RIPM RECEIVES NEH GRANT

July 2009
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded RIPM a grant to prepare indexes of European twentieth-century and American music periodicals.

DEMONSTATION OF THE RIPM ONLINE ARCHIVE AND NEW INTERFACE

July 2009
RIPM presents a demonstration of the just-released RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals (ROA) and the RIPM-designed interface for the Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals at the annual conference of International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML) in Amsterdam.

RIPM RELEASES NEW INTERFACE FOR THE RETROSPECTIVE INDEX TO MUSIC PERIODICALS

June 2009
RIPM releases its own interface for the RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals, designed to function independently or as a single entity with the RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals. Both are available directly from RIPM, the first release containing 51 full-text periodicals.

THE RIPM ONLINE ARCHIVE OF MUSIC PERIODICALS RELEASED

May 2009
Updated every six months, the first installment contains 51 music periodicals from RIPM Publications and 50 music periodicals from EBSCO.

CREATION OF RIPM PUBLICATIONS

May 2009
RIPM becomes unique publishers and sole distributor of a newly designed interface for the RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals.

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BECOMES A RIPM PARTNER LIBRARY

May 2009
The Performing Arts Library of the New York Public Library becomes a RIPM Partner Library.

YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BECOMES A RIPM PARTNER LIBRARY

April 2009
The Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) becomes a RIPM Partner Library.

THE HARVARD MUSICAL ASSOCIATION BECOMES A PARTNER LIBRARY

February 2009
The Library of the Harvard Musical Association (Boston, Massachusetts) becomes a RIPM Partner Library.

FIRST DEMONSTATION OF THE FORTHCOMING FULL-TEXT SUPPLEMENT (FTS)

July 2008
RIPM presents the first public demonstration of the forthcoming Full-Text Supplement (FTS) at the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML) meeting in Naples, Italy.

NEH AWARDS SECOND MAJOR GRANT TO DIGITIZE THE RIPM ARCHIVE OF MUSIC PERIODICALS

July 2008
RIPM receives a second major award from The National Endowment for the Humanities for the digitization and online delivery of the RIPM Archive of Music Periodicals.

SIBLEY LIBRARY BECOMES A PARTNER LIBRARY

June 2008
The Sibley Library of the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, New York) becomes a RIPM Partner Library.

RIPM ANNOUNCES PARTNER AND PARTICIPATING LIBRARIES PROGRAM

June 2008
RIPM announces the creation of the Partner and Participating Libraries Program for the development of the RIPM Online Archive.

RIPM GROUP CREATED IN BRAZIL

April 2008
A RIPM group in Brazil (RIPM's fourth national group in Latin America) has been established with the support of the Programa de Pós-Graduaçao "Música em Contexto," Universidade de Brasilia, under the direction of Dr. Maria Alice Volpe.

RIPM RECEIVES GRANT FROM THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION

April 2008
RIPM receives a two-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for work on nineteenth-century British music journals.

SECOND RIPM GROUP CREATED IN SPAIN

March 2008
A new RIPM group in Spain has been established at the Universitat de Lleida, under the direction of Dr. Màrius Bernadó.

RIPM GROUP CREATED IN ARGENTINA

November 2007
A RIPM group in Argentina (RIPM's third national group in Latin America) has been established with the support of the Instituto de Investigación Musicológica "Carlos Vega," Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina de Buenos Aires, under the direction of Diana Fernández Calvo.

RIPM GROUP CREATED IN GREECE

August 2007
A RIPM group in Greece has been established with the support of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, under the direction of Dr. Katy Romanou.

RIPM GROUP CREATED IN CHILE

January 2007
A RIPM group in Chile (RIPM's second national group in Latin America) has been established with the support of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparíso.

RIPM’S TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY

In 2006 RIPM will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary, the publication of its 200th volume, a database containing 500,000+ annotated records, and the birth of the RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals (full text).

RIPM TO OFFER FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF ITS ONLINE ARCHIVE OF MUSIC PERIODICALS

July 2006
At a joint meeting of the International Musicological Society and the International Association of Music Libraries in Gothenburg Sweden, RIPM will present the first live demonstration of the RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals, accessed through the RIPM Online database.

