What's New?
International Index to Music Periodicals is updated with new content every month; this page highlights new feature enhancements and new journals added.
New Index Titles
January 2012
Three titles have been added to IIMP: the String Research Journal, which is the journal of the American String Teachers Association, Sangeet Natak, the journal of the Sangeet Natak Akademi (India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama), and Perfect Beat (Equinox Publishing), which originates from the Department of Contemporary Music Studies at Macquarie University, Australia, and focuses on both historical and contemporary popular music styles of the indigenous peoples of the ‘Pacific rim’.
New Index and Full Text Titles
January 2012
Three new full-text titles have been added to IIMP Full Text this month, adding greater depth to the database's coverage of current popular genres, classical music scholarship and music pedagogy. Spin is a monthly consumer magazine well known for its intelligent and eclectic coverage of mainstream and independent popular music in all genres, together with comprehensive reviews of new releases and features on social and political issues; Nineteenth-Century Music Review, from Cambridge University Press, publishes scholarly articles which locate music within the wider culture of the ‘long’ nineteenth century (1780s to 1920s); and the MTNA e-Journal is the peer-reviewed journal of the Music Teachers National Association, which publishes in-depth scholarly articles on research into music teaching. Spin was already available as an index-only title for IIMP subscribers, but the other two new titles are completely new to IIMP and IIMP Full Text.
New Index Title
July 2011
IIMP now offers new indexing for one new title; Struti. India's premiere magazine for performing arts, Struti aims to preserve valued traditions and encourage innovation in regard to Indian music and dance.
New Index Title
June 2011
This release sees the addition of one new index title in IIMP: Boletín Música. Published by the Casa de las Américas, this journal specializes in Latin American music and musicology.
New Index and Full-Text Title
June 2011
With this release we have added one new index and full-text title in Australian Journal of Music Education. This journal, published by the Australian Society for Music Education, publishes articles that enhance knowledge regarding the teaching and learning of music with a special interest toward the Australian music education community. This may include articles that report results of quantitative or qualitative research studies, summarize bodies of research, present theories, models, or philosophical positions.
New Index and Full-Text Title
May 2011
This release sees the addition of one new title available for the first time with index records and in full-text. Hellenic Journal of Music, Education and Culture is a recently launched peer reviewed journal devoted to the critical study and analysis of issues relating to the broad and inclusive topics of music teaching, learning and their cultural aspects.
Journal name change
November 2010
Folk Roots has changed name, and is now known as FRoots. Index coverage is available in IIMP.
Content changes
November 2010
We have added one new journal with index and full-text coverage to IIMP and IIMP Full Text: Sound Post presents Scandinavian folk music and dance with emphasis on the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle.
Please note, that due to a change in publisher, the following titles have ceased full-text coverage: Journal of Research in Music Education; Teaching Music; General Music Today; Update : The Applications of Research in Music Education; Journal of Music Teacher Education : JMTE; Music Educators Journal. We will continue to index these titles, and full-text backfile will remain in the database.
New Index and Full-Text Titles
October 2010
This release sees one new full text title: La Tribune de l'Orgue, previously available with index only coverage, is now available to subscribers to IIMP Full Text. In addition, we have added indexing for Bach Notes, published by the American Bach Society, to IIMP.
New Full-Text Titles
September 2010
Musica, Tecnologia is newly indexed in IIMP and is also available in full text for subscribers to IIMP Full Text. This Italian language title explores the relationship between the music business and the world of technology.
IIMP Full Text subscribers can now access the full text of the Spanish journal Revista Electrónica Complutense de Investigación en Educación Musical. This publication includes research reports and book and conference reviews. It covers all aspects of music education in schools, professional conservatories, universities, orchestras, and in the community (choirs, bands, folk groups), as well as music therapy and experimental work in cognition.
Journal name change
September 2010
Chelys - The Journal of the Viola Da Gamba Society, has changed name, and is now known as The Viola da Gamba Society Journal. Index coverage is available in IIMP.
New Full-Text Titles
August 2010
IIMP Full Text now includes full text for two titles which were previously index only, with selective coverage: Utne Reader, which covers independent ideas and alternative culture, with coverage of popular music reviews and criticism; and The Word, which was voted the UK's 'Music Magazine of the Year' in 2007 and 2008. Also new is selective coverage in IIMP and IIMP Full Text of music-related material from Eighteenth Century Studies, the journal of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Please note that due to a publisher agreement change, 5 titles from Oxford University Press have been removed from IIMP Full Text in this update.
