The Times has just announced that college students (or, for that matter, anyone with an .edu e-mail suffix) can have free access to the entire contents of the newspaper’s website, including the previously gated TimesSelect material. This strikes me as a huge move, and one that will reverberate throughout every discussion of the new business model/s for journalism. [Addendum: As noted by various commenters below, some non-.edu suffixes from non-U.S. universities may also work; but alumni .edu addresses may not.]
If You Are a Student, You Can Stop Complaining That It Costs $ to Read the N.Y. Times Online
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The effort would have been worthwhile if any of the Canadian universities have email suffix’s with .edu. Luckily, it is provided for some universities anyways via the library network.
I am curious, which universities in the US offer email suffixs of .edu because I have not encountered any yet.
The effort would have been worthwhile if any of the Canadian universities have email suffix’s with .edu. Luckily, it is provided for some universities anyways via the library network.
I am curious, which universities in the US offer email suffixs of .edu because I have not encountered any yet.
That’s a little unfair, i’m an economics undergrad in europe (ireland more specifically) and I can’t think of a single college with a .edu suffix on their e-mail addresses. For that matter I can’t think of a single web address with .edu at the end of it. Maybe it’s only in America?
That’s a little unfair, i’m an economics undergrad in europe (ireland more specifically) and I can’t think of a single college with a .edu suffix on their e-mail addresses. For that matter I can’t think of a single web address with .edu at the end of it. Maybe it’s only in America?
Using the .edu suffix doesn’t benefit students in coutries where it isn’t used (eg in the UK universities use .ac.uk) but does give free access to everyone who has an alumni e-mail address ending in .edu. I don’t object to getting free access even once I’m an alumna rather than a student, but this criteria does seem to defeat the purpose of the idea.
Using the .edu suffix doesn’t benefit students in coutries where it isn’t used (eg in the UK universities use .ac.uk) but does give free access to everyone who has an alumni e-mail address ending in .edu. I don’t object to getting free access even once I’m an alumna rather than a student, but this criteria does seem to defeat the purpose of the idea.
I’m not sure who bunnyblaster has been corresponding with, but just about every public and private university in the US has a .edu suffix on their websites and e-mails. It hadn’t occurred to me that other countries don’t work that way. I’m not entirely sure why country code suffixes take precedence in every other country beside the U.S. I think that’s mostly a historical artifact of past (and continuing) U.S. control of domain naming.
I don’t necessarily see a problem with this since the New York Times is a U.S. newspaper with their primary readership in the U.S. It’s a little annoying for students at non-U.S. colleges, but I guess they don’t have to offer access to anyone for free.
I’m not sure who bunnyblaster has been corresponding with, but just about every public and private university in the US has a .edu suffix on their websites and e-mails. It hadn’t occurred to me that other countries don’t work that way. I’m not entirely sure why country code suffixes take precedence in every other country beside the U.S. I think that’s mostly a historical artifact of past (and continuing) U.S. control of domain naming.
I don’t necessarily see a problem with this since the New York Times is a U.S. newspaper with their primary readership in the U.S. It’s a little annoying for students at non-U.S. colleges, but I guess they don’t have to offer access to anyone for free.