EBSCOhost Advanced Search users will have the ability to leverage the Suggest Subject Terms feature that maps search terms to the subject authority or thesaurus that corresponds to the database they are searching (single-database searching only). Library administrators will be able to use the same EBSCOadmin settings for Advanced Search that they did for the Classic UI, to control whether or not this feature displays to users, and if so, whether or not it's selected by default for users.
Users can email or share record metadata and abstracts using one of three formats: 1) a Brief view, 2) a customizable Detailed view, or 3) a standard Citation format (such as APA or MLA); and libraries can set a default format, which users can choose to override. The Detailed view will allow users to pick and choose which metadata fields to include from a predefined list, making it easy to generate tailored references. The Brief and Detailed formats will include permalinks to each individual record in EBSCO's user interface, and the full text when available.
EBSCO adopted a new Digital Rights Management (DRM) solution for EBSCO eBooks, Readium LCP DRM, offered by EDRLab. This brings significant benefits to publishers, libraries, and their patrons, enhancing the overall user experience and ensuring better content protection. This eliminates the need for users to use Adobe Digital Editions and provides them with an accessible and modern offline reading experience with Thorium Reader, also offered by EDRLab.
Based on feedback from beta group testers, we made several design updates to our People Pages. Key statistics and top co-author sections moved higher up on the page to improve user access. Researcher disciplines and topics and author names are links that execute a new search on that concept.
EBSCO Discovery Service will support the Advanced Results Page, which previously released only for EBSCOhost. When enabled through a setting in the Configuration module of EBSCO Experience Manager, users that run searches from the Advanced Search page will land on a results page that has the 3+ guided style search boxes and a new and improved design for Search History (session based).
We understand that administrators often face challenges when trying to quickly find specific settings that impact the user experience. To help with this, we've added a search bar to EBSCO Configuration. In addition to being able to search for customization options, the search results will include links to EBSCO Connect.
Image and audio collections are enabled on EBSCO Research databases
Publication Finder and the Full Text Finder Link Resolver both now offer the ability to either use the browser locale to control the language of the UI or administrator set default languages via EBSCO Experience Manager > Configuration. Both interfaces have the ability for end-users to change the language of the UI via a new language selection menu and administrators can define a secondary official language that will be available via the new language selection menu
Authenticated users have the ability to bulk select up to 50 records and searches from Dashboard Saved, Projects, and Recent Activity pages, to save and un-save records and searches, as well as download records. (Note: Guest access users do not have bulk actions available to them)