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Alternative Press Index Archive
Alternative Press Index Archive is a database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 700 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals covering the period of 1969 through 1990. Includes theories and practices of socialism and revolution alongside ecology, democracy and anarchism, feminism and organized labor, indigenous peoples, and gays/lesbians.
Alternative Press Index
Alternative Press Index is a database of more than 368,000 journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Coverage, beginning in 1991, is both international and interdisciplinary.
Academic Search Premier
An all-purpose academic database that is a good starting point for many topics.

Covers 1975 to the present.
JSTOR
An archive of scholarly full-text journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

The JSTOR archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s. Subject areas include the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

JSTOR includes various collections, and the St. Kate's Library has purchased the Arts and Sciences Collections I-VII and the Biological Sciences Collection. These collections include subsets for ecology & botany, language & literature, and music.

JSTOR's agreements with publishers often include a "moving wall," which means that the most recent years (typically 3-5 years) are not available.
SocINDEX with Full Text
A comprehensive social sciences research database with strong coverage of sociology, anthropology, education, and social work

A comprehensive social sciences research database with full text for more than 1,700 journals dating back to 1908. It also provides full text for more than 830 books and 14,000 conference papers. Subject indexing is based on a sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Articles from scholarly journals in communication, mass media, and related fields.

This database offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 440 journals in communication and mass media, selective coverage of nearly 200 additional journals, and full text for more than 500 journals. Many of the more important journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable cited references from their first issues (dating as far back as 1915) to the present.

Special features include a Communication Thesaurus, searchable cited references for peer-reviewed journals, and profiles providing biographical and bibliographical data for of more than 3,000 authors in the field.

The database incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study.

Primary Source Collections

A select list of archives & digital collections related to activist movements. Don't see your topic on the list? Looking for more primary sources? Try this search:

[topic/person/organization] (archives OR "digital collections" OR "primary sources")

American Radicalism Collection, Michigan State University Libraries
Contains materials on political, social, and economic issues produced by left and right radical groups.
Feminist Research Center
Provides links to the National Women's History Project, women's history collections, and the Feminist Chronicles, a history of the U.S. women's movement from 1953 to 1993. The Feminist Majority Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence, sponsors the page.
University of Minnesota Social Welfare History Archives
Books, articles, pamphlets and more related to social services & social reform movements in the 19th & 20th century.
The Tretter Collection
Contains "over 3,000 linear feet of material about the GLBT experience. It includes published material, organizational records, personal manuscripts, informational files, films, music, textiles, posters, and other items."
Activism in the U.S. - Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
An exhibit of primary resource material related to civil rights, anti-war, education, women's, & LBGT activism
Civil Rights Digital Library
"The Civil Rights Digital Library promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale." (from the website)
Farmworker Movement Documentation Project
Primary source accounts: photographs, oral histories, videos, essays and historical documents from the United Farm Worker Delano Grape Strikers and the UFW Volunteers who worked with Cesar Chavez to build his farmworker movement. Published by the San Diego Library.
ACT-UP Oral History Project
The Lesbian Herstory Archives
Largest collection of materials about lesbians and their history and communities. Located in Brooklyn, but website has digital collections.
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Women's Liberation Movement Print Culture Collection
Japanese-American Internment Camp Newspapers, 1942 to 1946
Digital Feminist Archives - Barnard Center for Research on Women

Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000
An online archive of primary sources related to women's activism in the U.S.

This resource brings together primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting the multiplicity of women's activism in public life.
Women and Social Movements International: 1840 to Present
An online archive of primary sources related to women's international activism

This digital archive (complete as of June 2015) includes 150,000 pages of conference proceedings, reports of international women's organizations, publications and web pages of women's non-governmental organizations, and letters, diaries, and memoirs of women active internationally since the mid-nineteenth century.

Digital Schomburg
Exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora.

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