RILM: Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale
(International Repertory of Music Literature)

A UNESCO-accredited NGO, Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) documents, safeguards, and preserves the world’s knowledge about all musical traditions, making this knowledge accessible to research and performance communities worldwide via digital collections and advanced tools. RILM’s collections aim to include the music scholarship of all countries, in all languages, and across all disciplinary and cultural boundaries, thereby fostering research in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

RILM is a joint project of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML); the International Musicological Society (IMS); the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD), and the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM).

RILM’s flagship publication, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, is a comprehensive international bibliography of writings on music covering publications from the early 19th century to the present.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text includes the bibliography as well as full-text articles from nearly 300 journals linked from the bibliographic records, with new journals being added every year.

RILM Index to Scores and Collected Editions (RISE) is a robust digital finding aid for searching specific musical works contained in printed collections, sets, and series. RISE includes almost 600,000 entries, and expands constantly to cover new volumes as they appear on the market.

RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM) is an extensive digital collection comprising over 125 independently published popular music magazines and fanzines—several not available anywhere else online—in circulation from the late 1960s to the present day.

RILM Music Encyclopedias is a growing full-text repository of seminal music encyclopedias, currently counting nearly 70 titles, with new titles being added every year.

DEUMM Online digitizes, enhances, and extends the Dizionario enciclopedico universale della musica e dei musicisti (DEUMM), the most extensive modern music dictionary in the Italian language. In its new online format, it offers some 150 new or updated articles per year that reflect current trends in Italian and global music scholarship.

In partnership with the publisher Bärenreiter and J.B. Metzler, RILM runs MGG Online (http://mgg-online.com), which comprises the 2nd edition of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart along with new and substantially updated content.

RILM hosts Hofmeister XIX: An online, searchable database of the Hofmeister Monatsberichte for the years 1829–1900, containing some 330,000 records of published music.

RILM also publishes the widely read blog, Bibliolore (bibliolore.org), and the style manual How to Write About Music: The RILM Manual of Style.

For further information about RILM, visit http://www.rilm.org/.