Research Platforms Roadmap

After a search runs and there are duplicates present (common in multi-database searching and EDS), the hit count will display Total Hits (including duplicates) until the end of the results are reached, at which point the New UI will continue to display the final deduplicated hit count. The New UI will no longer show an "Initial deduped hit count."

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.

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 When an article has been retracted, a visible link will notify users of the retraction and seamlessly guide them to Argos, where they can view authoritative details about the reason for the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

A new, conversational way to conduct research in EBSCOhost.  The AI Assistant BETA will provide our users a new page where they can have a multi-turn conversation with our content.  The first BETA will be released on the business searching interface and will be interacting with business source ultimate content. 

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.

Users will be able to leverage bulk action tools on the Cited by, References, and People Page Works lists to complete the following actions on up to 50 records at a time:

1. Cite
2. Download
3. Share/Email
4. Add to project
5. Save

EBSCO eBook Carousels will provide library administrators with a way to configure customizable visual browse areas that will appear on EBSCOhost/EDS profiles in new UI. These areas will highlight EBSCO eBooks from librarians' collections for their end users' pre-search.

Enhance the student research experience with EBSCO’s upgraded recommendation engine, which now leverages semantic similarity and an academic citation network powered by the new EBSCO Scholarly Graph. Version 1, launched late 2023, has been adopted by over 200 libraries. With the upcoming release of version 2, we anticipate even greater impact on our users, researchers, and libraries, and researchers.