Time.com Login Information

November 8, 2005 6:46 AM

I'm trying to access Time Magazine archives for some old articles. I went to BugMeNot.com to get some login information, but none of those accounts seem to work. The login at Time.com seems to require an e-mail address as login for the archive, so the BugMeNot ones don't fit. Anyone have access to a Time.com Login I can use?
posted by Like the Reef to Computers & Internet (10 answers total)

No.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 6:48 AM on November 8, 2005

Don't you have to pay for that?
posted by delmoi at 6:50 AM on November 8, 2005

BugMeNot doesn't have paid logins — or at least they're not supposed to.
posted by smackfu at 6:51 AM on November 8, 2005

Since it appears that the Time Magazine archives is paid access, Bugmenot would delete any logins posted (see "Are you going to bankrupt my paid content service?"). Also, in general AskMe isn't the best place to ask for things like this.
posted by skynxnex at 6:53 AM on November 8, 2005

If money is an issue, get thee to a library and utilize the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature and periodical archives. It's free, easy, and you'll feel like a character on CSI examining the microfiche. Or something.
posted by rentalkarma at 7:04 AM on November 8, 2005

A long while back I set myself up a hotmail account that I use just for this sort of situation. I give it as my address to sites like the one you've mentioned, and then once a month I go in and delete everything from its inbox.
posted by Sara Anne at 7:13 AM on November 8, 2005

There'd still be a payment, Sara Anne. The closest public or university library is the best way to go here, if Like the Reef doesn't want to pay for access to the Time archive.
posted by mediareport at 7:17 AM on November 8, 2005

All the Time-Warner properties seem to use a simple system to allow print subscribers access, which only requires access to the mailing label. It is not terribly difficult to get access to a mailing label for Time.
posted by smackfu at 7:24 AM on November 8, 2005

Your public or academic library may also have access to online databases that you can get to by entering your library card number. Expanded Academic Index, for example, has online access to Time magazine in full text going back to 1983. Another database General Reference Center Gold (could these names be more useless?) has an index going back to 1980 but full text only available from 1983, same as the other one.
posted by jessamyn at 7:38 AM on November 8, 2005

Use Lexis-Nexis Academic to get old articles from Time. BugMeNot has working logins to Lexis-Nexis Academic.
posted by evariste at 2:35 PM on November 8, 2005