AMS and RILM-U.S.
Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) is a comprehensive bibliography of writings on music serving the global music research community. Today RILM has over 600,000 records in 214 languages from 151 countries. RILM's International Center is housed at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. Each participating country has a national office or liaison that supplies records for potential inclusion.
The American Musicological Society supports RILM-U.S.'s work assembling materials pertaining to music research that are published in the U.S.A.
RILM invites authors to review their publication listings in the database, create new records, and revise existing records. RILM records are viewed 184,000 times per week in libraries around the world. Through rilm.org/submissions, and following the link for "submissions by individuals," authors can interact directly with the database.
An author search lists all entries by the searched author in reverse chronological order, providing a synoptic view of publication history. By opening each record, authors can view the contents and add or revise as they see fit. It is also possible to attach new reviews to records, and to add second abstracts in other languages. Authors are especially encouraged to create new records.
All submissions for U.S. publications are tracked, reviewed, and edited by the RILM-U.S. Office. Author assistance frees the RILM-U.S. office to seek out additional scholarly publications to include in RILM.
See the RILM web site for full details about RILM and its work. Questions may be directed to questions@rilm.org.
RILM-U.S. is housed at Cornell University, under the direction of Music Librarian Bonna J. Boettcher.
See the RILM-U.S. information page for further information, including lists of core and secondary journals indexed through RILM-U.S.
The American Musicological Society's Delegate to the RILM-U.S. Governing Board is Honey Meconi (University of Rochester).
