EBSCO eBooks users now have access to the following new functionality to align with requirements of the European Accessibility Act: accessibility metadata displayed for every EBSCO eBook in the new UI; an EPUB limiter for eBooks in new UI; line, word, and character spacing controls for EPUB formatted eBooks; text-to-speech functionality for PDF and EPUB formatted eBooks; and a user-facing remediation request form for EBSCO full text content to request an alternate format.
EBSCO's Global Knowledgebase is being populated with new managed package descriptions, alternate package names, package subjects, and package-level URLs that will be searchable in Holdings Management. Additionally, Holdings Management Administrators will be able to create a custom package display name, add alternate package names and descriptions, and associate additional managed subjects to packages; users can also add package URLs to their custom packages.
Publication Finder and Full Text Finder are now available on Connect
For those institutions that use Full Text Finder, library administrators can make more confident purchase, renewal, and upgrade decisions by leveraging the Collection Assessment tool within Holdings and Link Manager to perform package and title level comparisons of their holdings
After a recent third-party audit performed by Deque, our teams have been working diligently to update our conformance with WCAG 2.1 AA. Our newest VPAT (posted on Connect) reflects these updates.
Enables librarians to independently control the visibility/discoverability/inclusion of resources in their HLM collection between Publication Finder, Full Text Finder Resolver, and MARC exports
Text to Speech for PDF and HTML are available on New UI