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Research Platforms Roadmap

This roadmap provides an overview of the features and functionality completed and coming soon to EBSCO research platforms including EBSCO Discovery Service, EBSCOhost, Explora, EBSCO Mobile, and EBSCO eBooks. Product roadmaps are subject to change.

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EBSCO eBook Carousels
July 2026

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.

 

EBSCO eBooks
COMING SOON
EBSCO eBooks Enhancements
Last Updated: 20 April 2026
Ask This Document
July 2026

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.

EBSCOhost EBSCO Discovery Service
COMING SOON
AI
Last Updated: 18 May 2026
EBSCO AI Research Companion BETA on Business Searching Interface
July 2026

A new, conversational way to conduct research in EBSCOhost.  The AI Research Companion 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. 

EBSCOhost
COMING SOON
AI
Last Updated: 1 June 2026
EBSCO Resource Hub: Phase 1 of 3
August 2026
Institutions will have the option to switch from the Select Service Page to the EBSCO Resource Hub starting in fall 2026. The EBSCO Resource Hub is a menu that displays your EBSCO profiles. It is shown to authenticated users when the link they followed to reach EBSCO does not include syntax for a specific profile.
 
This work will release in three phases, with the first phase scheduled for August 2026. The first release will be the basic customization options, which will be available in the Authentication & Access app within EBSCO Experience Manager. Administrators will be able to provide contact information, easily hide profiles, customize profile names, and provide brief descriptions. 
Read more on EBSCO Connect
EBSCO Platforms
COMING SOON
Authentication
Last Updated: 22 May 2026
Advanced Scholarly Recommendations
September 2026

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.

EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCOhost
COMING SOON
EBSCO Linked Data+
Last Updated: 2 February 2026
Researcher API Beta
October 2026

EBSCO's upcoming Researcher API is the future successor to both EDS API and EBSCOhost API, offering access to the same content your EDS and EBSCOhost UI profiles use. In addition to core search and retrieve functionality, Researcher API Beta will launch with support for features not currently available on our other APIs: Natural Language Search, AI Insights, and Citation Discovery.

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EBSCOhost EBSCO Discovery Service
COMING SOON
EDS API
Last Updated: 26 March 2026
EBSCO Resource Hub: Phase 2 of 3
November 2026
Institutions will have the option to switch from the Select Service Page to the EBSCO Resource Hub starting in fall 2026. The EBSCO Resource Hub is a menu that displays your EBSCO profiles. It's shown to authenticated users when the link they followed to reach EBSCO does not include syntax for a specific profile.
 
This work will release in three phases, with the second phase scheduled for November 2026. The second release will enable institutions to optionally switch to using the EBSCO Resource Hub instead of the Select Resource page.
Read more on EBSCO Connect
EBSCO Platforms
COMING SOON
Authentication
Last Updated: 22 May 2026
EBSCO Resource Hub: Phase 3 of 3
February 2027
Institutions will have the option to switch from the Select Service Page to the EBSCO Resource Hub starting in fall 2026. The EBSCO Resource Hub is a menu that displays your EBSCO profiles. It's shown to authenticated users when the link they followed to reach EBSCO does not include syntax for a specific profile.
 
This work will release in three phases, with the final phase currently scheduled for February 2027. The third release will enable consortium administrators to copy a customized version of the EBSCO Resource Hub to one or more child sites.
Read more on EBSCO Connect
EBSCO Platforms
COMING SOON
Authentication
Last Updated: 22 May 2026
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