EBSCO New UI Roadmap:

EBSCO Scholarly Graph

October 2024

The EBSCO Scholarly Graph (ESG) is a comprehensive network containing millions of bibliographic records of published creative works as well as the local holdings data from contributing libraries. The ESG captures how the metadata in these creative works link together, such as common co-authors between different works, articles focused on similar subjects, publishers and author affiliated institutions, backwards and forward citations, common synonyms, linked data and national library vocabularies, and much more. The ESG powers many of the EBSCO linked data features such as citation counts, author pages, open web discovery, and advanced researcher recommendations.

Generative AI Insight Summaries (Beta)

November 2024

AI Insights helps users evaluate relevancy of an article to their research topic via a new button under Articles where Full Text is available (within the search results list).  The button leverages Generative AI to product on-demand short summaries of key points in the article (and is grounded in the full-text of the article).

EBSCO Linked Data Beta Program

November 2024

The EBSCO Linked Data Beta Program will be released in late 2024, allowing customers to try EBSCO’s exciting new features for New UI powered by the new EBSCO Scholarly Graph.

Support for New Package/Database Metadata

November 2024

EBSCO Global Knowledgebase is being populated with new package/database descriptions, alternate package/database names and package/database subjects that will be visible in Holdings Management (descriptions and alternate names will be searchable). Additionally, HLM Admins will be able to enter custom descriptions for packages/databases, add custom display names for packages, custom alternate names and affiliate additional managed subject headings to packages/databases.

Filter-Only Searching

November 2024

This feature will allow users to perform searches using only filters and without additional search terms or keywords

Publication Finder Offers Search & Browse of Databases in Addition to Publications

January 2025

Publication Finder customers will have the ability to enable a new set of functionality (opt-in, this will not be enabled automatically) that offers users the ability to search and browse for selected and visible databases in addition to the currently offered publication search and browse. This will also tie into new functionality being made available in Holdings Management to set custom Display Names, alternate names and database descriptions.

Publication Finder Offers Search & Browse of Databases in Addition to Publications

January 2025

Publication Finder customers will have the ability to enable a new set of functionality (opt-in, this will not be enabled automatically) that offers users the ability to search and browse for selected and visible databases in addition to the currently offered publication search and browse. This will also tie into new functionality being made available in Holdings Management to set custom package Display Names, alternate package names and package/database descriptions.

Enhanced Package Metadata, Searching/Navigation and Customization

January 2025

Support management of package description, package URL, alternate package names, custom package display names in Global Knowledge Base/Holdings and Link Management. Enhanced package searching, navigation and organization in Publication Finder and Full Text Finder user interfaces

Collection Assessment 

October 2024

For those institutions that use Full Text Finder, library administrators can make more confident purchase, renewal, and upgrade decisions by leveraging the Collection Assessment tool within Holdings and Link Manager to perform package and title level comparisons of their holdings

Content Collections Topic Page

October 2024

Users of Points of View and Read It! on Explora will soon have a new Topic Page experience which highlights related content collections for Points of View Point/Counterpoint articles and Read It! comprehension tests.

Scopus Times Cited integration

October 2024

EBSCO has partnered with Elsevier to provide integrated Times Cited data on EBSCO Discovery Service for customers on the new user interface who are subscribed to the Elsevier Scopus® database. This integration allows librarians to configure Scopus access citation counts and links to the Scopus platform for users to view additional metadata for a given citation result set.

Publication Finder Search Box Builder

October 2024

The Publication Finder search box builder is now available in the new search box module in EEM.

New Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Form

October 2024

The new interlibrary loan (ILL) form is designed to seamlessly integrate with EBSCO’s New UI. This form has several enhanced features:
1. EEM Module: Easily create and manage ILL forms with the new EEM module.
2. Entitlement API Integration: Users will be informed about the availability of a copy through EBSCO full text, SmartLinks+, or Unpaywall before submitting their request.
3. EBSCO SSO Integration: Automatic population of user information with EBSCO Single Sign-On.
4. Multilingual Support: Access the form in all languages supported by EBSCO.

Add Multiple Records to Projects

October 2024

Personalized users can add up to 50 records at a time to a Project of their choice, whether existing or new, directly from the results page

Option to Show Full Abstract from Results List

July 2024

Users can expand the abbreviated abstract to show the full abstract from the results list while using EBSCOhost, EBSCO Discovery Service, and Explora profiles

Results Page Updates

October 2024

Records on the results page in EBSCO Discovery Service and EBSCOhost will be numbered to make navigating results simpler and more intuitive. Users will also be able to select the number of results they see before the “See More Results” button appears. The default view will remain as 10 records, with options to view up to 50 records.

Related Content

October 2024

Users can access related records from the full details and viewer screens so that they can easily navigate to content from the same volume of a publication, such as chapters within a book, articles within an issue and Points of View articles and other related content collections.

Bulk Export

January 2025

Bulk export from results list (up to 25,000 items) in the following formats: RIS, CSV, BIBTEX, MARC21 and XML

Links to Authorities in Left-Hand Navigation Pane

April 2025

Links to the following authorities will be added to the left-hand navigation pane of EDS, EBSCOhost, and Explora profiles when the relevant databases are enabled:

Publications authority

Subjects authority

Atla Scripture Search

CINAHL Headings

MEDLINE — MeSH 2024

Advanced Scholarly Recommendations

August 2025

Enhance the student research experience with EBSCO’s upgraded recommendation engine, which now leverages semantic similarity and an academic citation network powered by the new EBSCO Scholarly Graph. Version 1, launched late 2023, has been adopted by over 200 libraries. With the upcoming release of version 2, we anticipate even greater impact on our users, researchers, and libraries, and researchers.