EBSCO Platforms Roadmap:

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.

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.

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.

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.

Clear Find Field Setting

June 2025

The Clear Find Field setting in EBSCOadmin is now honored in the new user interface

Custom Folder Download Report

May 2025

Enable personal users to request a report that includes their custom folder container information and custom folder contents. The rollout for this functionality started on May 2, 2025 and completed on May 28, 2025.

Option to Set Display to Show Full or Abbreviated Abstract on Results List

May 2025

Library administrators can change the default display to show the full or abbreviated abstract on the results page using a setting in the Configuration module of EBSCO Experience Manager. Users still have the ability to show the full or abbreviated abstract in the user interface.

Renaming Related Items to Publication Contents

May 2025

The Related Items feature found on the detailed record and in the PDF and HTML viewers will be renamed to Publication Contents to better reflect what this feature is showing to end users – other articles included in the same issue (serials) or edition (monographs) as the record the user is currently on.

Option to Set Number of Records to Display on Results List

May 2025

Library administrators can change the number of records that display on the results list using a setting in the Configuration module of EBSCO Experience Manager. In addition to the default value of 10 records, administrators can select to display 20, 30, or 50 items. Users still have the ability to change the number of records that display via a pulldown menu in the user interface.

COUNTER R5.1 Compliant Reports

February 2025

Reports & Statistics – COUNTER reporting will be upgraded to support release 5.1 Code of Practice to maintain industry compliance. Users will be able to access, generate and schedule COUNTER R5.1 & SUSHI server reports. COUNTER R5 & R5.1 reporting ability will live concurrently until EBSCO deprecates the R5 customer facing reports in June 2025.

AI Natural Language Search Mode

March 2025

Natural Language Search (NLS) allows researchers to search using everyday language in question or statement form. At the time when NLS is supported in EBSCO interfaces, library administrators can choose to enable NLS as an optional search mode using their EBSCO Experience Manager configuration. When enabled in a given interface or profile, end users can opt to utilize NLS to find highly relevant results in response to a natural language query.

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

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.

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

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.

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.