RIPM Jazz Periodicals database available at the Uniarts Helsinki

The library provides access to RIPM Jazz periodicals: Music, History and Culture database for the year 2026.

RIPM Jazz Periodicals provides access to jazz history through more than 100 (138) magazines from the early 20th century to the early 21st century. The database includes articles, reviews, advertisements, and illustrations from historical jazz magazines such as Down Beat, The Grackle, The Jazz Review, and Jazzbeat. The material is based on the unique and extensive collection of the IJS (Institute of Jazz Studies) at Rutgers University.

You can access the database with your Uniarts credentials via the library’s Databases and e-resources page, i.e. the database list.

In addition to RIPM Jazz Periodicals, there were no other changes to the library’s database subscriptions for 2026.

All library databases and other online services can be found from the database list.

Feedback on e-materials and acquisition proposals

Please send us your feedback about databases and e-materials by using the feedback form or sending email: lib@uniarts.fi.

The library is taking new databases for trial use throughout the year. New databases can also be suggested to the library using the acquisition proposal form.

Trial use means that the library provides for Uniarts students and staff temporary access to a non-open-access database or electronic material. Feedback from users affects whether the database is acquired for use for the university.

If the decision is made to acquire the database, it will be in use from the beginning of the coming year. Database purchases are not made in the middle of the year.

The decision for the new databases for the following year will be made at the end of the previous year. The decisions are influenced by, among other things, the material appropriations received by the library from the University, the library’s collection policy, feedback and usage statistics received from trial uses.