News & Newspaper Sources: Financial Times Online Access

An online subscription to the British global business and news daily paper the Financial Times is available to all UCSB students, faculty, and staff, thanks to funding from the UCSB Library.

To create your account, visit ft.com/ucsb, search and select University of California, Santa Barbara. Click on "set up my account," follow the instructions, and remember to use your campus email address. After registering, log in via ft.com from anywhere and use the same credentials across multiple devices, including the app.

As you get started with your FT account, explore all the cool resources available through the Financial Times, including:

For market data analysis:

• Equities screener tool: Search or browse companies based on country, sector, and other equity characteristics
• Portfolio tool: See how trades would have performed from years past or start from the present
• World markets tool: View the performance of global markets and browse news items by region
• Funds overview: View funds that move the market, screen for funds and read relevant news
• and more

For teaching and learning:

• The online digital newspaper can be translated into 25 languages
• Videos: Intro to FT.com videos, including how to search and how to create reading lists
• Case Studies, Professors’ Picks, Business Education News, and Business and Economics Guides
• Highlight article text to save for later use. Find your highlighted articles in myFT
• The annual Responsible Business Education report and awards

For career development:

• Working It newsletter, about succeeding in the modern workplace
• MBA 101, a 6-part newsletter guide to applying to business school
• The annual Women at the Start report (helpful for anyone starting their career!)

Additional content:

• FT Newsletters, such as FirstFT, Moral Money (on ESG), or Chris Giles on Central Banks
• Podcasts, such as the FT News Briefing, Behind the Money, and Unhedged (on markets)
• The Lunch with the FT column, FT Book Reviews (all genres), and the FT Climate Graphic Explained

If you're logged into your Financial Times account, you can catch the latest news here!

The Financial Times Copyright Policy governs your terms of use, i.e., how you can use and share content. Highlights:

• Access is for current students, faculty and staff of UC Santa Barbara. You may not share your account with anyone else.

• You must use your @ucsb.edu email address to register.

• You may only share content as permitted by the tools embedded in the FT.com site

  • No article full-texts may be uploaded to, or posted in, Canvas.

  • FT.com resources are intended for your personal, educational use. Commercial use is not permitted.

  • Interactive chart data is for individual, online use for subscribed users only.

• Tips for Canvas and/or working in teams:

  • You may post a Financial Times link in Canvas, but not the full-text content. Using the link means everyone signs in to read with their own FT.com account.

    • To get the link, use the article's Share button and select the "FT Subscribers Only" link (preferred), or use the link in the address bar

    • The content may differ slightly between FT.com and e-paper edition of the same article

• FT content should not be taken as a recommendation, endorsement, or advice, and should not be relied upon for making decisions for purchasing, investments, sales, etc.

NOTE: The UCSB Library reserves the right to deactivate user accounts if they do not comply with copyright terms.