The Left Index is published
in its entirety, online. Prior to this, the Left Index was only
available as a combination of 1982-1999 in print and 1990 onward online.
Over 278,478 citations & abstracts with some full text cover a diversity of
literature including scholarly journals, radical periodicals, books, book reviews, book
chapters, theses & dissertations, bulletins, newsletters, internet documents and
numerous other sources on the Left from 1979 & earlier to the present. Several
thousand links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the web
are now available. Several hundred links provide access to important websites, carefully
selected and reviewed by our editorial staff.
- All citations produced since the first issue of the Left
Index (1982) are now included as database records.
- In most cases, records citing a review of a book will also
include the full bibliographic details of the book including the ISBN of the most recent
edition.
- Many citations include abstracts with links to freely
available full text on the internet or linkable access to journal articles through your
library's full-text vendor services such as EBSCO, JSTOR, Project MUSE,
Swets-Blackwell, etc.
- 270 core journals are regularly reviewed and over 1,600 are
referenced in the Left Index. Access over 75 important electronic and paper
journals never before indexed in either the Left Index or Alternative Press
Index in order to keep pace with valuable scholarship and perspectives from all
regions of the world. Another 50 core publications are under review for inclusion at a
later date for a total of 110 new publications.
- Full-text search-and-retrieval of over
75,000 valuable
electronic documents freely available on the internet; URL links are available to display
all documents (thousands more internet documents will be processed over the next couple of
years and added to the database on an ongoing basis, URL links are regularly checked to
avoid dead-links).
- Summaries of 250 quality websites with URL links (several
hundred more sites are being evaluated for relevant content).
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