EBSCO Platforms Roadmap:

EDS, EBSCOhost, Explora, EBSCO Mobile, and EBSCO Platforms

This roadmap provides an overview of new user interface work already completed or expected to complete in 2025. It has been...

AI Insights Enabled for SmartLinked Full Text

October 2025

Full-text records that are SmartLinked will be enabled to display AI Insights

EBSCO Platforms
Coming Soon!
Search Enhancements

Last updated Jul 2, 2025

AI Insights Available in Usage Reporting

July 2025

AI Insights will be available in a newly introduced field in Standard Admin Usage Reports. The COUNTER report will include AI Insights usage as part of “Investigations”

EBSCO Platforms
Coming Soon!
Search Enhancements Usage Reporting

Last updated Jul 2, 2025

Enhanced Search Boxes on the Advanced Search Page

June 2025

The Advanced Search page’s search boxes now automatically resize to always show the full length of the search string entered. And users can now add up to 12 search boxes by clicking “Add row” and delete any additional rows back down to the default of 3, by clicking “Delete row.” There’s also a new “Clear all” button which clears all search boxes at once.

EBSCO Platforms
Released
Search Enhancements

Last updated Jul 2, 2025

Run SmartText Search when Query Returns No Results

June 2025

The New UI now supports the EBSCOadmin setting “Run SmartText Search when Query Returns No Results.” When enabled, this setting automatically reruns zero-result searches using the SmartText search mode.

EBSCO Platforms
Released
Search Enhancements

Last updated Jul 2, 2025

Discoverability of Configuration Settings

July 2025

There will be a search box in the Configuration module of EBSCO Experience Manager to enable library administrators to easily find and link to different settings they can control across EBSCO products and platforms

EBSCO Experience Manager
Coming Soon!
EBSCO Configuration Search Enhancements

Last updated Jun 27, 2025

Nichigai Cover Images

August 2025

This integration displays book cover images from Nichigai on the results and detailed record pages in the new EBSCO Discovery Service and Publication Finder user interfaces when a cover image is not already available.

EBSCO Discovery ServiceFull Text Finder
Coming Soon!
Integrations

Last updated Jun 27, 2025

Search Within and Alpha Browse/List View Logic

June 2025

We have added a “Search within” feature to the topic browse category pages allowing users to search for specific topics. We have also added logic to only show the Alpha Browse (A-Z) buttons when there are 100 or more topics on a given category page, and to force the “List view” when there are 100 or more topics on a given category page.

Explora
Released
Explora Enhancements

Last updated Jun 27, 2025

European Accessibility Act-Related eBook Enhancements

June 2025

EBSCO eBooks users now have access to the following new functionality to align with requirements of the European Accessibility Act: accessibility metadata displayed for every EBSCO eBook in the new UI; an EPUB limiter for eBooks in new UI; line, word, and character spacing controls for EPUB formatted eBooks; text-to-speech functionality for PDF and EPUB formatted eBooks; and a user-facing remediation request form for EBSCO full text content to request an alternate format.

EBSCO eBooks
Released
Accessibility

Last updated Jun 26, 2025

New NoveList Interfaces

June 2025

We are pleased to announce new versions of the four NoveList interfaces that are modern, accessible and mobile friendly. The new NoveList experience will offer reading inspiration via trusted reading recommendations, curated book lists, and more.

EBSCOhost
Released
NoveList

Last updated Jun 20, 2025

EBSCO eBook Reader: Reintroduction for Android

2026

The EBSCO eBook reader, currently only available for iOS, will be reintroduced for Android devices after a long anticipated update by Adobe

EBSCO Mobile
Coming Soon!
EBSCO Mobile App Enhancements

Last updated Jun 17, 2025

eBook Landing Page

2026

Customers will be able to enable a landing page for their EBSCO eBook collection in new UI, supporting a browse experience and highlighting particular content in the library’s eBook collection.

EBSCO eBooks
Coming Soon!
EBSCO eBooks Enhancements

Last updated Jun 17, 2025

Improved Display for Run and Re-Run Searches

July 2025

There will be improvements to displaying run and re-run searches, including the ordering of combined searches, on the Search History tab

EBSCO Discovery ServiceEBSCOhost
Coming Soon!
Search Enhancements

Last updated Jun 12, 2025

Guided Style Search Boxes Maintained on Results List

October 2025

There will be an option for search boxes to be maintained on the result list when a user begins their search from the Advanced Search page.

EBSCOhost
Coming Soon!
Search Enhancements

Last updated Jun 12, 2025

Search History Displayed on the Results List

October 2025

There will be an option to see your search history directly on the results list

EBSCOhost
Coming Soon!
Results Page Search Enhancements

Last updated Jun 12, 2025

Default Citation Style

October 2025

Library administrators will be able to set a default citation style for individual profiles

EBSCO Discovery ServiceEBSCOhost
Coming Soon!
Customization

Last updated Jun 6, 2025

Date Filter Enhancements

October 2025

Users will have a custom date range option for the date quick filter and the date picker will only require the year, not a full 8-digit format such as MM/DD/YYYY

EBSCO Discovery ServiceEBSCOhost
Coming Soon!
Filter Enhancements Search Enhancements

Last updated Jun 6, 2025

Bulk Delete from Search History

October 2025

Users will have the ability to bulk delete items from their search history

EBSCO Discovery ServiceEBSCOhost
Coming Soon!
Search Enhancements

Last updated Jun 6, 2025

Improvements to Combined Search

October 2025

The combined search icon will be redesigned to make it more intuitive

EBSCO Discovery ServiceEBSCOhost
Coming Soon!
Search Enhancements

Last updated Jun 6, 2025

Search Alert for a Combined Search

October 2025

Users will have the ability to create a search alert for a combined search

EBSCO Discovery ServiceEBSCOhost
Coming Soon!
Search Enhancements

Last updated Jun 6, 2025

Edit the Query of a Search

July 2025

Users will be able to edit the query of a search via the Saved Search modal or from My dashboard

EBSCO Discovery ServiceEBSCOhost
Coming Soon!
Search Enhancements

Last updated Jun 6, 2025