Research Platforms Roadmap

Based on feedback from customers using the new user interface and extensive user experience research, we will be updating some navigation elements, including:

1. The left-hand navigation panel (right hand for right-to-left languages) will move to the top of the page.
2. There will be an option to have the filter panel open on the left hand side of the screen. This will be configurable in the Configuration module of EBSCO Experience Manager.
3. Dashboard tools will move into the MyEBSCO menu
4. Language option menu will move to the new top navigation menu
5. There will be an option to implement a “Back to home” button for users to easily navigate back to the home screen. This will be configurable in the Configuration module of EBSCO Experience Manager.

The Holdings and Link Management user interface was redesigned 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. 

• Institution name, which previously appeared in the color banner, is removed and will no longer be available as an option to display in the UI (Recommendation: use the newly disambiguated product name, referenced above, for institutional branding text)
• Access to the language selection menu is moved out of the color banner and is collapsed to just the globe icon

This Integration displays book cover images from a Yordam ILS on the results and detailed record pages in EBSCO Discovery Service when a cover image is not already available.

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 When an article has been retracted, a visible link will notify users of the retraction and seamlessly guide them to Argos, where they can view authoritative details about the reason for the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.

This integration enables libraries to add a “Map it” button to RTAC holdings in EBSCO Discovery Service by configuring a custom map URL. The button opens the library’s chosen mapping provider in a new window or tab, providing a wayfinding experience regardless of the map solution used.

The search history area of the advanced results page now includes a bulk actions toolbar and the ability to save individual searches; it also provides the ability to view results of searches without incurring a new S# (duplicating it in search history). Personalized users 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 now 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 can 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).

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