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News Sources

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Arts & Humanities Librarian

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Erin Sulla
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Welcome to Oxy Library's News guide! Use this guide to find news by time period (historical or current) or location (U.S. or international), along with resources for fact-checking. We also offer campus-wide access to the websites and apps of the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Washington Post.

Oxy Library Newspaper Subscriptions

The Occidental College Library offers campus-wide access to the websites and apps of the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Washington Post. Students, faculty, and staff can enjoy these newspapers anywhere and anytime from their device of choice.

The Atlantic: Follow these instructions to create your free account with The Atlantic.  It can be accessed both on and off campus! 

Los Angeles Times: Follow these instructions to create your free latimes.com account.  If you activated your account between July 2023 and June 2024, you will need to reactivate your account using those same instructions.

New York Times: We offer free campus-wide subscription access to the New York Times website and app, which includes live news, investigations, opinion, photos and video by journalists from more than 150 countries around the world.  To create a new account or to activate your current @oxy.edu in the new Group Subscription environment, please view the setup instructions.

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Access via our library catalog or go to their website and sign up for a free account using your Oxy email address.  Note: this is a journal, not a newspaper, but due to the timely content, it is included here.

The Economist: Please read these login instructions to get your Oxy access.

Washington Post: Full access on campus does not require you to sign in. Just go to the Washington Post's website and ignore all the requests to subscribe. However, if you would like to access the newspaper off-campus, you will need an account. Follow these instructions on how to set up a WaPo account.

Please contact us at library@oxy.edu if you have any questions.

Getting Started Using News Sources for Research

If you know the title of a particular newspaper or periodical you would like to search, you can use Oxy OneSearch.