Global Financial Data

Global Financial Data requires individual registration. To register, click on the link below, select “New Member”, then “Academic”. Only a first name, last name, and email address are required. Once registered, click on the link below, access the database via the Login button, and sign in with your York email address and password.

• Access Global Financial Data

NOTE: The University’s subscription only includes access to the GFDatabase search engine (listed on the left side of the entry screen).

Academic Charts Online

Academic Charts Online is a unique resource that contains tools that allow you to interpret, graph, analyse, compare and contrast musical trends and interactions. A single search of international charting albums and singles under exclusive academic licence from Billboard, the Official Charts Company. It compiles authorised charts in the Americas, Europe and some Asian territories, with new content being added all the time.

Rock’s Back Pages

Rock’s Backpages is an online database of rock music writing from around the world. It is a unique resource unavailable elsewhere online. Sourced from the pages of the music and mainstream press, it is a massive library of articles (reviews, interviews, features and more) from the early 1960s right up to the present day. In addition to an archive of text articles, they also provide exclusive mp3 audio files of original source interviews.

Encyclopedia of popular music

This encyclopedia’s 30,000 entries cover all genres and periods of popular music from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music. The expanded Fourth Edition includes thousands of new entries on trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals. Key dates, biographies, and further reading are provided for artists covered, along with complete discographies that include record labels, release dates, and a 5-star album rating system.