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The article provides updates on the Repertoire International de la presse Musicale (RIPM). It mentions that the approaching RIPM Archive was presented during the two session of the Congress. It notes that the first Archive will be released in 2009 and its beta testing will commence before the end of 2008. It also mentions that the RIPM Full-Text Supplement will be available on year after the RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals is available. In addition, there are four RIPM groups created in Latin America located specifically in Argentina, Greece, Brazil, and Chile. RIPM also received grants from National Endowment for the Humanities for the development of the RIPM Online Archive and from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the works on the 20th century British journals.

The article reports on the developments of the Repertoire international de la presse musicale (RIPM). Its RIPM Online and on CD-ROM database has grown to 475,000 annotated citations. A major grant from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities has just been received by RIPM for work on twentieth-century music journals. In 2005, EBSCO has joined as publisher of RIPM Online. The 25th anniversary of RIPM will be celebrated in July 2006.