The definitive online global reference repository of core music encyclopedias and dictionaries
An entire music library’s bookcase just one click away.

Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM), publisher of the world’s largest bibliographic database of literature about music, proudly introduces RILM Music Encyclopedias™, a full-text compilation of 41 seminal titles published from 1775 to the present, the majority of which are not available anywhere else online. RILM Music Encyclopedias comprises nearly 80,000 pages with approximately 165,000 entries. It provides comprehensive encyclopedic coverage of the most important disciplines, fields of research, and subject areas, among them popular music, opera, musical instruments, blues, gospel, world music, recorded sound, and women composers. Its content spans multiple countries, cultures, and languages (including English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, and Greek). It is designed as an extensive global resource that meets the teaching, learning, and research needs of the international music community. New titles will be added annually, ensuring that RILM Music Encyclopedias is musicology’s reference shelf of the future, comprising every aspect of lexicographical writings on music. RILM Music Encyclopedias is available via EBSCOhost®, which brings its expertise to bear on the design of the online database with a user-friendly and familiar platform. RILM Music Encyclopedias is fully equipped with the most advanced search and browse capabilities, allowing for cross searches in multiple languages. It is the only multi-lingual cross-searchable collection of music encyclopedias in the world.

For trials, sales, and subscription terms please contact your EBSCO Sales Representative or email information@ebsco.com.

For further details:
rilm.org/encyclopedias

For inquiries and suggestions:
encyclopedias@rilm.org

About RILM
Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) is committed to the comprehensive and accurate representation of music scholarship in all countries and languages, and across all disciplinary and cultural boundaries. Since 1967 it has been a leader in supporting worldwide music scholarship. It has the backing and participation of the three major international scholarly music societies: International Musicological Society; International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres; and International Council for Traditional Music. Through its global network and advanced information technologies, RILM is dedicated to disseminating knowledge and fostering communication among all music researchers. Its flagship publication, RILM abstracts of music literature, is a comprehensive international bibliography of writings on music. With the addition of retrospective records, RILM now offers abstracts and indexing for over three centuries of publications on music from around the world. As of 2015, RILM is releasing of full-text publications, starting with RILM music encyclopedias and continuing in 2016 with MGGOnline, the digitization of Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. This repository of resources will be further expanded in 2016.

About EBSCO Information Services
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is the leading discovery service provider for libraries worldwide with more than 8,000 discovery customers in over 100 countries. EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) provides each institution with a comprehensive, single search box for its entire collection, offering unparalleled relevance ranking quality and extensive customization. EBSCO is also the preeminent provider of online research content for libraries, including hundreds of research databases, historical archives, point-of-care medical reference, and corporate learning tools serving millions of end users at tens of thousands of institutions. EBSCO is the leading provider of electronic journals & books for libraries, with subscription management for more than 360,000 serials, including more than 57,000 e-journals, as well as online access to more than 750,000 e-books. For more information, visit the EBSCO website at: www.ebsco.com. EBSCO Information Services is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., a family owned company since 1944.

On Saturday, December 5, at 12:15 p.m., RILM will present
“Power searching and full-text encyclopedias: Recent developments at RILM”
in Room 410 of the Hilton Austin

Attendees will be treated not only to a free meal, but also to a review of the latest developments at Répertoire International de Littérature Musical. During this luncheon Editorial Director James Cowdery will present advances in EBSCO’s indexing browser. Improvements to the index and its searchability are increasing access to RILM’s 864K+ records.

Jim will also introduce a new product: RILM Music Encyclopedias, a full-text compilation of 41 titles published from 1775 to the present, the majority of which are not available anywhere else online. RILM Music Encyclopedias comprises nearly 80,000 pages with approximately 165,000 entries. It provides comprehensive encyclopedic coverage of the most important disciplines, fields, and subject areas, among them popular music, opera, instruments, blues, gospel, world music, recorded sound, and women composers. Its content spans multiple countries, cultures, and languages (including English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, and Greek). As the only cross-searchable collection of music encyclopedias in the world, it is designed as an extensive global resource that meets the teaching, learning, and research needs of the international music community.

RSVP is required by Wednesday 3 December 2015 to reserve lunch and a seat. Please send an email to conferences@rilm.org, including your name, institution, and “SEM”.

You are invited to lunch in Louisville hosted by MGG and RILM.

On Friday, 13 November, at noon, RILM will present, “Music research in the 21st century: MGG, RILM, and expanding reference resources” in Segel, on the 3rd floor of Galt House, Louisville.