RIPM RECEIVES SECOND GRANT FROM THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION

June 2006
RIPM receives a two-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for work on nineteenth-century German music journals.

NEH GRANT RECEIVED TO DIGITIZE RIPM ARCHIVE OF MUSIC PERIODICALS

April 2006
RIPM receives major award from The National Endowment for the Humanities for the digitization and online delivery of the RIPM Archive of Music Periodicals. The images will be browsable and searchable through the RIPM Online database.

RIPM'S FIRST LATIN AMERICAN GROUP CREATED IN MEXICO

March 2006
RIPM activities in Mexico will be undertaken at the Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Musical "Carlos Chávez" (Cenidim) del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA).

RIPM GROUP CREATED IN BULGARIA

March 2006
A new RIPM group has been created in Sofia at two collaborating institutes of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, and the Institute of Art Studies.

A NEW RIPM COLLABORATION ESTABLISHED IN ITALY WITH THE UNIVERSITÀ DI TORINO

December 2005
The Università di Torino (Dipartimento di discipline artistiche, musicali e dello spettacolo) signs an agreement to increase the number of Italian music journals treated in RIPM. This initiative was organized under the direction of Professor Alberto Rizzuti.

AN INTER-UNIVERSITY RIPM GROUP ESTABLISHED IN SPAIN

November 2005
The Universidad de Granada and the Universidad de Oviedo will jointly sponsor the creation of a new Spanish RIPM group, directed respectively by Dr. Franciso J. Giménez and by Dr. Ramón Sobrino.

A POST-DOCTORAL RIPM FELLOWSHIP CREATED AT THE UNIVERSITÀ DI PERUGIA (ITALY)

November 2005
The Sezione di Musicologia of the Dipartimento di Scienze Linguistiche, Università di Perugia (Italy) announces the appointment of a post-doctoral fellow to undertake RIPM work in Italy. This initiative was organized under the direction of Professor Biancamaria Brumana.

OVID-SILVER PLATTER BECOMES A RIPM PUBLISHING PARTNER

October 2005
Ovid-Silver Platter becomes RIPM’s fourth publishing partner, joining EBSCO, NISC and OCLC for the distribution of RIPM Online.

RIPM LAUNCHES “AMERICAS INITIATIVE”

October 2005
RIPM begins an “Americas Initiative,” aimed at adding a significant number of U.S. and Latin American music periodicals to the collection. Sessions focusing on this undertaking were presented at the 2006 conferences of the Music Library Association and the Society for American Music.

RIPM RECEIVES RENEWED SUPPORT FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES (NEH)

July 2005
This two-year NEH grant will permit RIPM to produce at least twelve volumes and the equivalent electronic data treating twentieth-century music journals that ceased publication before 1950. The initial NEH grant for work on twentieth-century music journals was awarded for the period July 2003-June 2005, and resulted in the publication of twelve volumes.

A NEW NATIONAL RIPM GROUP CREATED IN BELGIUM

July 2005
RIPM activities, under the direction of Dr. Johan Eeckeloo, have been undertaken in Brussels at The Koninklijk Conservatorium.

RIPM PUBLISHES ITS FIRST CANADIAN VOLUME

June 2005
The Canadian Journal of Music 1914-1919, prepared by Kathleen McMorrow at the University of Toronto.

EBSCO BECOMES A RIPM PUBLISHING PARTNER

May 2005
EBSCO becomes RIPM’s third publishing partner, joining NISC and OCLC for the distribution of RIPM Online.

RIPM SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH IMAGE ACCESS-BSCAN

July 2004
Image Access, a well-known software development company, will work with RIPM to produce the software and viewer interface for RIPM’s Online Archive of Music Periodicals, that will be searchable and browsable through RIPM Online.

NEW RIPM GROUP CREATED IN QUÉBEC

June 2004
A new RIPM group has been created at the Université de Montréal (Québec) under the direction of Professor Michel Duchesneau.

RIPM RECEIVES GRANT FROM THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION

March 2004
RIPM receives a two-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for work on nineteenth-century British music journals.

RILM AND RIPM COLLABORATION

January 2004
Searchable simultaneously through a number of vendors, RIPM and RILM agree to coordinate their work both by individually offering access to complete runs of journals, and by seeking to offer seamless access to over two centuries of music periodical literature from the late eighteenth century to the present.