Library Guides: English 1520: Creative Nonfiction: Cultural Context & Critique

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Contains 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

Date Coverage:Varies; primarily 1970s-present with some titles covering earlier dates

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Reader's Guide Retrospective 1890-1982 Contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.
Date Coverage: 1890-1982

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Date Coverage: 1970 - date
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Index to Black Periodicals (and previous title variants) Room 202 AI3 .I552

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