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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. |
| Date Coverage | 1991 to present Updated Quarterly (every 3 months) |
| Type of Material Covered | Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines and includes selected abstracts from research journals. |
| 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. |
| Refereed Journal Filter | There is no refereed journal filter in the OCLC databases. |
| Remote Access | Available to Boise State University students, staff, and faculty after entering BroncoWeb userid and password |
| 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. |
| Boolean | And, Or, Not, ( ); can be used within the search fields. |
| Truncation Symbol | 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. |
| 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). |
| Alerts | As a user of the FirstSearch service, you can register within FirstSearch for a personal account. To register, you must create 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. |
| 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. |
| List of Journals | All titles for AltPressIndex Currently 536 titles are indexed. |
| 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/. |
| Reference Assistance | Phone, email, chat, and in-person reference services are available; link to http://library.boisestate.edu/reference.shtm for further information. SD 07/16/07 |