New Index Title
July 2010
This release sees one new index title in IIMP: International Piano. This title now incorporates International Piano and Piano magazine.
New Index and Full-Text Titles
June 2010
This release sees seven new titles in both IIMP and IIMP Full Text.
In keeping with IIMP's aim of covering the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music from scholarly, trade, and popular music journals, we have added: EQ, which covers recording and sound studio techniques; Professional Sound which also covers recording, as well as live sound, broadcast, post production, sound contracting, AV production, and multimedia; Remix, which contains in-depth interviews with major personalities in the DJ/remix scene with a major focus on studio production and performance styles, and Music Week, a UK trade publication, offering music industry and retail news.
Other new titles include Choral Director, which gives practical articles and profiles focusing on producing creative educational performances as well as recruitment, retention, travel, and fundraising, School Band and Orchestra, and Musical Merchandise Review.
We are also providing selective indexing and full text coverage of relevant articles from Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society.
New content
May 2010
We have added indexing and full text for Word and Music Studies. The series is produced by the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). The publication aims to provide an international forum for musicologists and literary scholars with an interest in interart/intermedial studies. Also new in IIMP is selective indexing for Current Biography, which presents lively biographical information for major contemporary figures in the music world.
New Index and Full-Text Titles
May 2010
We're pleased to announce that American Harp Journal, previously available only with index coverage, is now available for IIMP Full Text subscribers. The journal includes biographies of major figures of the past and present, bibliographies, historical studies, listings of publications and recordings, articles of educational content for students and teachers, and articles concerning construction and maintenance of the harp.
Other new titles, available with index and full text coverage, are Canadian Journal of Music Therapy, which covers the therapeutic application of music for clients and patients and serves children with disabilities, including emotional behavior delays, individuals with psychiatric diagnoses, and the elderly, and Words & Music, which contains information about Canadian music composers, songwriters, music publishers, royalty and copyright updates, music workshops and competitions.
New Full-Text Titles
April 2010
New titles in IIMP and IIMP Full Text include Music, Sound, and the Moving Image and The Sondheim Review. Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, published by Liverpool University Press, is the first international scholarly journal devoted to the study of the interaction between music and sound within the entirety of moving image media including film, television, music video, advertising, computer games, mixed-media installation and digital art. Subscribers to IIMP Full Text will also be able to access articles in Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, previously available with abstract and index coverage only.
Please note Canadian Journal for Traditional Music / La Revue de musique folklorique canadienne has changed name and is now known as MUSICultures. This annual peer-reviewed journal includes scholarly articles pertaining to Canadian, global, and transnational music and continues to be available in full-text from 2002 onwards.
New Index Titles
March 2010
IIMP now offers new indexing for one new title; The Word. Launched in 2003 and voted the UK's 'Music Magazine of the Year' in 2007 and 2008, The Word is now indexed from the February 2010 issue onwards.
New Content
March 2010
We are pleased to announce the inclusion of a new title in both IIMP and IIMP Full Text. Canadian Winds: The Journal of the Canadian Band Association features in this release with index records and full text available from the first issue in 2002 onwards. One previously indexed only journal, Mixmag, covering the British dance and clubbing scene, is now available in full text for subscribers to IIMP Full Text.
New Index Titles
February 2010
IIMP now offers indexing for two new titles; Clavier Companion, formed by the merger of Clavier (already a full text IIMP title) and Keyboard Companion, is available from the first issue onwards. This release also sees the addition of indexed records from Revista Electrónica Complutense de Investigación en Educación Musical, a Spanish language journal dealing with all aspects of the teaching of music.
New Content
November 2009
We are pleased to announce the inclusion of a new title in both IIMP and IIMP Full Text. JAZZed: Practical Ideas & Techniques For Jazz Educators, published by Symphony Publishing Group, has index records and full text available from July 2009 onwards.
New Content
October 2009
For subscribers of IIMP Full Text, one title that was previously index only has now had full text added. Popular Music is published by Cambridge University Press and full text is now available for issues published from January 2001 onwards. In addition, one new index title has been added to IIMP and IIMP Full Text this month. International Arts Manager, indexed from October 2004 onwards, covers news and features relating to the performing arts and was absorbed by Gig in 2006.
New full text title
September 2009
Subscribers to IIMP Full Text can access one new title this release. Organised Sound which covers the subject of music theory and technology and is published by Cambridge University Press, has been indexed in IIMP from volume 1, issue 1 (1996) and the full text added as part of this release is from 2001 onwards.
