Web sites for popular periodicals often provide recent articles free but charge for items more than a week old. UT Libraries pays for subscriptions to individual titles as well as for aggregators that offer collections of popular titles in many subject areas. New York Times articles are not available through most aggregators, but Wall Street Journal and Time are examples of periodicals available from ProQuest and DowJones. Costs include subscription fees and staff time to communicate with publishers, review licenses and pricing, organize access, and maintain URLs. No standard pricing approach has been established among publishers and vendors.
Some titles are available free as a supplement to a paid print subscription.
Others are provided for an additional fee to subscribers to the print version. Some are free for an initial period then require a fee based subscription. Many journals advertise that they have an electronic version available free to anyone who subscribes to the print version. Often these Web editions are available free to individual subscribers, but institutional subscribers like the UT Libraries must pay a subscription fee. The process to establish an institutional link to a journal can be complicated.