25/08/2026
The start of the academic year is an exciting time, full of new students, unforeseeable challenges, and additional opportunities for learning and sharing knowledge. 🎓😀
It's also the perfect time to discover the benefits of RILM’s resources for your research and teaching. RILM’s digital tools make it easy for you and your students to discover musical scholarship and sources from around the world. Whether beginning a new research project, preparing a course, or guiding students through their own research, RILM can help.
Here are a few ways to get the most out of RILM this year:
👀 Check Out RILM Resources on YouTube
Watch quick tutorials and overview videos to help you and your students get started with our resources.
📅 Book a Live Bibliography Session
Reserve a personalized online workshop for your course, led by our expert staff. We'll tailor the content to your topic or curriculum — email us at [email protected] to schedule your session today.
🔎 Discover Our Research Products
Each RILM resource offers unique benefits to enrich your work:
✅ RILM Abstracts of Music Literature — the unrivaled international bibliography of writings on music, available with a full-text enhancement comprising over 300 periodicals.
✅ RILM Index to Scores and Collected Editions (RISE) — a comprehensive digital finding aid for locating musical works published within collections, sets, and series.
✅ RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM) — the ever-expanding full-text compilation of independently published popular music magazines and fanzines.
✅ RILM Music Encyclopedias — a multilingual, growing collection of contemporary and historical reference works dedicated to topics ranging from opera to rock to women composers.
✅ DEUMM Online — the most important modern music dictionary in the Italian language.
✅ MGG Online — the authoritative general encyclopedia for comprehensive up-to-date scholarship. We are continually expanding our offerings, and we welcome your ideas for future video tutorials or workshops.
🔗 Visit our Classrooms page to learn more: https://www.rilm.org/classrooms/
