Access to a site license subscription to The Chronicle of Higher Education through the Samuel C. Williams Library is now available, Stevens has announced. The Chronicle of Higher Education is a Washington D.C. newspaper that focuses on university faculty and student affairs, and it is also known for posting college job listings. The change makes The Chronicle, including its articles, statistics, and newsletters, with the exception of the Daily Briefing newsletter, available to all enrolled students as well as employed faculty and staff.
The site license provides unlimited access to The Chronicle’s website, including the viewing of limitless articles and essays, as well as special issues, such as The Almanac of Higher Education and The Trends Report. By accessing The Chronicle through the Library’s database page, these services will be available to Stevens community members without the need for an account or a membership. Users who are not on campus, however, will need to sign up for an account using their Stevens emails on the newspaper’s website.
The Chronicle normally requires an account, which is free to be created, to read articles and receive newsletters. According to its website, The Chronicle then limits access to paid subscriptions based on a variety of factors, including “who you are, how you read us, and what you’ve read in the past.”
In an email interview with The Stute, Library Director Linda Beninghove expressed excitement over the new offering, calling The Chronicle “the leader in higher education journalism” for “real-time, reliable news, data, information, and research.” The Library decided to acquire the site license after noticing a large number of individual subscriptions to the newspaper at Stevens, believing that the move would provide a cost-effective way to improve access for the entire Stevens community. Beninghove described the benefits of the subscription as wide-ranging, and said that The Chronicle “helps keep students, faculty, and staff up-to-date and well-versed in the world of academia and the future of higher education.”
The news follows the Library’s acquisition of subscriptions to two prominent physics journals published by the American Physical Society—Physical Review A (PRA) and Physical Review Letters. PRA covers important developments in the fields of atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum information, and Letters, the American Physical Society’s flagship journal, publishes research by prominent physicists in all disciplines, according to their respective websites.
Students, teachers, and staff who already have a free or paid membership to The Chronicle of Higher Education can sync their accounts with Stevens emails via the newspaper’s website. Additionally, individual paid subscriptions can be canceled and partially refunded by emailing subscriptions@chronicleservice.com. The Library’s website adds that “individual subscribers should reach out to their departments/offices on what’s the best fit for their information needs.”
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