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Thursday, September 22, 2011 RILM’s Participation in Discovery Services The RILM database can be searched via the EBSCOHost platform and the ProQuest platform, as has been the case for some years. RILM is also available on one discovery service: the EBSCO Discovery Service. RILM has not provided any metadata of any kind to any other discovery service (including Summon, ExLibris, and WorldCat Local). Any indication to the contrary is inaccurate. RILM is the world’s most comprehensive database of music literature. All types of publications on music, in all media, are included: books, journals, online resources, research-based sound recordings and films, dissertations, and more (see a complete list of document types). Publications represented in RILM originate from 122 countries, from Albania to Zimbabwe, and are compiled through a collaborative effort between theInternational Center and some 50 committees across the globe. Almost 700,000 records in 131 languages include title translations into English and abstracts in English; the latter are now supplemented with abstracts in the language of publication. All non-roman writing systems such as Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and Hebrew are also represented. Currently RILM grows at a rate of 30,000 records each year. RILM has dedicated significant resources to the coverage of ethnomusicology, popular music, jazz studies, and retrospective publications over the past two decades. Coverage begins with publications from 1967 and continues through the present. Retrospective projects fill in selected publication types from earlier years, most notably conference proceedings back to 1835. RILM is also committed to establishing an interdisciplinary context for music studies, and therefore actively tracks publications in a wide range of disciplines that includes anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art history, dance studies, dramatic arts, librarianship, literature, pedagogy, philosophy, physics, psychology, sociology, and therapy. RILM records are linked more and more with full-text resources, and this linking is expected to increase significantly. The breadth and depth of coverage is available only through the RILM database. Researchers and students with no access to RILM will miss a large percentage of content in almost any area. And they will not have the advantages of the precision RILM offers them in refining their search. Contact: Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie, Editor-in-Chief, RILM Monday, April 05, 2010 EBSCO to acquire rights to license select databases currently available through the OCLC FirstSearch service EBSCO has purchased the rights to license certain vendor-owned databases, including RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, that are currently available through OCLC FirstSearch. Existing FirstSearch subscribers will continue to receive access to RILM on the FirstSearch platform through the end of their current subscriptions. To ensure a smooth transition for customers, EBSCO plans to provide RILM's current FirstSearch subscribers access to the database through EBSCOhost in parallel with FirstSearch for the remainder of the current subscription. Further details can be found in the EBSCO news release,. You can also contact RILM with any questions. Thursday, February 18, 2010 RILM is blogging Simply by virtue of what they do, RILM editors have a unique perspective on music literature. RILM's new blog, Bibliolore, has been launched for the purpose of sharing such observations with people who find them interesting and relevant to their work. Thursday, January 21, 2010 RILM is no longer available through OVID SilverPlatter platform As of 8 January 2010, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is no longer offered through OVID (SilverPlatter platform) for new subscribers. Active subscriptions are no longer renewable on OVID after the expiration of the current subscription term. RILM continues to be available through EBSCO (EBSCOhost platform), OCLC (FirstSearch and WorldCat Local platforms), and ProQuest (CSA Illumina platform). Free trial subscriptions are available on all of them. The RILM staff will be more than happy to assist through this transition. Please do not hesitate to send questions, comments, or requests for assistance to subscriptions@rilm.org. Monday, November 16, 2009 Music's Intellectual History is published. Sixty-six essays in Music's Intellectual History offer insights into the history of music scholarship from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, demonstrating the partnership of RILM and historiographic investigation. The contributions address an array of subjects and perspectives that indicate the directions music scholarship has taken in the past, reveal the precedents of current scholarly habits, and suggest future paths. An outline of the volume's table of contents can be found on this site. Thursday, October 15, 2009 RILM establishes new committees in Guatemala and Venezuela The Guatemalan national committee began operations in early 2009 under the initiative of Matthias Stockli, a researcher at the Centro de Estudios Folkloricos of the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. He received a doctorate in ethnomusicology from