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This summer, RILM Abstracts with Full Text will add eleven more titles to its full-text journal collection. The new titles are:

• Eisenstädter Haydn-Berichte. Wien: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, 2002–. ISSN 2616-8979
• Jahrbuch für Liturgik und Hymnologie. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1955–. ISSN 0075-2681
• Journal of music theory and transcultural music studies. Isparta: Genç Bilge Yayıncılık, 2023–. ISSN 3023-7335
• Liszt journal: Jahrbuch der Liszt Akademie Raiding. Wien: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, 2024–. ISSN 3061-0451
• Lucrări de muzicologie/Musicology papers. Cluj-Napoca: Conservatorul de Muzică G. Dima, 2009–. ISSN 1222-894X/2068-8601 and eISSN 1222-894X/2285-0031
• Meshk journal of religious music. Istanbul: Istanbul University Press/İstanbul Üniversitesi Yayinlari, 2024–. eISSN 3062-0430
• Music cognition. Cluj-Napoca: MediaMusica, 2017–. ISSN 2601-3193 and eISSN 2601-3207
• Newsletter of the Dvořák Society for Czech and Slovak Music. Newcastle-under-Lyme: Dvořák Society for Czech and Slovak Music, 1988–. ISSN 0000-0000
• Notes: Quarterly journal of the Music Library Association. Middleton: Music Library Association, 1934–. ISSN 0027-4380 and eISSN 1534-150X
• 音楽教育学 [Ongaku kyōikugaku]. Koganei: Nihon Ongaku Kyōiku Gakkai/The Japan Music Education Society, 1971–. ISSN 0289-6907
• Senfl-Studien. Wien: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, 2012–18. ISSN 2716-2534  

These new additions reflect RILM’s multidisciplinary, multilingual, and multinational scope. Covering Western art music, religious practices, psychological perspectives, theoretical approaches, pedagogy, librarianship, and more, their contents will appeal to the interest of a wide range of researchers. 

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text also extends its formidable collection of exclusive content, making the Eisenstädter Haydn-Berichte; Liszt journal: Jahrbuch der Liszt Akademie Raiding; Senfl-Studien; and 音楽教育学 [Ongaku kyōikugaku] available in a digital format for the first time.

With cover-to-cover access to over 300 periodicals, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text enhances the comprehensive, international bibliography of writings on music, featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. It covers over 1.7 million publications from the early 19th century to the present on traditional music, popular music, jazz, classical music, and related subjects, providing a complete research experience.

If you do not already subscribe to RILM Abstracts with Full Text, get in touch with your EBSCO sales representative, or email information@ebsco.com.

RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM) Product Coordinator Lindsey Eckenroth will be in attendance at the conference of the U.S. branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music in Washington, D.C., 26 February–1 March 2026. The event takes the theme of Popular Music and the State.

On Saturday, 28 February, 8:30–9:00am local time, Lindsey will present a paper titled “The Carter Family’s ‘Single girl, married girl’: Tracing interpretive tensions through the lens of social reproduction theory” as part of the Conservatism panel. Her research presents this 1928 hillbilly hit through the lens of the Carters’ family-oriented, conservative, self-described “morally good” public image; the values and gender norms associated with country music; and discourses surrounding motherhood, reproductive choice, and feminism in the U.S. during the early 20th century. 

Lindsey will also be around for the duration of the conference, so please feel free to catch her to ask questions, provide feedback, pick up some free materials about RAPMM, or just say hello.

And for more details on this event, please visit the conference website on which you’ll find the conference program.

RILM will participate in the 95th annual meeting of the Music Library Association (MLA), held in Salt Lake City, 25-28 February 2026.

Conference attendees are cordially invited to a luncheon celebrating the start of RILM’s 60th anniversary during the MLA Annual Meeting. The luncheon will take place on Friday, 27 February 2026, 12:00–1:00 pm MST at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center.  

Executive Director Tina Frühauf will open with a State of RILM and reflections on the organization’s direction moving forward, followed by Elizabeth Martin-Ruiz, who will share updates on recent and forthcoming product developments. Ian McGorray will close with a look at RILM’s 60-year history.

Please RSVP by Friday, 20 February 2026 to reserve your lunch and a seat by emailing conferences@rilm.org with your name, institution, and “MLA 2026” in the subject line. 

In addition to the luncheon, Ian, Liz, and Tina will be available throughout the conference to discuss RILM products and gather feedback. We invite you to visit the RILM booth, schedule an appointment via subscriptions@rilm.org, or—if attending virtually—arrange a one-on-one Zoom consultation after the MLA has concluded. 

And to learn more about the event, head to the conference website, or peruse the program. 

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Three titles have just been added to RILM Music Encyclopedias, further enriching its collection of reference works from around the globe:

• Walter Brunetto, Piccolo vocabolario etnomusicologico: Forme, stili, repertori e contesti della musica di tradizione orale italiana (Rome: Squilibri, 2012) 253 p. — In Italian.
• Frank Daykin, Encyclopedia of French art song: Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc (Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2013) vi, 739 p. — In English.
• Igor de Gandarias, Diccionario de la música en Guatemala (rev. ed.; Ciudad de Guatemala: Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, 2024) xv, 193 p. — In Spanish.

These newly available texts exemplify RILM Music Encyclopedias’ commitment to comprehensive, international, and subject-specific coverage. 

The Piccolo vocabolario etnomusicologico offers a coherent, structured, and systematic lexicon devoted to the study of Italian traditional music. Connecting performance practice with rigorous scholarly research, the Encyclopedia of French art song offers an in-depth exploration of individual mélodies by Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc. The Diccionario de la música en Guatemala is the first reference work devoted exclusively to Guatemala’s musical traditions, encompassing Indigenous, colonial, and contemporary influences.

Together, these additions underscore the role of RILM Music Encyclopedias in preserving, contextualizing, and advancing global perspectives on musical traditions and historiography.

RILM Music Encyclopedias is available via EBSCOhost and on RILM’s platform, Egret, at rme.rilm.org.

RILM will be in attendance at the Forging an American Musical Identity (FAMI) conference in New York, NY, 28–30 January 2026.

Hosted by The Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation’s project Music in Gotham: The New York Scene 1862–1875, the conference and related events are held across iconic NYC performance and research venues, such as The Graduate Center (CUNY), the NYPL for the Performing Arts, and Carnegie Hall. The three-day event explores a broad spectrum of repertories through scholarly discussion and live performances, featuring music not heard for over a century. Together, these activities invite reflection on how music shaped 19th-century American culture and how it continues to inform our understanding of American identity today. 

RILM staff can be found at the RILM exhibition table in front of The Graduate Center’s Elebash Recital Hall and Segal Hall on 29 and 30 January, respectively.

Stop by to learn more about all of RILM’s resources. And for more details on this event, please visit the conference website on which you’ll find the conference program.