New content
July 2009
IIMP now offers indexing for the clubbing and dance title Mixmag from issue 215 (April 2009) onwards. In addition, full text has been added to Flutist Quarterly for IIMP Full Text subscribers this month.
New index title
July 2009
One new title has been indexed in IIMP for this release. Musicaenclave, a Spanish-language Venezuelan title has been indexed from first issue (September-December 2007) to present and contains detailed abstracts written in English plus English translated titles.
New index and full text title
June 2009
The Beat journal which covers reggae, African, Caribbean and world music has now been added as an index and full text title to IIMP. Four issues are available in this release from 2008 onwards.
New full text titles
May 2009
Three titles that were previously index-only have been added to IIMP Full Text this month. These are the Cambridge University Press title Tempo, Lied und Populäre Kultur/Song and Popular Culture published by Waxmann Publishing and Banjo Newsletter from Banjo Newsletter, Inc.
New index title
April 2009
One new title has been added to IIMP this month. Music in Art - International Journal for Music Iconography is published by the City University of New York, Research Center for Music Iconography and is indexed from 2008.
New Content
April 2009
One new index title has been added to IIMP this month, JMI - The Journal of Music in Ireland has been added from first issue in 2000. In addition, for those subscribers to IIMP Full Text, three titles that were previously index only have now had full text added. These are Fontes Artis Musicae (indexed from first issue in 1954, full text available from 2007), and the Cambridge University Press titles Plainsong and Medieval Music (indexed from first issue in 1978, full text available from 2001 to 2007) and Twentieth Century Music (indexed from first issue March 2004, full text from March 2008).
New Content
March 2009
Full text has been added to two previously index-only titles bringing the total number of journals with full text to 135. The new titles are The Journal of the Indian Musicological Society and The Journal of the Viola da Gamba Society of America. In addition, both the index and the full text content for existing titles have been updated as part of this release.
March 2009
As well as new index content for existing titles, one brand new index title Lied und populäre Kultur/Song and Popular Culture has been added to IIMP this month bringing the number of titles to 445. Issues are indexed from 2002 (vol 42) to present and articles are in English or German. For IIMP Full Text subscribers we have added full text for one existing index only title Early Keyboard Journal.
New Content
January 2009
Three new index titles, The Orff Echo from 2007, TRANS -Transcultural Music Review from first issue (June 1995) and Gig from 2006 have been added to IIMP this month bringing the total number of indexed titles to 445. For those customers who also subscribe to the full text version of IIMP we have added Archiv für Musikwissenschaft in full text. This title is indexed from first issue in 1899 and full text starts from 2008.
New content
November 2008
One new journal has been added to IIMP Full Text this month. The Beethoven Journal published by San Jose State University was already indexed by IIMP from its first issue (1986) under the title of The Beethoven Newsletter. Full text coverage for this title is now available from Summer 2001 to present.
New Naxos Composer Linking
October 2008
New to this release of IIMP is the addition of hundreds of new Naxos Music Library composer links. Mutual customers will be able to see these links in their IIMP Quick Search results or by using the Browse Reference page. Clicking the link opens the composer page in Naxos Music Library enabling the user to browse and listen to a complete list of the composer's work.
Following the upgrade to Naxos Music Library II there is a change to the authentication method of linking from IIMP to Naxos. This has been implemented to improve security between the sites and to help libraries track usage. For further information go to the Customization page in IIMP or contact Naxos at customer.service@naxos.com.
New content
August 2008
One new journal has been added to IIMP this month. The Journal of the Society for American Music from Cambridge University Press is also available in full text from first issue (Feb 2007) for those institutions with a subscription to IIMP Full Text.
New content
April 2008
Every month, IIMP and IIMP Full Text are updated with new citation records and full text articles. There are now over 700,000 citation records from articles found in 442 titles. In addition, customers who subscribe to the full text version of IIMP will see 124 journals are now available to search and browse in full text.
Email alerts
April 2008
Users of IIMP can now chose to receive a customized email update when articles and journals are available in the service. Users can select to be alerted when a journal has a new issue added or have their search run again every time new content is available. To set up alerts, simply click on the 'Set up alert' link on the right hand toolbar of the search results.
Updates to the title spreadsheet
April 2008
We have made some additions to the IIMP title spreadsheet in order to help librarians and users to evaluate the contents of the database. We now include subjects covered for all titles so that it is easy to see the wide range of subject coverage of IIMP. We also indicate when a title has been selectively indexed. More information about selective indexing is available here.
New design and functionality now live!
July 2007
The International Index to Music Periodicals has a new look - and vastly improved functionality. We invite you to explore the site to discover the new features. Here are some highlights:
- To get an overview of the main areas of the resource, view the product demo.
