Répertoire international de la presse musicale

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Répertoire international de la presse musicale (RIPM)

What it is
- RIPM provides access to music periodical literature published from 1750 to 1966. It offers an annotated index (RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals) and two full‑text publication series: RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text and RIPM Preservation Series. It also includes full‑text jazz periodicals (RIPM Jazz Periodicals) covering roughly 1914–2000s.

Organization and purpose
- Founded in 1980 by H. Robert Cohen with colleagues Marcello Conati, Elvidio Surian, and Christoph-Helmut Mahling.
- It is one of four RIPM projects created by the International Musicological Society (IMS) and the International Association of Music Libraries (IAML). The goals were to address the limited availability and difficult access to music journals and to make their content easier to use.
- RIPM relies on a global network of scholars, librarians, and archivists and maintains an editorial center in Baltimore, Maryland. It partners with libraries in the United States and Europe to assemble complete journal runs, often representing the only surviving copies.

RIPM and RILM Collaboration
- RIPM works together with RILM to provide access to about 250 years of music periodical literature, with each project complementing the other chronologically.

Publications (what’s available)
- RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals: started in print in 1988; print publication ended in 2016. It remains available as an online database. By September 2025, 403 music journals are indexed with over 1.2 million annotated citations. All indexing is done in the original language of the journal.
- RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text: a searchable collection of digitized full‑text journals indexed in the Retrospective Index; online access includes complete runs of 333 journals.
- RIPM Preservation Series: a database of full‑text journals not indexed in the Retrospective Index; as of September 2025, includes 154 journals.
- RIPM Jazz Periodicals: a searchable full‑text database for jazz journals, including 166 journals and about 432,000 citations.
- All RIPM publications are updated regularly. For a full list of journals treated, see the RIPM catalog page.
- Former publication: Periodica Musica appeared from 1983 to 2005; a complete run is available on RIPM’s site.

Selected bibliography (highlights)
- RIPM and RIPM-related scholarship includes numerous articles and essays on the structure, history, and impact of RIPM, published in journals such as Periodica Musica, Fontes Artis Musicae, and other musicology outlets.

External links
- Official RIPM website: ripm.org
- R-MusicProjects.org (related projects and resources)

In short, RIPM is a global initiative to index and provide full‑text access to long‑hidden music periodicals, helping researchers find and use music literature from the 18th through mid‑20th centuries, with ongoing updates and a specialized jazz periodicals collection.