EBSCO New UI Roadmap:

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.

New Full Text Finder Link Resolver UI supports API Links (e.g. ThirdIron and Unpaywall)

October 2024

New Full Text Finder Link Resolver User Interface (FTF UI) supports third party API links such as ThirdIron links and Unpaywall API links to conditionally display on the FTF UI when the third party API returns a positive response.

Publication Finder Search Box Builder

October 2024

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

Patron Empowerment and RTAC Updates for FOLIO Libraries Leveraging ICS

January 2025

Introduce configuration in EEM Config to show/hide due dates and times in RTAC

Enhance EEM Config EDS Patron Empowerment namespace globalization

Patron Empowerment and RTAC Updates for FOLIO Libraries Leveraging ICS

December 2024

Add volume/item information to display in holds/checkouts/fees on new UI Dashboard, item detail page, and result list

Patron Empowerment and RTAC Updates for FOLIO Libraries Leveraging ICS

September 2024

Do not show RTAC when “isRTACapplicable” is set to false

Add  “loan type” to RTAC display 

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.

PICOT Search

October 2024

PICOT is a valuable mnemonic tool designed to assist medical researchers in crafting clinical questions prior to conducting searches. This framework ensures that research questions are precise and targeted, enhancing both the focus and comprehensiveness of search strategies.

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

Custom Limiters

October 2024

Library administrators can now create custom limiters according to field codes. The most popular custom limiters from the Classic UI will be pre-programmed and just need to be turned on

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.

Enhanced Package Metadata, Searching/Navigation and Customization

October 2024

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.

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.

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.

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

October 2024

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.

Support for New Package/Database Metadata

October 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.

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.

Citation Discovery by EBSCO

August 2025

The ability for users to explore citation counts and 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 late 2024.