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Subject The most complete guide to alternative & radical media plus a guide to publishers' addresses. The Alternative Press Index is widely regarded as the leading guide to the alternative press in North America. Subjects covered include African-American Studies, social theory, ethnic & racial studies, socialism, feminism, alternative organizations, gay/lesbian studies, anarchism, community organizing, prisons, ecology, indigenous people's rights, labor studies, and internationalism.
Sources Citations are drawn from roughly 380 alternative, radical, and left publications, which report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change. API indexes all articles of 5 or more paragraphs, including:: editorials, regular columns, essays, fiction; speeches, interviews, statistics, reprints; bibliographies, directories, resource lists; autobiographies, biographies, obituaries, memoirs; and reviews: book, film, record, TV, drama, arts, and multimedia.
Dates Covered 1969 to the present.
Journals Covered Alternative Press Center's Online Directory
Provider OCLC (database vendor)
Alternative Press Center (database provider)
Access Access is limited to computers with the Bates IP address.


Page author: Ladd Web Group
Date: 1/9/03


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