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The New York Times is still free for the UC community!

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As many of us have already found out, The New York Times started charging frequent users for online access starting March 28th, 2011. (Non-subscribers are limited to 20 articles per month).

However, there is good news for those of us who love to start the day with browsing The New York Times online or checking on the news over lunch break.  The University of Cincinnati Libraries are continuing to provide access to The New York Times online content through the ProQuest database.  Select content from 1980 to present is also available through Factiva and Lexis-Nexis Academic.  Historical content, from January 1923 to five years ago, is available online via ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Fall: Literary Prize Season

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What do Sir Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway and Toni Morrison have in common? They were all winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature! This prize awarded by the Swedish Academy since 1901 is featured in the University of Cincinnati Libraries’ exhibit in the lobby of Langsam Library. The name of the 2010 winner, Mario Vargas Llosa, was just announced, and he is highlighted  in the exhibit along with other laureates, including the first one, the oldest and youngest laureate, and other representatives of this glorious cohort.  A selected bibliography of works by and about the Nobel Prize in Literature laureates held by the University of Cincinnati Libraries is available next to the display case. Continue reading →