Getting Started:

As a faculty or staff member at HWRHS or MRMS, you have digital access to The New York Times! Get started by following these easy steps:

1. Visit nytimes.com/passes to activate your New York Times digital pass. 

2. On nytimes.com/passes, click on "Create Account" and log-in via Google, using your @hwschools.net email address. ​​​​If you already have a NYTimes.com account associated with your school email address, log in with those credentials. Licenses are only available for @hwschools.net accounts. See the next page about using articles with students.

While we are not able to provide individual passes for students at this time, teachers can use the "gift article" feature to provide access to specific articles to students. You have the ability to "gift" up to 10 articles each calendar month. Click this link to learn more about this feature. 

3. Validate your email address. Check your email inbox for a confirmation message from The New York Times. Click on the link in your confirmation message to validate your email address and claim your New York Times Digital Pass. Note:​ ​​If the confirmation email didn’t arrive, check your spam folder. If it isn’t there, send an email from your school email address to edu@nytimes.com with subject line: “Academic Pass - no verification email.”

4. Success! You have successfully claimed a Digital Pass when you see the "Start Your Access" screen. 

What NYTimes is good for:

World News | Current Events | Opinion and Editorial Articles | Word Games!

There are two ways students and staff can access articles from The Boston Globe

1. Database Access: You can access The Boston Globe in text-only database format at this link. This database includes current articles as well as archive articles through 1980. 

2. Digital Access through the BPL: With a BPL ecard, you can access the current digital edition of The Boston Globe. Access is provided 72-hours at a time, but you can register for the three-day access as many times as you'd like. 

To access The Boston Globe through the BPL, follow this link, click on "The Boston Globe (current edition)" and complete the temporary account registration.

What The Boston Globe is good for:

Local News | Current Events | Opinion and Editorial Articles 

Access:

The Library has a subscription to Newsela for students and staff. Staff should go to Newsela.com and sign up for an account using their school Google accounts to get started. 

You can sync your Google Classrooms with Newsela and assign articles directly to students. Newsela provides 5 different lexile levels for all of the articles they offer and staff have the ability to embed understanding checks, polls, and other assignment features directly into the articles for students to work through. 

What Newsela is good for:

Assigning Interactive Articles | Variable Reading Levels | Text Sets | Current Events

**This option requires a Boston Public Library ecard**

How to access:

Follow this link to the BPL website and click on Pressreader. You will need a BPL ecard to access content on this site. 

Pressreader provides full image access to current newspapers and magazines from around the world. You have options to search by country, language,  and category. 

What Pressreader is good for:

World News | Current Events | World Languages | Journalism

**This option requires a Boston Public Library ecard**

How to access:

With a BPL ecard, you can access the current digital edition of The Wall Street Journal. Access is provided 72-hours at a time, but you can register for the three-day access as many times as you'd like. 

To access The Wall Street Journal through the BPL, follow this link, click on "The Wall Street Journal (current edition)" and complete the temporary account registration.

What The Wall Street Journal is good for:

National News | Current Events | Opinion and Editorial Articles | Business News