The University will not offer TimesSelect, a new service from The New York Times that charges $49.95 per year for exclusive online access to certain columns, to students free of charge.
TimesSelect includes columns in the oped, business, New York/region and sports sections, as well as the International Herald Tribune.
Though NYTimes.com will remain accessible free of charge for home-delivery subscribers, Princeton students who currently have the newspaper delivered to their dorm rooms will be required to pay for complete access to archives and work by columnists such as economics professor Paul Krugman.
Though Firestone Library offers hard copies of The New York Times, computers at Firestone will also have only limited access to the site.
"Widely read newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and The Economist do not provide institutional Web subscriptions," said Economics and Finance Librarian Bobray Bordelon.
However, all articles, oped pieces and archival articles dating back to 1980 are still available through Lexis-Nexis Academic.
Also, the majority of NYTimes.com, including all news, features, editorials, analysis and multimedia, will continue to be available to readers of the Web site. Single archival articles dating back to 1981 are accessible for $3.95. According to its website, The New York Times has no plans to restrict the entire site to paid subscribers only.
Nevertheless, Firestone Library has already contacted the newspaper to determine if institutional access rates might be established for the Princeton campus, said Kevin Barry, head of the Social Science Reference Center.
"It is our intention to lobby hard for an educational institution arrangement," he said. "I expect that our concern over how TimesSelect restrictions have upset daily patterns of reading key features and opinion pieces is shared by most academic libraries. I hope that those of us who represent the library and its community can prevail successfully upon The New York Times to find a way of opening up the website fully to institutional subscribers."
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