OD Announces Some Updates to its Marketplace

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Last week, OverDrive announced some enhancements to its titles display and some additions to its reports. RF is happy when vendors make platforms more robust. RF thanks OverDrive especially for working to make multiple/flexible models available when publishers offer them.

[Email from OverDrive}:

We recently improved the title details display in OverDrive Marketplace, making it easier to select the right content for your users and understand how your collection is being used. This new display helps you quickly see:

  • Purchasing options: An updated display of available lending models* and pricing help you identify the options that best meet the needs of your budget.
    *Note that CPC and SU remain separate from the One Copy/One User & Metered Access view.

  • Title metadata: A new grid outlines robust information, including ISBN, language, BISAC subject headings, and more.

  • Ownership information: An easy-to-read chart delivers a streamlined summary of a title’s copies, active holds, checkouts from the past year, most recent checkout date, and more.

  • Sale pricing: If a title is on sale, see the discounted price and sale end date before selecting a lending model. This visibility is new for Cost Per Circ (CPC) titles, and you can use the recently released scheduler to align CPC availability in your collection with the duration of the sale.

  • Pricing for weeded titles: If a title is currently weeded from your digital collection, the title details now displays current pricing and available lending models.

Title availability may vary by geographic region.

The updated display appears both in search results and on individual title details pages.

Based on valuable partner feedback, we’ve made the following additional updates:

  • To improve performance and load times when running popular reports, you can now select your criteria before the data loads and choose to export the results as a worksheet. This is particularly beneficial to partners running large reports. We also continue to work on behind-the-scenes improvements to enhance overall performance and load times.

  • You can now search the Checkouts and Weed collection reports by Reserve ID or Title ID.

  • When you export Checkouts or Title status & usage reports, the spreadsheet includes a BISAC subject headings column. This update is intended to support the needs of our partners who are working on diversity audits for their digital collection.