From within Edelweiss360, you can explore verified Edelweiss Communities. These are the Communities of Edelweiss users that are managed in some way by Edelweiss (vs. created and managed solely by users themselves).

Under Communities, you can view User Communities or Genre Communities. Genre communities are groups of users who are passionate about certain genres:

User Communities, on the other hand, are groups of similar users. They may belong to the same association (e.g. American Booksellers Association), work for the same employer (e.g. Barnes & Noble employees), or work in the same profession (e.g. public librarians who nominate titles for LibraryReads). Many of these Communities require a verified code to join.

Clicking on a community will bring you to a visual Summary of how its members have interacted with your titles on Edelweiss. You will also see a snapshot of the different roles of the community members under Members by Role.

Drill down into Members to view their activity, identify potential influencers, and even message users in Edelweiss.

Based on the data you find about a particular community, you may choose to auto-approve the associated users for your review copies on Edelweiss. From this Communities page, you can also manage review copy approval settings for each community by clicking into the count of auto-approved titles listed beneath the number of members, as shown below:

You can auto-approve an entire Community for all of your review copies by selecting Auto-Approve Profile. Or, you can choose specific titles for which you’d like to give members access by checking the relevant boxes: