diff --git a/readme.txt b/readme.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c46320a6d62d96c3326082d3e52e5b9af38578e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/readme.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+This folder contains the Visual Studio solutions to build static or DLL win64 
+bzip2
+
+See bzip2.org for details
+
+License for bzip2 and these files is in license.txt
+
+This is for the AITP and NCDM projects from https://git-bioimage.coe.drexel.edu
+
+References:
+
+A.R.Cohen and P.M.B. Vitanyi, "Normalized Compression Distance of Multisets 
+with Applications," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
+2014. In Press. Also arXiv:1212.571
+
+A.R. Cohen, C. Bjornsson, S. Temple, G. Banker,  and B. Roysam, 
+"Automatic Summarization of Changes in Biological Image  Sequences 
+using Algorithmic Information Theory".  IEEE Transactions on Pattern 
+Analysis  and Machine Intelligence, 2009. 31(8): p.  1386-1
+
+questions: acohen 'at' coe.drexel.edu
+