diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9dd2f53283693b6e49818ade91cd3f5874a273ca..bccf0d187107bc66dbb377fed02ade5ec4a14bf6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -36,3 +36,14 @@ Getting Started
 
   See https://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB/wiki/Core-Properties for 
   the list of available workload properties.
+
+Building from source
+--------------------
+
+To build the full distribution, with all database bindings:
+
+    mvn clean package
+
+To build a single database binding:
+
+    mvn -pl com.yahoo.ycsb:mongodb-binding -am clean package
diff --git a/mongodb/README.md b/mongodb/README.md
index f6dd8f4c5dfa9c3f7adad5f87081e6aebe1392d3..0f7289d5ef1b0d965b32dce4260f7615ce842e28 100644
--- a/mongodb/README.md
+++ b/mongodb/README.md
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Download the YCSB zip file and compile:
 
     git clone git://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB.git
     cd YCSB
-    mvn -pl com.yahoo.ycsb:core,com.yahoo.ycsb:mongodb-binding clean package
+    mvn -pl com.yahoo.ycsb:mongodb-binding -am clean package
 
 ### 4. Run YCSB
 
diff --git a/redis/README.md b/redis/README.md
index fea4733d65b119d2bdbd393371a0d341dd2dee1b..d2ef806a950d0944fba47493e1b89b3dacedc572 100644
--- a/redis/README.md
+++ b/redis/README.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Git clone YCSB and compile:
 
     git clone http://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB.git
     cd YCSB
-    mvn -pl com.yahoo.ycsb:core,com.yahoo.ycsb:redis-binding clean package
+    mvn -pl com.yahoo.ycsb:redis-binding -am clean package
 
 ### 4. Provide Redis Connection Parameters
     
@@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ Load the data:
 Run the workload test:
 
     ./bin/ycsb run redis -s -P workloads/workloada > outputRun.txt
-    
+