- On the Search Articles page, you can now limit keyword searches to citations only or to article full text only in order to perform more focused searches. Results can be sorted by relevance, oldest or most recent record first, and alphabetically by journal title. Sophisticated filters make it easy to narrow down the results and find relevant entries.
- To save records and searches for future use, create a My Archive profile. You can log in at any time to add or delete items.
- Subscribe to RSS feeds in the What's New area to receive regular product updates, such as information about new journals and functionality.
We hope you enjoy the improvements we have made, and we welcome your feedback. Please tell us what you think by filling out a form on the Contact Us page.
Improved design and functionality coming in July
June 2007
The International Index to Music Periodicals is undergoing an upgrade. The new interface will feature many significant improvements:
- Switch to the FAST platform to enable faster and more powerful searches.
- Instant filtering and sorting of results.
- Addition of My Archive to allow users to save searches and records for future reference.
- Ability to limit keyword searches to citations only to obtain targeted results.
- Ability to browse reference resources, including Naxos links.
- RSS feeds.
Watch out for these exciting features and a new design in mid-July!
To see how the new interface will work, you can view the demo for the Music & Performing Arts Online portal. This portal facilitates the cross-searching of the International Index to Music Periodicals and the International Index to Performing Arts and will have the same functionality as IIMP.
New content added
June 2007
IIMP now features a new indexed title from Israel: Min-ad: Israel Studies in Musicology Online. In addition, a special issue of Social and Economic Studies that focuses on Caribbean music has been added. Note that the publication formerly titled Informazioni e Studi Vivaldiani can now be found under the name Studi Vivaldiani.
New content added
March 2007
Two additional journals are now being indexed in IIMP-The Mountain Lake Reader and Klasse Musik-bringing the total number of indexed titles up to 436. IIMP offers access to over 590,000 records, with an extensive backfile of over 236,000 citations from 1874 to 1996. In addition, more than 40 titles are indexed from the first issue to the current or last issue published. New content continues to be added every month.
Naxos Music Library (NML) linking
November 2006
The first implementation of linking is now available for subscribers of Naxos Music Library and International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP). Subscribers of Naxos Music Library may request the enablement of these links, which direct users from IIMP records with subject terms of the linked composer names into Naxos Music Library composer pages, which list the available Naxos music files for those composers. In this initial implementation, we have used the Naxos composer category to establish these links with IIMP. By using this composer category, linking is currently enabled for over 955 composers. The implementation will be expanded in future releases to include more categories and deeper, more direct links into Naxos music files. To request the linking, please go to the Librarians' Resources section, Outbound Linking.
Naxos reference material in full text plus Naxos audio file pronunciation guides
November 2006
IIMP has a new reference area which contains a glossary, opera synopses and music fundamental terms all published by Naxos. In addition, there are hundreds of Naxos audio pronunciation guides covering composer names, works and artists. The reference content is cross-searchable with the index using the Quick Search feature which is available on every page of the site. Alternatively, users can limit their searching to the reference works by clicking the 'Search Reference' link from the home page or left hand toolbar.
New titles
November 2006
IIMP is updated with new content every month. This resource now gives access to a total of 433 titles, with coverage from as early as 1874. IIMP's coverage has expanded to include over 563,000 records, with an extensive backfile of over 233,000 citations from 1874 to 1996. In addition, there are over 40 titles which are indexed from the first issue to current or last issue published. New titles added recently include The Australian Journal of Music Therapy, Cariso! The Newsletter of the Alton Augustus Adams Music Research Institute; and Leonardo Music Journal.
Improved navigation on Browse Journals
November 2006
IIMP now offers one A-Z page in order to facilitate browsing. Users can simply click on the hyperlinked letter at the top of the Browse Journals page in order to go straight to the list of journal titles beginning with that letter.
New citation field
November 2006
IIMP now displays an E-journals field in the full bibliographic records which contains a link direct to the relevant article when it is available on an online publisher's own website.
Naxos and IIMP
June 2006
In Autumn 2006, mutual subscribers of IIMP and Naxos Music Library will be able to link from journal records in IIMP to composer pages in Naxos in order to listen to relevant audio files.
Additionally, Naxos reference material will be available to cross-search within IIMP. Researchers will be able to search for key music terms, composers, orchestras and works and find both reference and critical articles on their search terms.
New journals
June 2006
Four new journals have been indexed in IIMP bringing the total to 430. These are Australasian Music Research, Context, Música Hodie and NME - New Musical Express.
