• Go to the library home page at http://www.scu.edu/library/
• Click on the "Electronic Database" A-Z and select "New York Times Archive".

To begin your search:

• In basic searching mode, just enter your keywords and enter a date range.
• In advanced search mode, you can also limit your search by author, article title, or article type.
• To browse a particular issue of the newspaper, click on Publications Search, enter New York Times in the box, and choose the issue you are interested in.

To print an article:
Printing is a little tricky in this database. The full text/image of the article is viewed with Adobe Acrobat reader. The image size of the articles varies.

• If the document is larger than your paper size, select Graphics Select Tool (third icon to the right of the hand tool) then click and drag to select a smaller protion of the page. Click the Print button (the Adobe print button, not the browser one).
• If you need to enlarge a small article, click the print button. Select Expand small pages to paper size on the Print dialog bow. The article will expand to fit the selected paper size.

To look for the full text of recent New York Times articles:

The New York Times Archives' coverage is from 1851 to 2000. To access the more recent full text articles of the newspaper, you will need to use another database such as LexisNexis Academic. The best way to find recent New York Times articles on a particular topic is to use the database National Newspaper Index first to obtain a list of article citations. Then you can use the LexisNexis Academic database and search for the full text of the articles by title.

The library also has a microfilm subscription to the New York Times (located in the Periodicals room on the second floor of the library, call number AN3.N38). In very rare cases, the full text of an article will not be available in the New York Times Archives database. Your only option then will be to look up the article on microfilm.