Where to publish collections on your OverDrive site
If you're using the classic OverDrive experience, your publishing locations work a little differently.
Learn about publishing locations for the classic OverDrive experience.
You can choose where curated and automated collections appear on your OverDrive site. Collections can be added to your home page, the Collections section of your site, any eReading Rooms you have, or all three locations.
Regardless of where you publish them, each published collection has a unique URL that you can share on your main website or through social media.
Your home page can highlight popular, eye-catching content to capture users' attention so they continue to browse and borrow. Rotating your home page collections frequently will keep returning users engaged.
The featured collection at the top of your home page can highlight a single title (for a community reads program, for example) or a larger curated collection. All other collections must contain at least three titles.
In the Collections section of your OverDrive site, you can have up to 4 categories to group similar collections together. By default, categories are organized by format, but you can contact your Account Manager (whose contact information is listed under the Marketplace Support tab) to edit, add, or remove your categories.
Here are some example categories:
- Read it now (display curated and/or automated collections that have availability filters set to "show only available")
- Languages (display automated collections filtered by language)
- Seasonal (display curated collections for seasonal celebrations, food, or traditions)
- Staff recommendations (display curated collections of staff picks, plus one low-circulating automated collection)
An eReading Room is a section of your OverDrive site dedicated to a certain audience, format, language, or subject. eReading Rooms are styled differently than the main collection and filter out titles that don't fit the room's criteria (for example, a Kids eReading Room filters out mature titles). Each eReading Room has its own featured collection at the top to highlight one or more titles, and an unlimited number of collections published below.
By default, you'll find links to your eReading Rooms in your site menu (on small screens) or in the "Special" section of your Collections menu (on larger screens). If you'd like, your Account Manager can also add eReading Room links to the header of your site.
To add or edit eReading Rooms, contact your Account Manager (whose information can be found under the Support tab in Marketplace).
Library sites
Home page
- There are 6 total spaces for collections on your home page.
- Your Account Manager may fill the first 3 spaces with automated collections (like "Most Popular" or "New Additions").
- You can publish curated collections to the last 3 spaces using the "Home page + Featured Collections" slots under the "Main Site" drop-down.
- If your Account Manager filled any of the last 3 spaces with automated collections, they will be overwritten when you publish curated collections.
Featured Collections & All Collections
- Curated collections published to the home page will automatically appear in the Featured Collections list in your site's Menu.
- You can publish an additional curated collection directly to the Featured Collections list (for a total of 4 featured collections) using the "Featured Collections 004" slot under the "Main Site" drop-down.
- If you don't have 4 curated collections in the Featured Collections list, automated collections will fill in any empty slots.
- Any curated collections in the Featured Collections list will also appear on the All Collections page.
- You can publish up to 8 additional curated collections to the All Collections page using the remaining "Featured Collections" slots.
- All automated collections will also display in the All Collections page, above any curated collections.
eReading Rooms
- If your library has eReading Rooms, you can publish collections to them separately from your main site.
- You can publish up to 5 curated collections on each room's home page, and up to 100 more in the room's Collections menu.
School sites
Home page
- You can publish up to 5 curated collections on your home page using the "Main home page" drop-down.
- Up to 5 automated collections (created by your Account Manager) may also appear on the home page.
- Automated collections will display below your published curated collections.
Collections menu
- You can publish up to 100 collections to your Collections menu using the "Main collections menu" drop-down.
- If you publish 6 or more curated collections to this menu, the Collections header on your site will be a button that takes you to a page with all of your curated collections.
- If you publish 5 or fewer curated collections to this menu, the Collections header on your site will be a drop-down menu that also includes your automated collections.
Curriculum menu
- You can publish up to 100 collections to an optional Curriculum menu using the "Main curriculum menu" drop-down.
- If you don't publish any collections to your Curriculum menu, it won't appear.
eReading Rooms
- If your school has eReading Rooms, you can publish collections to them separately from your main site.
- Each eReading Room has its own home page, Collections menu, and optional Curriculum menu.
LexisNexis sites
Home page
- You can publish up to 8 curated collections on your home page using any slot with "home page" in its name.
- 6 of these can be regular collections.
- 2 of these can be multi-volume set (MVS) collections.
- The 2 MVS curated collections will publish above your regular collections.
- If you don't publish curated collections to all 8 slots on your home page, your Account Manager can fill these slots with automated collections.
- Your Account Manager can also publish 2 MVS automated collections on your home page, in addition to the 8 slots for curated collections. These will publish below any curated collections.
Featured Collections & All Collections
- You can publish up to 4 collections to the Featured Collections list in your site's Menu using any slot with "Featured" in its name.
- The first 2 collections in the Featured Collections list are for curated MVS collections. The last 2 are for regular curated collections.
- All collections on your site (up to 18 total) will publish to the All Collections page. Collections published to an "All Collections" slot will only appear on the All Collections page.