bird® is a cloud-based reference; collection management; and public services application for subject selectors; collection strategists; public services librarians; as well as advanced students and post-doctoral scholarly research.

bird® is continuously updated, offering detailed profiles of 8,600+ commercial and Open Access research databases, representing over 2, 000 information publishers, organized by 178 academic departments and 34 format designations.

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.