Alternative Press Index Archive (EBSCOhost) Alternative Press Index Archive (APIA) covers the period 1969 through to 1990.This bibliographic database contains journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 700 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Covering theories and practices of socialism and revolution alongside ecology, democracy and anarchism, feminism and organized labor, indigenous peoples and gays/lesbians, coverage is both international and interdisciplinary.