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  ##  The RILM Engine of Music Discovery 

   [Infographic](/taxonomy/term/111)    | 12 December 2025  

 Discover how **RILM databases** accessed via EBSCOhost and EBSCO Discovery Service connect users to music research through search tools, filters, and full-text access.



  

 

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 ### The RILM Engine of Music Discovery

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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text (RAFT)

RILM Index to Scores and Collected Editions (RISE)

RILM Music Encyclopedias (RME)

### Available Search Options:

- Basic Search
- Advanced Search 
    - Proximity
    - Find all my search terms
    - Find any of my search terms
    - SmartText Searching
- Natural Language Search

### RILM Subject Expertise:

- Metadata and abstracts curated and written by RILM's global team
- RILM has earned UNESCO accreditation as a non-governmental organization (NGO) to provide advisory services to the Committee of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

### RAFT: RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text

- 298 full-text journals
- Scholarly articles
- Advertisements
- Correspondence
- Obituaries
- Reviews
- Editorials
- News items

### RISE: RILM Index to Scores and Collected Editions

- 557,270 works
- Detailed information on: 
    - Performing forces
    - Format
    - Language
    - Series
    - Genre
    - Publisher
    - Type of score

### RME: RILM Music Encyclopedias

- 72 Music Encyclopedias
- Important subject areas include: 
    - Popular music
    - Gospel
    - Opera
    - Recorded sound
    - Instruments
    - Women composers

### Controls &amp; Search Expanders

- Peer Reviewed
- Abstract Available
- Collected Works
- Full Text
- Main Records
- Review Records
- Publication Date
- Source Types
- Subject: Major Heading
- Subject
- Publication
- Language
- Apply equivalent subjects

### Discovery

Refined Results



 

  

 

#### Learn more about music resources from RILM



 

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