Find Articles: Alternative Media
| (R) = Restricted to authorized MTA University users (FT) = Includes or links to Full Text articles |
| * Alt-PressWatch (ProQuest) (FT) (R) | |
| Description: | Full-text access to over 210 publications of the alternative and independent presses. Good source for book reviews. |
| Years indexed: | 1970 to present. Varies by title. |
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| Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) (ProQuest) (FT) (R) | |
| Description: | CBCA Complete is Canada's largest database of articles and other publications from a broad range of Canadian sources. Covers current events, business, science, the arts, and academic information on a wide range of topics, produced in Canada. Includes over 500 periodicals and daily news sources (over 480 of which are Canadian), plus indexing to an additional 1,100 other titles (over 95% Canadian). |
| Years indexed: | 1971 - present (full-text 1985 - present). Varies by title. |
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| LexisNexis Academic (FT) (R) | |
| Description: | Includes U.S., Canadian and international news, magazines and journals, business, medical, and legal information, polls and surveys, country profiles, biographical information and more. |
| Years indexed: | Varies by Title |
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| Research Library (ProQuest) (FT) (R) | |
| Description: | Broad coverage of a wide range of subject areas, including arts, business, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. Includes scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers. |
| Years indexed: | 1971 - present. Varies by title. |
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* Please note:
AltPress Watch is the only journal index available at Mount Allison that is entirely devoted to alternative press publications.
Databases that cover, at least in part, publications of the alternative press are also listed above (note that these databases contain mostly academic and/or mainstream titles but do include a few alternative press titles).
Other Indexes (not available at Mount Allison)
- Alternative Press Index
API was launched in 1960 "to provide access to the practices and theories of radical social change." It is published biannually in April and October. More about API. (not available at the MTA Libraries). - Left Index
Indexes "literature of the left, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia." More about the Left Index. (not available at the MTA Libraries). - Communication Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts media and communication-related publications worldwide, including journals, books and papers. More about Communication Abstracts. (not available at the MTA Libraries).
- see Bibliographic and Web Tools for Alternative Media, compiled by Byron Anderson, for a list of additional resources: http://libr.org/amtf/bibtools.cp.doc
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