakers.

ProQuest Central

A multidisciplinary database with over 11,000 titles, 8,000 of which are full-text.

PsycInfo

Covers professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, pharmacology, physiology, and linguistics.

PubMed

Comprises over 26,000,000 citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

Statista

Statista aggregates data on markets, industry, politics, economics, and population. Users can export datasets in a variety of formats. Sources include trade publications, market and opinion research institutions, government sources, business and economic databases, reference publications, media sources, and scholarly articles. Includes Statista’s “Global Consumer Survey”, which helps marketers understand consumer behavior and brand interaction.

Wall Street Journal (available from 1979)

Wall Street Journal articles from 1979 onward covering US and international news.

Popular Research Tools