Provides data from music streaming and social media platforms. In order to sign up and get your own login, please contact the library at your campus. If you are a faculty member wishing to use Chartmetric with your class, please provide us with a list of student emails rather than having students contact us individually.
African American Music Reference brings together 50,000 pages of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
Encyclopedias, textbooks, and reference databases summarize background information on historical events and established facts about controversial issues.
Research-based articles written by academics and reviewed by fellow scholars provide credible analysis behind different viewpoints on a deeper level.
News resources and interviews can include primary sources of information to learn about how something was reported in real time.