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New York Times Index

New York Times Index is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand New York Times Index rather than just read about it. In short: The New York Times Index is a printed reference work published since 1913 by The New York Times newspaper. It is intended to serve as a reference for accessing stories printed the previous year in the newspaper.

Key takeaways

New York Times Index belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect New York Times Index to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of New York Times Index from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The New York Times Index is a printed reference work published since 1913 by The New York Times newspaper. It is intended to serve as a reference for accessing stories printed the previous year in the newspaper. It was created by publisher Adolph Simon Ochs, who wanted to compete with the New York Sun by offering a series of special features. The index, he believed, would be attractive to librarians and other researchers by making reliable source material widely available to the public. The index was the only one published by an American newspaper through at least the 1930s, and helped make the Times known to libraries and students nationwide as a primary source for research. Initially published quarterly, it was released in annual editions starting in 1930. In recent years, volumes of the index have been designated to cover specific months or weeks. After the success of the index was well established, the Times began publishing the New York Times Obituaries Index. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Times began releasing indexes from before 1913 that had been produced for internal use. This required compiling indexes for the first time for periods 1858-62 and 1906-12 when indexing had halted "for reasons that cannot now be determined," according to the foreword of those volumes. In 2009, the Times began releasing metadata associated with the index to programmers and the general public.

References "Annual Times index available to public", The New York Times. April 13, 1936. p. 13. Jones, Alex S. and Tifft, Susan E. "Dusting Off the Search Engine", The New York Times. November 17, 2001. Retrieved April 13, 2011. "Linked Open Data" Archived July 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times. Retrieved April 13, 2011.

Further reading Blazek, Ron and Perrault, Anna. United States History: A Selective Guide to Information Sources, Libraries Unlimited, 2003. (Second Edition) ISBN 1-56308-874-6 Morse, Grant W. Guide to the Incomparable New York Times Index, New York: Fleet Academic Editions, 1980. ISBN 0-8303-0159-3

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with New York Times Index

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what New York Times Index claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to New York Times Index before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about New York Times Index ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of New York Times Index

In research: New York Times Index appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses New York Times Index in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: New York Times Index is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1913 establishments in New York City, Bibliographic databases and indexes, Publications established in 1913, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for New York Times Index outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study New York Times Index in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what New York Times Index means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
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Frequently asked questions

What is New York Times Index in simple terms?

Why does New York Times Index matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study New York Times Index?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on New York Times Index.