Paratext and Compendium Library Services announced an expanded three-level structure for bird®, a comprehensive guide to research databases.

Paratext is developing updated versions of Eight Centuries: 1160–1960; U.S. Masterfile: 1774–2026 and Reference Universe. What will not change is their identifiable provenance.

Paratext and our partners at Compendium are happy to announce new features now live within bird & nest.  

Craft a local bird knowledgebase

Managing your dB status between library colleagues is often challenging. To address this, a Notes feature has been added to each of the 9,441 bird dB profiles now online.

With the launch of nest, the holdings comparison suite of analytical tools built upon the bird platform, a full scholarly review was needed.

Paratext has deployed an enhanced version of nest, the library holdings reporting service integrated into bird: Base Inventory of Research Databases.

nest now allows users to create their own Library Groups.  This is a transformative application for collection strategy and management.

bird: Base Inventory of Research Databases also providers over 2,000 Open Access research databases. What does this mean to library specialists and advanced users?

A  year ago, Paratext launched bird: Base Inventory of Research Databases.   The response has been fantastic, and many libraries are now using it to make better decisions about their research database collection.   But a few questions lingered….

Paratext launched bird; Base Inventory of Research Databases last Tuesday at the Charleston Conference, and we were rather encouraged by the enthusiastic response from the attendees who saw it live.    Well, things got even better after the exhibits closed….

Ask any historian of early American history “what’s a Sanborn map?” and you’re likely to receive an earful….

Archival posts for Paratext will be appearing in this space soon, please stay tuned!