Research Platforms Roadmap

Increasing the size of an interactive element within the ‘bulk actions’ toolset to 24x24 px to meet WCAG 2.2 AA standards Note: this is a new WCAG 2.2 AA success criteria

EBSCO is enhancing search and journal alerts by enabling multiple designated email recipients. Alert creators will soon be able to add up to fifty (50) email addresses per alert. Recipient emails will also include an unsubscribe option, allowing individuals to opt out of a specific alert at any time.

The bulk actions toolbar will display consistently across the results pages and various Dashboard pages, except where specific deviations are warranted. (Note: Bulk Actions are not available to Guest Users.)

The search history area of the advanced results page will include a bulk actions toolbar and the ability to save individual searches; it will also provide the ability to view results of searches without incurring a new S# (duplicating it in search history). Personalized users will also have the ability to save their entire search history as one "search set" that can be viewed and re-run later in future browser sessions. 

Advanced results page users will have the ability to save their entire search history as one "search set" when logged into their MyEBSCO account. A new "search sets" tab will display under "Saved" that will list all saved search sets, which can be sorted alphabetically and by date. Each individual search set will display as a read-only version of the same detailed table view from search history on the advanced results page, with the ability to save and delete individual S#'s and download the entire search set (ie. PRISMA search strategy). Users will be able to re-run the entire search set to generate a refreshed version in search history on the advanced results page, so they can continue to edit and iterate on it as they refine and eventually finalize their PRISMA search strategy. Each new version can be saved as a new search set, and older versions can be deleted from the list of search sets. The download files for search history will also be improved to better support documentation and reproducibility of search strategies, and manual data entry into the PRISMA Flow Diagram (PDF, MS Word, CSV, XML, RTF, TXT).

Personalized users will be able to select up to 500 records at a time to perform bulk actions such as Download, Save, Add to project, Email, Share, Cite, and Delete. To support larger workflows, users will be able to easily navigate through sequential batches of 500 records, up to a maximum of 3,500 records per day.

The Holdings and Link Management user interface will be re-designed to align with WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards, ensuring all users have a highly accessible, usable and efficient experience to maintain their e-resource collections and Full Text Finder link configurations. 

Libraries using both Argos from Scitility and EBSCO will be able to display clear retraction alerts directly within EBSCO Discovery Service and EBSCOhost. When an article has been retracted, a visible link will notify users of the retraction and seamlessly guide them to Argos, where they can view authoritative details about the reason for the retraction and its implications.