RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (RILM), published by the International Repertory of Music Literature, is available on EBSCOhost®. Music and arts scholars, performers, librarians and students will now be able to use the powerful EBSCOhost interface to search over 300,000 bibliographic entries for scholarly writings on music and related disciplines.
RILM provides concise abstracts and broad coverage with indexing of all types of scholarly works published in over 140 languages. The entries are classified by topic and include original-language titles; title translations in English; full bibliographic information including abstracts in English. The database also offers author, subject, and periodical indexes, as well as a detailed thesaurus.
RILM's extensive data is drawn from music-related articles, books, bibliographies, dissertations, films and videos, and many other sources. Even reviews, recording notes and pedagogical manuals are included if they are of scholarly interest.
Subject areas covered in the database include theory and analysis, historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, librarianship, pedagogy, liturgy, dance, criticism and music therapy. Also included are interdisciplinary studies on music and other related fields such as literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, acoustics, aesthetics, sociology, linguistics and semiotics, mathematics, philosophy and many more.
Additionally, EBSCO's linking technology allows users to gain seamless access from a citation in an EBSCOhost result list to the corresponding full text located in another resource. For example, EBSCO's Academic SearchTM Premier database provides full text for over 250 journals indexed in RILM. In addition to linking to the full text available in EBSCOhost databases, users may also link to the library's collection of electronic journals available through EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service and other electronic journals from publishers registered with CrossRef. Links from the RILM database can also direct users to a library's OPAC, online ILL forms or services, document delivery services, search engines, book vendors and more.
About Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM)
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is the world's premier music bibliography and index. It is a guide to publications on music and related topics worldwide in any format, including books, articles, films, sound recordings, web sites, and more. The project is made possible by the efforts of over 60 national committees around the world. RILM Abstracts is published online, in print, and on CD-ROM. For more information, visit www.RILM.org.
Released: Dec. 3, 2002
