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    New York Times Digital + Audio App

    by Elisabet Ingibergsson June 13, 2023
    written by Elisabet Ingibergsson

    Digital access to the New York Times (NYT) just got an exciting new upgrade with the launch of the New York Times Audio App!

    New York Times Audio, gathers their full roster of audio journalism in one place, so listeners can cut through the noise and find the stories that matter to them. Listeners will find podcasts hosted by NYT reporters, dispatches from correspondents around the globe, and even cooking advice from recipe authors! NYT Audio will be an “audio front page,” bringing listeners inside the stories of the day.

    NYT digital access will continue to connect you with the current news cycle and access other great features:

    • The New York Times app for mobile devices
    • NYT Cooking app
    • The Daily 360 – two dimensional videos that provide 360° views (with mobile device or mouse)
    • Interactive media – graphics, charts, maps, polls, and more
    • Video library
    • Newsletters on a variety of topics
    • Article history and save options (across platforms)
    • New York Times inEducation (includes 16 discipline-specific areas of study, discussion prompts, learning outcomes, instructional strategies, and co-curricular activities)

    What is not included with our NY Times academic license:

    • E-reader editions
    • Times Insider
    • Premium Crosswords
    • New York Times Crossword app (app is free to download, but requires in-app purchase to access Premium Crosswords)

    To activate your access:

    • Register for nytimes.com using your UofA email address.
    • Register for nytimesineducation.com using your UofA email address.
    • Download your NYT mobile app from nytimes

    After registration you can enjoy access to NYTimes.com from any network or location. After one year you will need to renew your access.

    To renew your access:

    • Use this nytimesineducation.com renewal link
    • Follow the prompts that ask if you are on-campus or off-campus (while you are completing your renewal)
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    Click ‘here’ highlighted in blue on the renewal pageClick ‘Go’ on the renewal page
    Choose ‘already have a login’This will take you to our CCID sign-in page, sign in
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  • Digitization Spotlight: Our Voice

    by Guest Author May 23, 2023
    by Guest Author May 23, 2023

    Written by Logan Thienes, Digitization Assistant and first-year Digital Humanities student The newly-digitized Our Voice collection is a complement to the digital Alberta Street News collection, which was scanned by the U of A Library in 2022 (you can read about that project here!). Both are Edmonton street newspapers, created to serve and be sold by unhoused, disabled, and unemployed people living in Edmonton. Our Voice, originally titled Spare Change from 1994-1996,…

  • Discover Archives: Getting to Know Archival Descriptions

    by Guest Author April 11, 2023
    by Guest Author April 11, 2023

    This post was written by Digital Archivist, Maryna Chernyavska In previous posts, we introduced you to the University of Alberta Archives and some of the ways you can search our holdings, and shared some tips on how to search the Discover Archives database. Today, we would like you to get to know archival descriptions and how they help you discover archival materials. You might have noticed that Discover Archives database looks and…

  • Hidden Gems: Edmonton Queer History Collection

    by Emily Zheng March 14, 2023
    by Emily Zheng March 14, 2023

    The University of Alberta Library offers access to numerous resources that are core for certain disciplines, but also really deserving of wider attention. Here is one of those gems… The Edmonton Queer History Collection features 2SLGBTQ+ community magazines, newsletters, and items of historical significance in and around the Edmonton area.  The collection is an ongoing collaboration between the University of Alberta Library’s digitization services, MacEwan University Library, and the Edmonton Queer History…

  • Hidden Gems: The Wiedrick Collection

    by Erin Sanderman January 31, 2023
    by Erin Sanderman January 31, 2023

    The University of Alberta Library offers access to numerous resources that are core for certain disciplines, but also really deserving of wider attention. Here is one of those gems… Attention education researchers, students and those fascinated in the evolution of school curricula! Access to primary resources related to the first one hundred years of Alberta’s education history is easier than ever through the Wiedrick Collection, available through Internet Archive.  The Wiedrick Collection…

  • Digitizing vintage media – A tale of three films

    by Erin Sanderman January 24, 2023
    by Erin Sanderman January 24, 2023

    In early December 2022 the University of Alberta Archives and Alumni Relations Events team partnered with Metro Cinema to host a screening of three recently restored and digitized silent films from the Archives’ holdings: Le charme des fleurs, Le Remplaçant and The Honor of the Law. These films have also been uploaded to and made freely available to the public through our digital audiovisual repository Aviary.  The tale of these three films…

  • Canadian Copyright Update: Public Domain Frozen for Two Decades

    by Emily Zheng January 4, 2023
    by Emily Zheng January 4, 2023

    Co-written with Joana Mazumder, Digital Initiatives Assistant; and Amanda Wakaruk, Copyright & Scholarly Communications Librarian.  As you may have already read in The Quad, the term length of copyright-protected works in Canada is changing due to the Canada-United States Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), effective December 30, 2022. The federal government’s Budget Implementation Act of 2022 extended the general term of protection from 50 years after the year of death of a work’s creator…

  • From The Archives – Wintery Fun

    by Elisabet Ingibergsson December 21, 2022
    by Elisabet Ingibergsson December 21, 2022

    Our annual holiday break is just around the corner and many of us are making plans for the time off from studies and/or work!  In today’s blog post we take a look through our archives for a glimpse of the past times and life of long ago winters. Lets start with these students at our Law Library in the 1960’s. It certainly looks like they need a break!  I wonder what our…

  • De nos archives – Les plaisirs de l’hiver

    by Elisabet Ingibergsson December 21, 2022
    by Elisabet Ingibergsson December 21, 2022

    Les vacances d’hiver approchent à grands pas et vous êtes peut-être en train de faire des plans pour cette période de repos !  Aujourd’hui, nous jetons un coup d’œil à nos archives pour avoir un aperçu des passe-temps et de la vie des hivers d’autrefois. Commençons par ces étudiants à notre bibliothèque de droit dans les années 1960. On dirait bien qu’ils ont besoin d’une pause !  Je me demande ce que…

  • Digitizing SEE & VUE (part 3 of 3): Why is this project important?

    by Emily Zheng December 13, 2022
    by Emily Zheng December 13, 2022

    This is a 3-part series on the Digitization of SEE Magazine and VUE Weekly. In the first part, we gave you an overview of the project, and answer the “how.”  In the second part, we outlined a short history of the publications (the “what”).  Now, we’re closing out with the “why”, with a description of research possibilities and personal memories! Research Potential In print format, these magazines can be flimsy, brittle, and…

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