the University of Zurich and has lived in Guatemala since 1997, where he has taught at some of the country's leading universities. In 2006, he co-edited the first ever written compilation of articles dedicated entirely to ethnomusicological research in Guatemala, and since 2008 he is co-editor of the journal Senderos: Revista de etnomusicologia, dedicated mainly to the music cultures of Guatemala and Central America. Only a few months after the establishment of the Guatemalan committee, the pianist and musicologist Eduardo Plaza embarked on a similar venture in Venezuela, thus leading the way to a more comprehensive coverage of that country's rich musicological and ethnomusicological tradition. Eduardo Plaza studied piano and musicology in Strassbourg, France, and returned to Venezuela in 1998. Currently, he is a researcher at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and professor at the Universidad Simon Bolivar, where he also pursues a doctorate in literature. He is a member of the editorial board of the online periodical Musicaenclaves, which, together with the Revista musical de Venezuela, will form the initial core of publications to be entered in RILM on a regular basis. Wednesday, February 18, 2009 RILM exhibits at the Music Library Association RILM is exhibiting at the 78th annual meeting of the Music Library Association in Chicago, Illinois. In addition to browsing RILM publications, conference participants can take advantage of tutorials on how to search RILM effectively at the RILM booth. During the conference RILM's Editor-in-Chief Barbara Mackenzie will report on RILM in a panel dedicated to R-projects (RILM-RIPM-RISM-RIdIM) and other international endeavors. RILM will also partake in a discussion aimed at expanding JSTOR's coverage of music journals. Wednesday, November 12, 2008 OCLC publishes RILM XML data OCLC First Search has recently republished the complete RILM data set formatted in XML. Data going back to 1967 (and to 1835 in the case of conference proceedings) are unified for the first time, greatly facilitating full-text linking. Other features that have become available thanks to the XML data include the display of all non-roman writing systems and original language abstracts, in addition to the ones in English. NISC and OVID users can expect a similar data upgrade in the coming months. Saturday, May 10, 2008 Data in XML format is available for EBSCO and ProQuest - CSA Illumina users RILM's greatly improved data in XML format is now published by EBSCO and CSA. The XML format allows the display of all non-roman writing systems and the availability of double or multiple abstracts. Browsing by indexes such as document types or classes is also greatly improved thanks to the unification of all data going back to 1966, and in the case of conference proceedings back to 1835. The more granular data in XML format also provides the possibility of thousands of new full text links. Monday, May 12, 2008 ICTM joins RILM's Commission Mixte At its meeting in Vienna on 3-4 July 2007 ICTM's Executive Board accepted the invitation from RILM's Commission Mixte to become RILM's third sponsoring organization, joining the International Musicological Society and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres. While ethnomusicological publications have always been within RILM's scope, ICTM's involvement will bring a new level of awareness to the coverage of ethnomusicology. This change will be reflected in RILM's reconstituted Commission Mixte, which serves as RILM's board, providing advice and guidance to the International Center in New York and, by extension, to national committees which supply about half of the bibliographic records included in the database. From 2008 each sponsoring organization will appoint four members to RILM's Commission Mixte. In recent years RILM has significantly broadened its coverage of writings on music published in non-Western countries, striving to make its database truly global, representing scholarship on music anywhere in the world. ICTM members and national and regional committees will be extremely valuable in this effort, particularly by advising RILM about the organizing of RILM national committees in non-Western countries where ICTM membership is strong. Such collaboration will be beneficial for both the international scholarly community and for scholars in countries where RILM does not yet have committees. Sunday, May 11, 2008 Over 35,000 abstracts in the language of publication are now available Most of RILM's national committees provide abstracts in the language of the publications they deal with. RILM has always published English translations of such abstracts; now these translations appear along with the original non-English abstracts, making many RILM abstracts accessible to users who are not fluent in English. Thanks to RILM's new capability of displaying non-roman writing systems, abstracts written in such systems will also be available. Saturday, May 10, 2008 RILM offers free, live, web-based tutorials The need for precise search and browse strategies grows with the number of records in the database. To respond to this need and also to highlight search features that have recently become more powerful (thanks to the availability of the data in XML format) RILM is offering web-based tutorials. Upon