There will be two parts to the presentation:

(1)MGG (Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart) goes digital. In 2014 the publishers Bärenreiter and J.B. Metzler entered a long-term partnership with RILM for realizing MGG Online. MGG Online will include the content of the second edition of MGG (1994–2008) as well as subsequent updates, revisions, and additions. All entries from this widely consulted and cited encyclopedia will be accessible to users through the new online database beginning in 2017. Regular updates, new articles, and many additional details will guarantee that MGG continues to be musicology’s foremost reference work. During the presentation the Editor in Chief of MGG, Laurenz Lütteken (University of Zurich), and the Editor Ilka Sührig (Bärenreiter Verlag Kassel), together with Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie (Editor in Chief of RILM), will inform the American musicological community about the project for the first time. Information regarding the first edition of MGG will also be presented. All interested persons (scholars, librarians, contributors, board members, etc.) are invited to this presentation.

(2) Tina Frühauf will introduce the new RILM Music Encyclopedias, a full-text compilation of 41 seminal titles published from 1775 to the present, the majority of which are not available anywhere else online. RILM Music Encyclopedias comprises nearly 80,000 pages with approximately 165,000 entries. It provides comprehensive encyclopedic coverage of the most important disciplines, fields, and subject areas, among them popular music, opera, instruments, blues, gospel, world music, recorded sound, and women composers. Its content spans multiple countries, cultures, and languages (including English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, and Greek). As the only cross-searchable collection of music encyclopedias in the world, it is designed as an extensive global resource that meets the teaching, learning, and research needs of the international music community.

RSVP is required by Wednesday 11 November 2015 to reserve lunch and a seat. Please send an email to conferences@rilm.org, including your name, institution, and “AMS”.

More information is here (English) and here (German); more information on RILM Music Encyclopedias is available here.

RILM seeks to fill an Associate Editor position with someone who will engage professionally and culturally with German-language music scholarship. Go here for the full job description and application.

On 19 September 2015, Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale will participate in the Encuentro Internacional de Investigación y Documentación de la Música y las Artes Escénicas, which will be held at the Conservatorio de las Rosas, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. The morning session will be devoted to the introduction and demonstration of RILM, RIPM, RISM, and RIdIM; the afternoon round-table discussion will touch upon the important issues concerning the participation of Mexican institutions and the inclusion of Mexican materials into the four R’s. Executive Editor Zdravko Blazekovic will represent RILM’s perspective.

El 19 de septiembre de 2015, el Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) participará en la Reunión Internacional de Investigación y Documentación de Música y Artes Escénicas, que se celebrará en el Conservatorio de las Rosas de Morelia, Michoacán, México. La sesión de la mañana se dedicará a la introducción y demostración de RILM, RIPM, RISM y RIdIM. Por la tarde, una sesión en mesa redonda tocará los temas importantes que afectan a la participación de instituciones mexicanas y la inclusión de materiales mexicanos a los cuatro R’s. Zdravko Blazekovic, Editor Ejecutivo, representará la perspectiva de RILM.

Moving forward, Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale’s two main bibliographic products, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and RILM Retrospective Abstracts of Music Literature have been realigned and renamed on the EBSCO platform.

Effective 29 July 2015, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature will change its name to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1967-Present only). At the same time, the content of what was called RILM Abstracts of Music Literature has been merged with RILM Retrospective Abstracts of Music Literature into a single, comprehensive database. The new product is called RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and will provide a single point of access. With the merge, customers will be able to search all RILM Abstracts content and utilize RILM’s four authority databases (Names, Subjects, Instrument Families and Countries), which was previously unavailable when accessing both databases in a multi-database search environment.

In addition, we are releasing feature enhancements to the functionality of the Major Topics and Subjects fields. The data contained in the Major Topic field has been enhanced to provide users with a more dynamic search experience, and the Subject field will now engage all of the preceding terms to provide more relevant results. For more details on these enhancements, visit the EBSCO Support Site.

Regular users of EBSCO should have heard from EBSCO regarding these changes, which will require some updating of links and the saving of searches, but for more information on these changes, please contact EBSCO’s Customer Support.

Moving forward, Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale’s two main bibliographic products, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and RILM Retrospective Abstracts of Music Literature have been realigned and renamed on the EBSCO platform.

