Until now, OverDrive has delivered its service through its own hosted platform, taking advantage of the limited capabilities of established protocols such as SIP2, Remote Patron Authentication, to integrate its services into third-party applications. In response to the increasing demand for interoperability and integration, OverDrive has announced its plans to deliver a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to allow the developers of other related products, typically integrated library systems, online catalogs, mobile app developers, or discovery interfaces, to incorporate OverDrive's e-book discovery, lending, and management functionality. These APIs will be available to libraries that partner with OverDrive and to approved third-party vendors. Access will be controlled through license keys issued by OverDrive, a typical arrangement for business applications that offer APIs. Use of the OverDrive APIs will require the third party's development environment to offer where appropriate reciprocal APIs to allow users to also access selected services of the discovery layer through the OverDrive platform.
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