agreement with titles and quoted words
The verb after a book title, headline, or word taken as a word.
A title takes a singular verb even when the words inside it look plural: Great Expectations is on the list. Cats is still running. A word used as a word is singular: Mice is the plural of mouse. Do not let the grammar inside the title govern the sentence around it.
Examples
Use The Birds was released in 1963.
Use Data is a four-letter word.
Avoid Great Expectations are on the list.