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Alternative Press Index |
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Subject Content |
Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political &
social change. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary.
Provides in-depth coverage in the humanities and social science areas.
Includes anarchism, democracy, ecology, feminism, gay and lesbian
issues, indigenous peoples, labor, national liberation, and socialism –
theory and practice. |
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Date Coverage |
1991 to present
Updated Quarterly (every 3 months) |
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Type of Material Covered |
Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left
periodicals, newspapers and magazines and includes selected abstracts
from research journals. |
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Full-text |
There is
no full text availability within this database. Indexing and selected
abstracts only. Some articles can be reached through outside sources
where publications and vendors allow free access to their material or
the Library purchases a subscription to the journal. Generally there
will be a link that states
 See
more details for locating this item . Click on this link for
assistance in finding the full text article. |
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Refereed Journal Filter |
There is
no refereed journal filter in the OCLC databases. |
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Remote Access |
Only for
Boise State University students, faculty and staff; use BroncoWeb login
and password. |
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Help Pages |
Click on
the information icon
next to the database title in the Search in database: field.
In the upper left corner is Help, click on the Contents of Help link. |
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Boolean |
And, Or, Not, ( ); can be used within
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Truncation Symbol
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Automatically stems in Basic, Advanced
and Expert keyword searches. Does not in other type searches. Use +
for plurals; * for truncation; # for wildcard character; ?N for up to a
set amount of characters. |
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Other Search Options |
Adjacent terms (proximity) - X w Y (X is
followed by Y); X wN Y (X is followed by Y with at most N
terms between); X n Y (X is next to Y, either order); X nN Y (X
is within N terms of Y, either order) |
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a username and password and provide an email address. Once registered,
you can save your current searches and return to them at a future date. |
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Special Notes |
Index can be searched along
with other OCLC FirstSearch databases by clicking on the Databases tab
at the top of the screen and placing a checkmark by those databases you
wish to include in your search. |
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List of Journals |
All titles for AltPressIndex
Currently 536 titles are indexed. |
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Related Indexes |
Look under
Interdisciplinary, Popular Culture,
Public Administration, Social Science and Theatre Arts on the Article
Indexes by Subject link.
http://library.boisestate.edu/reference/subjectindexes/
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