EBSCO Platforms Roadmap:

VPAT Updates Available on EBSCO Connect

2024

Publication Finder and Full Text Finder are now available on Connect

NoveList Select for EDS/Ehost

April 2025

NoveList Select is now available in the latest versions of EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) and EBSCOhost, enhancing these interfaces with detailed book recommendations, series titles in reading order, and other helpful information from NoveList to assist both library staff and users in finding great next reads with expertly curated read-alikes.

Industry Discovery Pages in new Business Search Interface

May 2025

In addition to Company Discovery Pages, BSI will introduce another feature called “Industry Discovery Pages”. This feature provides another, singular overview of the top industries in the world today. Each page will include an Industry Smart Panel that offers an overview of the target industry. Additionally, researchers will discover links to related companies, industry reports from leading providers, relevant articles, and more!

Company Discovery Pages in new Business Search Interface

May 2025

We are excited to introduce “Company Discovery Pages,” a new feature in BSI designed to enhance your business research experience. This feature will provide comprehensive Company Discovery Pages for several thousand companies, consolidating various materials and artifacts into a single, intuitive view. Each page will include a Company Smart Panel which will include details such as headquarters, CEO, ticker number, employee count, and more when data is available. Additionally, researchers will see top competitors, industry reports, SWOT analyses, case studies, articles, videos, and more!

For those who previously used the Company Information portal in Classic BSI, the new Company Discovery Pages will serve as its enhanced successor, offering the same detailed company information with additional intuitive features. Please note that only the Company Smart Panel will be available in EBSCOhost.

New Business Searching Interface (BSI) Now Available

January 2025

EBSCO’s new Business Searching Interface (BSI) offers a clean, modern look to
make business research more intuitive and efficient for Business Source subscribers. With improved navigation and a visually appealing design, the new BSI delivers a unique search experience. Students, faculty and researchers can easily browse leading business journals and magazines, search specific topics and easily locate country economic data, company profiles, industry information, and market research.

January-June 2025 will be an opt-in approach to customers. A full migration for all remaining customers will occur in early July 2025.

Links to Authorities in Left-Hand Navigation Pane

April 2025

Links to the following authorities are now available on 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

SAML SSO Authentication to EBSCO Experience Manager

April 2025

Library administrators will be able to configure and use their institution’s SAML Single Sign-On (such as OpenAthens, MS Entra, or Shibboleth) for access to EBSCO Experience Manager. This work will allow for more secure, standard authentication and role-based access control for EEM, an interface where product configuration is increasingly homed. Administrators can easily connect to their SAML Identity Provider using the setup wizard, and granularly manage permissions for administrative access.

Migrate IP Authentication Self-Service Setup into EEM

April 2025

Configuration of IP authentication will move from EBSCOadmin to EBSCO Experience Manager. Administrators will benefit from self-supported IP configuration in a modern and intuitive UI.

Title + Abstract Field Code

March 2025

A new field code (search tag) has been added to select EBSCOhost databases: XB searches both the Title and the Abstract simultaneously in Academic Search (all versions), CINAHL (all versions), Medline (all versions), Health Business (all versions), SPORTDiscus (all versions), APA PsycInfo, PsycBooks, PsycTherapy, and PsycExtra. APA PsycArticles and PsycTests will receive it by July 2025. Command line searching with XB is supported by some EDS partner databases as well.

XB will appear in the Field Code drop-down list when searching applicable individual databases in an EBSCOhost profile. In multi-database EBSCOhost searches and any EDS profile, only common field codes will display, excluding XB. Note that typing XB into a command line search for an unsupported database will treat XB as a keyword search which will provide skewed results. We recommend using XB only in single-database searches.
 

Related Items

March 2025

Related Items, previously only available on select Explora interfaces, has been added to all interfaces including EDS and EBSCOhost. This feature shows on both the detailed record and in the full text viewer and lists all other articles included in the same issue or edition of the record you are currently viewing, serving as a way to navigate through articles and chapters in a given issue.

New UI URL Builder

March 2025

Library administrators now have the capability to generate New UI URLs for their EBSCO products, including database-specific URLs. This new feature will be integrated into the Search Box Builder within EBSCO Experience Manager.

Koha eResources API CustomLink

March 2025

Streamline eResource access in Koha catalogs, especially in consortium environments. It dynamically verifies eResource availability for specific library sites and seamlessly inserts access links into the New UI’s “Access Options,” tailored by item type and library location code.

Get It Now API CustomLink

March 2025

Get It Now from Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) complements your interlibrary loan (ILL) services by providing library patrons with the immediate fulfillment of full text articles from non-subscribed journals through a cost-effective and easy-to-use service integrated within Full Text Finder and/or EBSCO Discovery Service

PICOT Search Enhancements

March 2025

The PICOT guided search tool has been updated in the following ways: Descriptive text has been added that helps busy medical users understand how to run a PICOT search, with a link to an updated Connect page; a “Clear all” button was added to clear all PICOT search boxes; and the Boolean operator inserted between “Intervention” and “Comparison” changed from OR to AND, so the search string displays on the Advanced Search page as follows: Population/Problem AND (Intervention AND Comparison) AND Outcome AND Time. Users are welcome to modify this prior to running the search, by manually changing the search query on the Advanced Search page.

The PICOT tool is disabled by default. However, customers or EBSCO Support can enable it via the Configuration module in EBSCO Experience Manager.

References Powered by Linked Data

August 2025

The ability for users to review References by article is coming to EBSCO! Powered by the new EBSCO Scholarly Graph and data partners. Customers who are interested in learning more can participate in the EBSCO Beta Program launching in summer 2025. Send an email inquiry to ai@ebsco.com

People Pages Powered by Linked Data

August 2025

Users will be able to explore people pages, which showcase key metrics, co-authors and works for researchers, powered by the new EBSCO Scholarly Graph. Customers who are interested can participate in the EBSCO Beta Program launching in spring 2025. Send an email inquiry to ai@ebsco.com

Citation Discovery by EBSCO

August 2025

The ability for users to explore citation counts and citing article relationships is coming to EBSCO! Powered by the new EBSCO Scholarly Graph and data partners. Customers who are interested in learning more can participate in the EBSCO Beta Program launching in spring 2025. Send an email inquiry to ai@ebsco.com

Advanced Scholarly Recommendations

October 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.

Migration of Saved Searches to New UI

March 2025

Upon the institution migrating to the new UI, all active personal users will incur a migration of their saved searches, ensuring those users can view and manage these saved searches alongside those which were saved within the new UI

Configurable Option to Allow Holds on Specific Copies or Volumes

March 2025

Library administrators for EBSCO-hosted FOLIO libraries with Patron Empowerment will be able to hide the option for users to place holds on specific copies or volumes when a title has multiple items.