About Us

Paratext, an independent publishing company, was founded in 1993. Paratext has offices in suburban Washington D.C and in Austin, Texas.

Paratext publishes bibliographic and full text databases for the academic, public and special libraries community in North America and throughout the world. Paratext databases are designed to help academic and public libraries work better, and maximize the use of existing holdings.

Paratext reference databases are both innovative and affordable for every size library.

Paratext databases regularly receive positive reviews from top library review periodicals, and can be found in use in libraries of every size and collection.

To contact Paratext administration about publishing initiatives, please visit our Contact page.