The Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale (RIPM) was established in 1980 to provide access to eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century periodical literature dealing with music and to facilitate and encourage research based on this often neglected documentary resource. RIPM represents the first effort to undertake and to coordinate retrospective periodical indexing on an international scale.
RIPM produces four principal publications. With more than one million records, the RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals is an annotated database of music periodical literature from ca. 1750 and 1966. The RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text supplies scanned copies of journals found in the RIPM Index. The RIPM Preservation Series provides full text copies of journals not yet found in the RIPM Index. Finally, RIPM Jazz Periodicals contains a large and growing number of jazz periodicals published across the twentieth century. In total, RIPM provides access to some two million full text pages and nearly one and half million citation records.
RIPM functions under the auspices of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) and the International Musicological Society (IMS).
