bird® is a cloud-based research and management application for library selectors, collection strategists, public services librarians, as well as graduate students and post-doctoral scholary research.

bird® is continuously updated, offering detailed profiles of 8,600+ commercial and Open Access research databases, representing over 1,900 information publishers, organized by 178 academic departments.

bird® is available as an institutional acquisition. For trial use, please visit here.

bird: Base Inventory of Research Databases® is a sole-source, proprietary application produced by Paratext, in technology partnership with Compendium Library Services.