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
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Related Topic Overviews that display on the Topic Discovery Pages work using a search string on the backend. Sometimes, this search string would include the Topic Overview that is already featured at the top of the Topic Discovery Page, so you would see it twice. These are now deduplicated so that any Topic Overview that displays at the top of the page can no longer appear under “Related Topic Overviews” as well.
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).
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
Image and audio collections are enabled on EBSCO Research databases