Articles & Databases

Covers a wide range of modern and emerging theories and practices including socialism, democracy, and ecology. Earlier coverage is available in Alternative Press Index Archive. 

Alternative Press Index title list (APC)

Covers a wide range of modern and emerging theories and practices including socialism, democracy, and ecology. Current coverage is available in Alternative Press Index.

Alternative Press Index title list (APC)

American Song is a history database consisting of over 16,000 tracks users select and listen to over the Internet. You’ll find songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys.

U.S. news content from local, regional, and national sources that include printed and online newspapers, blogs, journals, newswires, broadcast transcripts and videos. Particularly robust in California resources (over 300 different titles, including Sacramento Bee, San Jose Mercury News, and Oakland Tribune).

Resources for genealogical and historical research. Includes census, military, court, land, probate, vital and church records; directories; passenger lists, and more.

Accessible only in the Main Library and Branches

Primary-source collections, covering U.S. foreign policy, U.S. civil rights, global affairs & colonial studies and modern history. 

Free access provided by the California State Library.

Articles covering a wide range of art subjects.

Newspaper clippings, announcements of gallery shows, obituaries, magazine articles or exhibit catalogs featuring artists and architects who have lived or worked in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Significant dramatic literature of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries by leading actors from around the world, curated and recorded for online listening. 

This resource is supported in whole or in part by funding provided by the State of California, administered by the California State Library.

This resource will go live on July 1.