IMSLP:Contributor Portal

Welcome to the IMSLP Contributor Portal!

This page is the central place to learn about contributing to the International Music Score Library Project.
For questions, or to discuss with other community members, visit the IMSLP Forums.

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• Contributing

Getting Started

• Create an account
• Tutorial — learn the basics of using the site
• How to Submit a Score or Recording
• Copyright Made Simple — Mandatory reading.

• Community Projects

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Current projects:

• The Sibley Mirroring Project (Please join in!)
• The Gaylord Acquisition Project
• Acquisition of the MIT archive
• Scanning of scores from the Cook Score Project
• Adding the public domain portion of the Neue Mozart Ausgabe
• The Xian Xinghai Project
• The DKB (Det Kongelige Bibliotek) Mirroring Project
• The IMSLP:Community Projects/Irwin Collection Project

• Resources

• User scanning queue: Check what other users are working on, and post what you will scan to avoid redundancies.
• Wishlist: What you and others are requesting.
• Other music score websites
• Used sheet music stores
• Info on file formats
• Typesetting Guidelines: for those who are creating new typesets

• Community

• IMSLP Forums: our central place for all news and discussions.
• Use the Babel and Instrument templates to tell others what languages you speak, what instruments you play and to find other users.

• Other Ways to Contribute

You can help improve IMSLP in lots of ways!

• Maintenance: Regular maintenance of the IMSLP website.
• Mirroring: Hosting a server that mirrors portions or all of IMSLP's file archive.
• Development: Function, design, and wiki software.
• Score searching: Importing from music score websites.
• Translation: Help translate IMSLP into other languages.
• Linking across projects: Linking to/from Wikipedia and others.

• Handy Admin Tools

• Administrator policy
• Copyright Reviewer guidelines
• Public Domain Tools - the long, historic version
• United States Copyright Law - great new guide

• References

• Public domain — Detailed information on copyright laws
• Music Publishers — Reference about music publishers
• Orchestrators, Arrangers and Editors — Biographies
• Writers, Lyricists and Translators — Biographies (vocal works)