Alternative Press Index

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Description

Bibliographic coverage, with some full text, of more than 300 international journals, magazines, and newspapers offering an alternative, radical, or left perspective. Explicitly designed as a counterweight to what are seen as mainstream or conservative publications.

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Dates covered

1991+

Updating frequency

Quarterly.

Sources

More than 300 alternative journals, magazines, and newspapers, including titles like Historical Materialism, The Nation, Science & Society, Monthly Review, New Left Review, Socialism and Democracy, International Socialist Review and Green Left Weekly. Both popular and more scholarly publications are included.

Type of coverage

Indexing with full-text or full-image content for some titles.

Print counterpart or
related resources

For print holdings, see the QuickSearch record for Alternative Press Index.

Producer/content provider

Alternative Press Center

Vendor/electronic presentation provider

EBSCO