In UCSB Special Collections
Longer runs of similar newspapers have been cataloged individually and may be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog. Titles include:
Akwesasne Notes
Altar Native Sun
Berkeley Barb
Daily Planet
Directions for Women
Everywoman
Goleta Valley Today
Green Revolution
isla vista argo
Isla Vista Free Press
Isla Vista Viewpoint
Isla Vistar
LA Free Press
Majority Report
Nola Express
Open City
Planet
Probe
Santa Barbara Independent
Santa Barbara News & Review
Sojourner
Strategic Hamlet
American Religions Collection. Contains newspapers issued by various twentieth century, non-mainstream religious groups.
Radical Pamphlets Collection. Includes material relating to anarchism, anticommunism, anti-war, draft resistance and conscientious objection status, ecology, ecumenicism, education, gangs, gay liberation, health care, imperialism, intentional communities, labor unions, Marxism, New Left, peace activism, revolutionary movements, student activism, tenants rights, Viet Nam, and women's issues.
Santa Barbara Newspapers Collection. Contains smaller runs of local newspapers, including alternative press.
Elsewhere in UCSB Libraries
Alternative Press: A Guide to the Microfilm Collection (Reference). A copy of the guide only is at UCSB. The microfilm was acquired through the UC Shared Collections and Access program, and is located at UCSC.
Alternative Press Index (Reference).
Underground Press Collection, 1963-1985. Microform set, 476 reels, with accompanying guide. Some, but not most, of the issues in the Alternative Press Collection can be found in the Underground Press Collection.
At Other Institutions
Ash, Lee, and William G. Miller, Subject Collections (New York: R.R. Bowker, 1993), has headings such as Underground Literature and Press, which list a number of repositories with significant related collections. Among them are:
Library of Congress, Serial and Government Publications Division
Michigan State University
Northwestern University
University of Connecticut
Stanford University, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace. New Left Politics Collection and other special subject collections, at: http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/homepage/library.html
State Historical Society of Wisconsin. According to the entry in Ash, the largest collection of U.S. and Canadian underground or alternative publications in North America (http://www.shsw.wisc.edu/library/collect.html). Also, a number of social action collections in the Archives Division at: http://www.shsw.wisc.edu/archives/index.html
University of California Berkeley, Bancroft Library. Free Speech Movement Project at:http://library.berkeley.edu/BANC/FSM/
University of California, Davis, Special Collections. Alternative theatre collections, several from the San Francisco area at: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/specol/html/perform.html
UCLA, Young Library. The entry in Ash notes: "Current non-governmental English-language pamphlets (192,819), broadsides, leaflets and other ephemera on public affairs, from 1960, representing a wide spectrum of political and social opinions."