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Using RILM

One of the primary databases of scholarly works on music.

Overview

Here are the results of a search for "bernstein, leonard" narrowed down by language (English):

A list of search results in RILM.

Here is what the detailed view looks like for item number twenty:

An item in RILM.

In the menu on the left, "Linked Full Text" will take you to the full text for this item. This is ideal because it allows you to view the entire result from your computer, but this option is not available for all items. 

A full text result for Bernstein in RILM.

Another feature to note in the menu on the left is the red button that reads "Find @ UMD." Clicking on it performs a search in the catalog and returns the result for that item. From here you can perform tasks like check its availability in the library and request through interlibrary loan (ILL).

The result of clicking a "Find @UMD" button.