New York TimesSelect available to students and faculty in Canada too

Mar 19, 2007

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I was mildly cheesed when I read the announcements last week that the NY TimesSelect service was going be offered for free to students and faculty with a .edu email address, ’cause here in Canada we don’t have that domain. But then I thought I’d check and see so at least I’d have proof when I whined to the Times, so I went through the registration and was pleased to see that there’s an option to choose “Outside the US”, and that it worked. So I’m signed up, and we’ll see if I become more worldly and if I use the NYT more often. Wonder what their business model is…

You can read about what TimesSelect is here. Costs $49.95 US for mere mortals.

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2 Responses to “New York TimesSelect available to students and faculty in Canada too”

The Distant Librarian

April 3, 2007

New York TimesSelect – Do Over! (may not be free for YOU!)
Marie-Eve Dugas

April 18, 2007

Apparently, it doesn’t work for all Canadian universities… None of Québec universities would register but McGill. So I whined. Here’s what NYT had to say :

“We appreciate your interest in TimesSelect University. Unfortunately, at this time we are unable
to offer the free subscription to you based on the e-mail address you provided.
We are working toward being able to expand this offering to include additional addresses for
Universities and Colleges that are not currently in our system. If you wish, we can let you know
when we have been able to add more schools to our system. However, this process is taking
longer than we had hoped and we cannot offer a time estimate currently.”

Well…
Cheers,
Marie-Eve