They are all as current as the printed version, but they only go back to 1969. Ask at the service desk for the disc. To use RILM Abstracts via the World Wide Web, you must either be on campus, or be able to open a Netscape session through your Rice account. CD-ROM, WWWeb IIMP is a newly produced database that covers more recently published articles. Coverage is from 1996-within two to three months of the present.
Articles cited include a brief summary.
IIMP also includes full indexing of 40 of the most important music journals from the time of their first issue, but these citations do not include summaries. The CD-ROM is available at the service desk in the Brown Fine Arts Library. To use IIMP via the World Wide Web, you must either be on campus, or be able to open a Netscape session through your Rice account.