New Product Announcement-->RILM, RISM, RIPM, Index to Printed Music, Music Catalog

By adding new products and moving one old product, we now have all these music databases on a single platform.

RILM: abstracts of music literature (this was formerly on OCLC)

Provides broad international coverage of Western and Eastern classical, pop, folk, and jazz music, as well as interdisciplinary studies on music, including records in over 202 languages from 3,700 journals. Includes over 271,900 abstracts and citations drawn from articles, books, conference proceedings, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, festschriften, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, videos, reviews and more. Coverage includes 1967 to the present.

RISM: International Inventory of Music Resources after 1600

...comprehensively document the world's musical sources of manuscripts of printed music, works on music theory and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections

RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals

Provides access to eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century periodical literature dealing with music

Music Catalog: US Library of Congress 1960-

The Library of Congress Music catalog provides access to over 377,885+ annotated bibliographic records including records from the 1960s, unpublished in print or microfiche, plus the fully cataloged contributions of other libraries selected by the Library of Congress and the Music Library Association. Dates of coverage include 1960 to present

Index to printed music

The Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series combines the Index Database, the Bibliography Database and the Names Database into the only electronic title for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions. Because it indexes each individual piece in a collection, it provides superior access for scholars, performers, teachers, and other researchers. Music for specific performing forces is easily retrievable, thus offering detailed repertory for performers, conductors, and directors of ensembles