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Description: Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines. Provides in-depth coverage in the humanities and social sciences, including topics related to anarchism, democracy, ecology, feminism, gay and lesbian issues, indigenous peoples, labor, national liberation, and socialism.

Subjects: General

Coverage: 1991-present

Provider: OCLC FirstSearch

Also known as: AltPressIndex OCLC logo

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For retrospective coverage back to 1969, please consult the printed volumes of Alternative Press Index in the St. Paul Campus Library.