RILM Abstracts of Music Literature features as wealth of content covering traditional music, popular music and classical music. Updated monthly, the database includes coverage of relevant articles from thousands of journals.

In addition, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature covers a variety of publication and media types including essay collections, conference proceedings, critical editions of music, digital media, dissertations, monographs, online resources, reference materials, reviews, and technical drawings of instruments.

More than 200 journals from over 45 countries in 140 languages are available in full text, published from the early 20th century to the present.