References

Used References for the UK music Industry
1. www.intute.ac.uk
Intute is an academic database used for searching thousands of resources to help you choose the key websites in your subject.it contributed immensely to my secondery research of "the UK music industry" and it gives me useful link of the subject am searching,i also used it to research any resources i find on other websites such as google and wikipedia.
*Note: Intute is created by a consortium of seven universities, working together with a whole host of partners.

The Intute consortium is:

University of Birmingham
University of Bristol
Heriot-Watt University
The University of Manchester
Manchester Metropolitan University
University of Nottingham
University of Oxford

2. www.scholar.google.co.uk
Google scholar is an advanced way of doing your research online & has features just like intute which provides a simple way to broadly search for schorlarly literature.
is a free online service that helps you to find the web resources for your studies and research.

3. www.google.co.uk
google.com is a popular search engine for research and i used it to get some useful informations on the UK music industry.however one of the useful resources i find through google search is the planetoftunes.com free resources.

4. www.planetoftunes.com
planet of tunes free resources is very useful because its ownd by a UK musician and multimedia artist Matt Ottewill. who was born in Hertfordshire north of London,the website provides very useful article which contains a diagram detailing the principal organisational structures of the music industry together with brief discussions of those organisations.

5. www.ukmusic.org
this is the website of the UK umbrella organisation that is representing the collective interests of the UK’s commercial music industry,i regurlary used this site because it includes the useful websites of the UK music industry organisations such as;Association of Independent Music (AIM), the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters (BASCA), BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) Limited, PRS for Music, the Music Managers Forum (MMF), the Music Publishers Association Limited (MPA), the Musicians Union (MU) and Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL).

6. www.wikipedia.org
wikipedia is another free online service that help search the web for thousands of resources.for example i googled the UK music industry and i found a useful information about the UK music organisational structure on wikipedia.org.

7. www.bbc.co.uk
BBC website news is where to find both old and recent docummentary's and news about the uk music industry,and i got useful informations and video of the british music award and the recent news of the UK "Abbey Road Studios".

8. www.jstore.org
jstore.org is a database used for academic research and it is very easy to search and get the resources you want, beacuse it has features such as the intute.ac.uk that will help the researcher finds the materials so easily.(jstore finds articles, theses, books, abstracts or court opinions & it also offers offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching.

9. www.guardian.co.uk
This is an official website of British national daily newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group.the website has thousands of news & videos about the UK music industry,however it also has blogs about UK music organisations and its major players.

10. www.youtube.com
youtube.com is another websites that acts as online broadcasting media that has thousands of various documentary videos and news about the music industry.it was useful to my search on the UK music industry because i was able to watch various videos and news of the music industry. for example (www.youtube.com)