Effective 29 July 2015, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature will change its name to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1967-Present only). At the same time, the content of what was called RILM Abstracts of Music Literature has been merged with RILM Retrospective Abstracts of Music Literature into a single, comprehensive database. The new product is called RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and will provide a single point of access. With the merge, customers will be able to search all RILM Abstracts content and utilize RILM’s four authority databases (Names, Subjects, Instrument Families and Countries), which was previously unavailable when accessing both databases in a multi-database search environment.

In addition, we are releasing feature enhancements to the functionality of the Major Topics and Subjects fields. The data contained in the Major Topic field has been enhanced to provide users with a more dynamic search experience, and the Subject field will now engage all of the preceding terms to provide more relevant results. For more details on these enhancements, visit the EBSCO Support Site.

Regular users of EBSCO should have heard from EBSCO regarding these changes, which will require some updating of links and the saving of searches, but for more information on these changes, please contact EBSCO’s Customer Support.

Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) publishes RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, widely recognized as the world’s most comprehensive abstracted bibliography covering music and related disciplines. The database started in 1967 and now includes some 830,000 records. It is fully searchable, with in-depth vocabulary-controlled indexing and abstracts.

RILM is looking to produce video tutorials for assisting users to work in its database on the EBSCO platform. We are seeking someone who can produce a series of short videos highlighting different search techniques for this music research tool. Experience with RILM and/or other EBSCO databases is strongly preferred.

Hours are flexible. The position will terminate on the completion of the project. Compensation will depend on experience and qualifications. Interested persons should send a CV and letter of interest to rilm@rilm.org.

Music research in the 21st century: Features and search techniques of the RILM bibliographies

Everyone is welcome!

Thursday February 26, at 7:30 am

In Horace Tabor/Molly Brown

We will be providing a free breakfast for people who attend. The breakfast will be followed by a brief presentation to show you what’s new on the EBSCO platform – features designed to make RILM more useful than ever to library patrons. Updates to the RILM bibliography on the EBSCO platform will be showcased. ​If you plan to attend, please send an email to conferences@rilm.org.

The RILM Team

[This position has been filled]
Overview:
Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) publishes RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and RILM Retrospective Abstracts of Music Literature, widely recognized as the world’s most comprehensive abstracted bibliography on music and related disciplines for over 45 years, now with some 830,000 records. The database is fully searchable with in-depth vocabulary-controlled indexing and abstracts, and with titles given in both the original language and English translations. RILM is currently aggressively expanding its product offerings, creating several digital publishing initiatives. These initiatives focus on extracting full-text data from publications such as journals and encyclopedias, targeting topics within RILM’s domain expertise. The initial task will be to create and implement a content delivery platform for an online German music encyclopedia for users around the world. The goal is to create a best-in-class framework for extracting and indexing full-text content (from digital and printed sources) for searching, display, and content management. Key to these initiatives is integrating RILM’s existing unique bibliographic and related assets into the indexing and searching process. Responsibilities:

• Software architecture and design
  • Understand project requirements, and translate those requirements into architecture design and implementation
  • Implement functionality on a Web-based platform using both an XML database and an RDBMS (SQL) database
  • Participate in all aspects of development team tasks, testing and support as appropriate
  • Work closely with project team in an agile environment
  • Participate in preparation of both technical and end-user documentation
• Participate organization-wide in all RILM development projects
  • Assists the product and technology team with input across all projects
  • Provide communication and recommendations to management and piers on best practices, consistency, and documentation
• Provide hands-on end user support where necessary

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or related field, or related work experience
• 3+ years experience in software development with experience in:
  • XML (XML, XPath, and XSLT)
  • HTML/CSS, and JavaScript (jQuery)
  • RESTful Web Services (using both XML and JSON)
  • SQL (MS SQL and MySQL)
  • Outstanding communication skills, written and verbal
• The following qualifications are a plus
  • Experience with XQuery, MarkLogic’s search features, and development platform
  • Experience with Node.js
  • Experience with AWS or similar hosted platform
  • Experience with NoSQL datastores like MarkLogic

The successful candidate will have some experience in RILM’s domain area (libraries, academic publishing), or is willing to accept a steep learning curve. The successful candidate will also be willing and able to work in multiple development environments and frameworks, as well as to learn and provide leadership in new environments.Hours: Full-time, exempt. RILM’s official work week is 35 hours, but time requirements fluctuate with projects, and more than 35 hours each week is common. Some travel is likely.Salary: Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications.Please send cover letter and CV to rilm@rilm.org