What is Advantage Plus and how does it work?

Advantage Plus is a Marketplace feature where Advantage members can expand access to their Advantage titles, by either sharing them with or moving them to the shared collection (also called the consortium). It's designed to improve title selection, circulation, and availability for all members of a shared collection/consortium.

The shared collection/consortium turns on Advantage Plus, and chooses:

• Whether eligible titles are shared or moved.
  • If sharing: The Advantage member keeps ownership of the titles, and their users have priority on holds for them.
  • If moving: The shared collection/consortium assumes ownership of the titles.
• Who sets up the Advantage Plus plans to share or move titles, the shared collection/consortium or individual Advantage members.

Note: Once Advantage Plus is turned on, it can't be reversed. However, you can prevent new titles from being shared or moved by deleting your Advantage Plus plan.

An Advantage Plus plan controls which titles are shared with or moved to the shared collection/consortium and how often.

When turning on Advantage Plus, the shared collection/consortium chooses whether they want to create a single plan that covers all members or whether Advantage members set up their own plans.

This is customizable. When you set up your Advantage Plus plan, you'll choose:

• If the plan runs automatically (and shares or moves all eligible titles)
• How often it runs
• When to run it for the first time

Even if a plan is scheduled to run automatically, you can manually review and share or move eligible titles at any time.

Yes. As long as you control your Advantage Plus plan, you can prevent specific titles from being shared or moved. This action is permanent.

Learn how to exclude specific titles from Advantage Plus.

Yes, all copies of an eligible title are shared or moved.

A title is only shared or moved if all of its copies, in all purchased lending models, are eligible to be shared or moved through Advantage Plus. So, for example, if you own a title in both the Simultaneous Use and One Copy/One User lending models, it won't be shared or moved because Simultaneous Use titles aren't eligible.

Note: New copies of a previously shared title will be shared, even after the Advantage Plus plan is edited or deleted. However, new copies of previously moved titles won't be moved unless they meet your current plan's criteria.

Yes. If the shared collection/consortium controls the Advantage Plus plan, they can edit or delete it at any time on behalf of the whole group. If the Advantage member controls the Advantage Plus plan, they can edit or delete it at any time.

Reminders:

• Titles stay shared or moved, even after the Advantage Plus plan is edited or deleted.
• New copies of a previously shared title will be shared, even after the Advantage Plus plan is edited or deleted.
• New copies of previously moved titles will only be moved if they meet the current plan's criteria.

No, once a title is shared or moved via Advantage Plus, you can't manually un-share or move it back.

In rare circumstances, a title may be systematically un-shared due to publisher restrictions or budgetary concerns:

• If you share a title, then purchase it later as Simultaneous Use, the title will be un-shared due to publisher restrictions.
• If you share a Metered Access title, then later add it as Cost Per Circ, the title will be un-shared if you run out of Metered Access licenses and don't repurchase.

Visit this help article to learn how Advantage Plus titles are represented in Marketplace reports.

And, learn how to create a report to see how well your shared titles are circulating across all members of the shared collection/consortium.

Any user in the shared collection/consortium can place a hold on shared titles, but users who belong to the Advantage library that purchased the title will have priority on the holds list.

The Advantage member who owns them. Since the Advantage member keeps ownership of shared titles, they're the only member that can assign titles they share.

The Advantage member who owns them. Since the Advantage member keeps ownership of shared titles, they're the only one who can designate copies for Lucky Day.

Shared titles designated as Lucky Day are available to the entire shared collection/consortium.

Anyone in the shared collection/consortium can curate shared Advantage Plus titles.

When a weeded title is shared or moved as part of an Advantage Plus plan, it stays in the "weeded" status.

If a weeded title is shared, then the Advantage collection that owns it can unweed it.

If a weeded title is moved, then the shared collection/consortium can unweed it.