Elevate Your Library

Always Ahead of the Curve

Efficient library leaders routinely turn to bird® before engaging in discipline-focused discussions with faculty, seeking out new resources to support university priorities, utilizing data to inform strategic choices about resource allocation, and identifying opportunities to showcase the library’s unique collection and contributions to the institution.

Maximize Impact through Benchmarking

With bird® assessing your collection is both quick and accurate. Continually updated resource profiles and metadata helps libraries be proactive in spotting new collections and emerging trends across disciplines. It improves library return-on-investment (ROI) by streamlining the research usually required to gain awareness of the full breadth of resources available.

Libraries using nest® with bird® gain even greater advantage by comparing their holdings against peer institutions or consortia organizations.

Anticipate needs with improved intelligence.

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Knowledge  at  Your  Command

Developed by research librarians, bird® gives    selectors, collection strategists, graduate and post-doctoral researchers a comprehensive analysis of 8,600+ commercial and Open Access resources, spanning hundreds of disciplines. It’s the thorough research needed to make the best-informed recommendations.

Confidence  at  Your  Core

bird® delivers the authoritative, accurate, and up-to-date intelligence, empowering you to dig deeper and make discerning choices across all subject areas — even those outside your specialized knowledge.

Unlock Your Collection’s Potential

Collection Planning Simplified

With bird®, collection leaders are always up-to-date on new resources supporting their priority disciplines. Whether evaluating a faculty request, preparing for a vendor meeting, or checking for collection gaps, bird® delivers the advantage.

Current, Reliable Data for Informed Decision Making

Updated daily, bird® streamlines the tedious research effort that usually accompanies collection management. It matches to your local database collection, so you see library holdings alongside other available commercial and open access resources. Extensive metadata, resource descriptions, and supplier details make it easy to uncover the information needed to learn more.

Unprecedented Holdings Intelligence

Plus, libraries that also subscribe to nest® can check if a resource is commonly held among IPEDS peer institutions, in ARL collections, or accessible through popular library consortia like the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and Lyrasis®. Make recommendations and defend budget requests quickly and confidently.

How was bird® developed?

Editorial analysis of began in 2021. After deduplicating, normalizing, and removing out-of-scope titles from our initial lists, the bird® founding team identified approximately 8,500+ unique research database titles.

The editorial team, which consist entirely of experienced research librarians at the college and ARL level, is continually engaged in discovering new titles, titles that are available but no longer updated as well as titles that have ceased publication.

The content within bird® reflects U.S. academic interests. The number of titles by academic disciplines show the popularity of career-focused departments (such as business/economics, engineering, medicine, public health, law, and nursing), as well as the demand for liberal arts and social science materials.

A detailed editorial policy is available to all libraries with trial access to bird®.

With bird® you’re always the expert.

The collection insights you need to lead.

CONTENT PRICING NEWS

New for 2025!

Paratext announces nest®, a new groundbreaking suite of comparative library analytics built upon the platform of bird®.

nest® elevates collection insights by comparing your library’s holdings with other libraries—consortia members, IPEDS peers, FTE, Carnegie Classi cation and even special libraries you wish to evaluate.

With nest®, library directors, collection strategists and subject selectors have broader context to measure progress, spot emerging trends, identify duplication, and refine library budget decisions.

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