demand, special topics can be explored during the tutorials. RILM encourages music librarians, faculty, and graduate and undergraduate classes to take advantage of this offer. Tutorials can be requested through this website. Wednesday, May 07, 2008 RILM Abstracts of music literature volume XXXIII is published, marking the end of an era The production of annual printed volumes, originally RILM's sole endeavor, ceases with volume XXXIII. The largest yet in a series of books stretching back to 1967, volume XXXIII documents 19,619 publications (all published in 1999), in 91 languages, from 81 countries. RILM online includes these records as well as all records in the database, which document publications from as far back as 1835 and as recently as April 2008. Future updates will appear online only. As annual printed volumes continued to increase in size, and researchers increasingly turned to electronic interfaces, it became clear that time and money spent on the production of printed volumes was better spent on improving RILM's online presence. RILM continues, however, to issue new books in the RILM retrospectives series. Friday, May 09, 2008 New submission forms invite contributions from authors, researchers, and bibliophiles RILM has recently upgraded its web submission forms. Thanks to a link to the live database, contributors can browse the existing bibliography of an author before creating a new record. Contributors can also attach reviews to book records, add articles to collections, and provide new or revised abstracts. More detailed instructions can be found on the submissions page of this site. Friday, January 16, 2009 Publication of retrospective Festschriften bibliography projected for April 2009 Thanks to a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the fifth publication in RILM's Retrospective Series, Liber amicorum: Music Festschriften, 1840-1966, Music Scholars and Others, is now in the final stages; the finished book is projected for April 2009. Providing full bibliographic information, abstracts, and indexing for 6000 articles in 800 books, Liber amicorum is the largest compilation of its kind. The collection was abstracted almost entirely by RILM editors. The books were gathered through a variety of sources, including the Graduate Center's interlibrary loan system and the New York Public Library's extensive noncirculating collection. RILM is particularly grateful for the kind cooperation and support of the Brooklyn College Library for granting RILM access to the Gerboth Collection. The volume's value for researchers is increased through the inclusion of many music-related articles in Festschriften dedicated to individuals who distinguished themselves in fields other than music. A volume documenting Festschriften dedicated to composers and musicians is in preparation. Tuesday, May 13, 2008 Speaking of Music: Music Conferences, 1835–1966 becomes available online; institutional price for book is reduced Winner of the 2006 Music Library Association's Vincent H. Duckles Award for "best research tool in music", the fourth publication in the RILM retrospectives series is now available online, extending the coverage of music conferences from 1835 to the present (a 172-year range). Work on this project was initiated by RILM's founder, Barry S. Brook, in the 1960s, but it was discontinued for practical reasons and lay untouched until a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2003 enabled its completion. The list of abstractors reflects the cumulative process, encompassing Brook's graduate students from the 1960s alongside RILM editors from the early 2000s. The project resulted in full bibliographic information, abstracts, and indexing for 5,948 articles from 511 books. Conferences can be browsed by using the congresses, conferences, symposia subject heading. The results can be narrowed down by using desired date ranges and also by using the meeting information (city/name/year) search option. The new pricing of the volume is $145.00 for institutions (reduced 50%), $132.75 for agencies, and $65 for individuals. You can purchase it on this site. Thursday, May 08, 2008 RILM records start featuring all non-roman writing systems RILM records are now capable of displaying all non-roman writing systems, such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Thai, provided that the users have the corresponding character sets installed in their computers. The improved display capabilities are due to RILM's compliance with Unicode (UTF 8), re-formatting of its data in XML going back to 1967 (and to 1835 in the case of conference proceedings), and the compliance of its vendors with the same requirements. Increasing numbers of non-roman titles, authors, publishers, and abstracts are being added to the database, greatly raising the applicable records' level of linguistic specificity. Monday, May 12, 2008 500,000 threshold is crossed RILM's database now contains over 500,000 records in 23 document types, including electronic publications. With newly-established national committees in Africa, China, and Thailand, both the foundation and the size of the database continue to expand, and items published in non-Western countries are increasingly part of the mix. More detailed information on the cumulative data can be obtained through the scope page of the website. |
