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Répertoire international de la presse musicale (Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals, Internationales Repertorium der Musikzeitungen), commonly known as RIPM, provides access to music periodical literature published between 1750 and 1966 through an annotated index, the RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals and two full-text publication series, the RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals and the RIPM e-Library of Music Periodicals.
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Organization
Founded in 1980 by H. Robert Cohen with the collaboration of Marcello Conati, Elvidio Surian, and Christoph-Helmut Mahling, RIPM is one of the four Répertoires (or "R" projects) established by the International Musicological Society (IMS) and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML); these include Le Répertoire international des sources musicales (RISM), Le Répertoire international de littérature musicale (RILM), and Le Répertoire international d’iconographie musicale (RIdIM). RIPM was established by these societies to address two problems: (1) the limited availability of the journals themselves, as most are found in very few libraries and in incomplete runs and/or poor physical condition, and (2) the difficulty in accessing content in a journal once a copy has been located.
RIPM profits from a network of scholars, librarians, and archivists in more than 20 countries and maintains an editorial headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland (the RIPM International Center). To collect and complete runs of journals, RIPM works with a network of partner and participating libraries in the United States and Europe. With only rare exceptions, RIPM makes available complete runs of music journals, many of which represent the only complete copy available anywhere.
The RIPM and RILM Collaboration
Together RIPM and RILM provide access to two hundred and fifty years of music periodical literature and are designed to complement each other chronologically.
Publications
The RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals, available in print and as a database, began publication in 1988. To date, more than 300 volumes have appeared. These three-part publications — consisting of annotated calendars (annotated tables of contents), keyword-in-context/author indexes, and introductory studies — have generated much of the content of the Retrospective Index Online, a database of more than 725,000 highly annotated citations. All RIPM indexing is done in the language of the journal. As of August 2014, 215 music journals have been indexed.
The RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals (Full Text) contains the full-text of journals indexed in the RIPM Retrospective Index. Linked directly from the Retrospective Index, the Archive contains complete runs of over 125 rare journals.
The RIPM e-Library of Music Periodicals is a searchable collection of full-text music journals which will not be treated in the Retrospective Index or the Online Archive. Released in December 2013, the e-Library currently consists of 35 journals.
All RIPM publications are updated regularly. See list of Music Periodicals Treated by RIPM for a complete inventory.
Former Publication
The journal Periodica Musica was published between 1983 and 2005. A full run of the journal is available on RIPM’s website.