EBSCO is adopting a new Digital Rights Management (DRM) solution for EBSCO eBooks, Readium LCP DRM, offered by EDRLab. This will bring significant benefits to publishers, libraries, and their patrons, enhancing the overall user experience and ensuring better content protection. This will eliminate the need for users to use Adobe Digital Editions and provide them with an accessible and modern offline reading experience with Thorium Reader, also offered by EDRLab.
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
‘Toast’ messages will meet standards by being persistent (user dismissed) and will be used for system error messages only.
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 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.
Ask this Document lets you ask questions and receive answers drawn directly from the document itself. The feature analyzes each question, understands its context, and responds using only the information contained within the document—nothing more, nothing less. Ask this Document intelligently identifies relevant sections, surfaces precise answers, and will even point you to specific areas of the document were the information is found.
April release will be to a closed group of beta participants. This functionality will release to all customers in July 2026.
Additional metadata will be added to the People Pages Works list, the Cited by and References tabs on the detailed record page, and the Cited by mini results list on the main search result page experience. The following metadata elements will be added:
- Publication issue number
- Publication volume number
- Publication date
- Article start/end pages and total pages
This integration displays book cover images from Google Books on results and detailed record pages for catalog records in EBSCO Discovery Service when a cover image is not already available.
Users will be able to edit combined searches in addition to individual searches.
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.)