The Alternative Press Center [APC] is a non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the alternative press. Founded in 1969, it remains one of the oldest self-sustaining alternative media institutions in the United States. For more than a quarter of a century, the Alternative Press Index has been recognized as a leading guide to the alternative press in the United States and around the world.



Alternative Press Center`s Online Directory

The information in this directory is taken from Annotations -- a guide to the independent critical press, published by the Alternative Press Center.



Alternative Press Index

The Alternative Press Index is a quarterly subject index to over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Librarians consider the API to be the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to alternative sources of information available today. Each article is listed and cross-referenced by subject. Every citation contains the title, author and information about the publication in which it is located.



The Alternative Press Index [API] was born with the New Left of the 1960`s. It was launched in 1969 to provide access to the practices and theories of radical social change. The Index is international and interdisciplinary, spanning the social sciences and humanities, with its central focus on the practice and theory of socialism, national liberation, labor, indigenous peoples, gays/lesbians, feminism, ecology, democracy, and anarchism. It strives to be as comprehensive as possible.

Since it was established, the Alternative Press Index has provided access to the works of many journalists, theorists and writers, including the following:



Margaret Atwood ? Peter Beilharz ? Seyla Benhabib ? Joel Bleifuss ? Robin Blackburn ? Murray Bookchin ? Jeremy Brecher ? Cornelius Castoriadis ? Phyllis Chesler ? Noam Chomsky ? Ward Churchill ? Alexander Cockburn ? Drucilla Cornell ? John D`Emilio ? Barbara Ehrenreich ? Nancy Fraser ? Stuart Hill ? Nancy Hartsock ? David Harvey ? Agnes Heller ? Edward Herman ? Christopher Hitchens ? bell hooks ? Diana Johnstone ? June Jordan ? Manning Marable ? David Moberg ? Kim Moody ? Salim Muwakkil ? James O`Connor ? Leo Panitch ? Carole Pateman ? Katha Pollitt ? Elaine Rapping ? Daniel Singer ? Urvashi Vaid



The Alternative Press Index is published quarterly in June, September, December and May, with the May issue being a cumulation for the year. Quarterly issues are approximately 160 pages in length, the cumulative edition approximately 650 pages. Each issue contains complete subscription information for the publications indexed. Each annual edition contains a selection of abstracts from 50 research journals.