<p>To view most articles on nytimes.com (The New York Times), economist.com (The Economist), sciam.com (Scientific American), etc., you need a subscription/account.</p>
<p>Do Vanderbilt students have automatic access to these and similar publications online? If so, how does that work? Since I have a VUnetID and password, can I use those to access these things from home? (I'm currently a high school senior who has enrolled at Vandy.)</p>
<p>This link <a href="http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news.html</a> will get you started. The Hustler (newspaper) is online and can be downloaded. The InsideVandy link (<a href="http://www.insidevandy.com/drupal%5B/url%5D">http://www.insidevandy.com/drupal</a>) is another good place to start.</p>
<p>PS Just FYI, the NYT is now available free (even TimesSelect articles) with a college e-mail address!</p>
<p>tphssenior: Unless I'm missing something, those links aren't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about access to major non-Vandy publications, like the NYT or the Washington Post, etc.</p>
<p>npl915: Thanks, I didn't know that. That's pretty cool.</p>
<p>I think I know what you're getting at.</p>
<p>If you go to <a href="http://www.vanderbilt.edu%5B/url%5D">www.vanderbilt.edu</a>, on the left hand side in the middle there is a link to "Libraries." If you click the link, it'll bring you to a page that has 4 boxes on it. The box in the top, upper-right corner is titled "Find Articles and Databases." If you click on that, it'll bring you to a new page where you can search by topic/major on the left side, or by publication on the right side. I checked, and they offer both The New York Times and The Economist...I didn't check the others but I'm sure they'd have them. If you need help from that point finding something (it's a lengthy process of wading through a lot of pages) PM me!</p>
<p>Also, at the top of the page they offer "Top Databases" including LexisNexis which is ridiculously helpful when doing research papers.</p>
<p>Hope that helps, lol and I'm not even a Vandy student yet! I guess OU taught me one thing, and that's how to decipher library pages, haha. Good luck!
Mal :)</p>
<p>TransferMal: Sorry, I hate to be so picky, but even that isn't exactly what I'm looking for, although it's close, and should be useful regardless. If I'm researching the Iran contra affair, for example, it looks like I can use that database and find, say, 1980s Washington Post articles on the subject. But that's not what I want to do. I would like to simply read the news --- to read, for example, today's issue of the Washington Post. That database does not have it (it looks like all the journal / newspaper articles are at least a few years old, and you can't read an entire given issue of a given paper, but rather you have to search by subject to find specific articles one at a time).</p>
<p>Of course, reading the news isn't exactly a challenge. The challenge is finding a way to read (online) almost any newspaper I'd like to for free, since I'm a cheap guy --- and I was hoping Vanderbilt provides its students a way to do this. ;) (I could have sworn most college students have this privilege.)</p>
<p>again, (although hopefully you know this), the Post is free as well online.
I know that you can get reduced subscription rates to the economist, etc with a college e-mail address, and i know at my current school, we get the print edition of NYT, the economist, Chron of Higher Ed, USA Today, etc., so maybe vandy does as well but i can't tell you exactly how</p>