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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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Coming Soon Released

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Custom Folder Download Report
May 2025

Enable personal users to request a report that includes their custom folder container information and custom folder contents. The rollout for this functionality started on May 2, 2025 and completed on May 28, 2025.

Read more on EBSCO Connect
EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCOhost
RELEASED
Dashboard Enhancements
Last Updated: 7/17/2025
Filter Only Searching in the New UI
January 2025

Ability to use just filters to search without needing to enter a search term

EBSCO Platforms
RELEASED
Filter Enhancements Search Enhancements
Last Updated: 7/17/2025
New Limiters Available in EBSCOadmin
December 2024

Ability to limit to HTML Only, PDF Only, and eBooks Only. These limiters are available for EBSCOhost and EDS customers, and they can be configured for profiles in EBSCOadmin along with the other standard limiters.

Read more on EBSCO Connect
EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCOhost
RELEASED
Filter Enhancements Search Enhancements
Last Updated: 7/17/2025
Add Multiple Records to Projects
October 2024

Personalized users can add up to 50 records at a time to a Project of their choice, whether existing or new, directly from the results page

Read more on EBSCO Connect
EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCOhost
RELEASED
Dashboard Enhancements Results Page
Last Updated: 7/22/2025
Custom Limiters
October 2024

Library administrators can now create custom limiters according to field codes. The most popular custom limiters from the Classic UI will be pre-programmed and just need to be turned on

Read more on EBSCO Connect
EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCOhost Explora
RELEASED
Filter Enhancements
Last Updated: 7/22/2025
Search Modes and Expanders on the Results Page
August 2024

The results page now lists the selected search mode under “All Filters.” The search mode can be changed on the Advanced Search under “Search Options”. It also displays any selected Search Expanders. For more convenient refinement, a link back to “Advanced Search” is now directly available in the “All Filters” panel.

 

Read more on EBSCO Connect
EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCOhost
RELEASED
Filter Enhancements Results Page Search Enhancements
Last Updated: 7/22/2025
Dashboard Collapse
August 2024

“My Dashboard” is now collapsed by default on Explora. Users can click on the “My Dashboard” header to expand it. After expanding this menu, it will remain expanded as users navigate through the interface. Users can also collapse it again by clicking on the “My Dashboard” header, and it will remain collapsed until expanded again.

 

Explora
RELEASED
Dashboard Enhancements Explora Enhancements
Last Updated: 7/22/2025
Filters in Multi-Database Searches
July 2024

In a multi-database search, each database's specific filters will be displayed in a dedicated dropdown section in the Advanced Search to allow for easy orientation

EBSCOhost
RELEASED
Filter Enhancements
Last Updated: 7/22/2025
Filters in Single-Database Searches
June 2024

Researchers can now find a complete set of database-specific filters in single database search mode. When multiple databases are searched together, the shared filters are displayed

EBSCOhost
RELEASED
Filter Enhancements
Last Updated: 7/22/2025
Filter Panel User Experience
April 2024

User experience design improvements for navigating long lists of filter values; ex. Subjects, which can sometimes have 30+ values

Read More about EDS Filters, Read More about EBSCOhost Filters
EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCOhost Explora
RELEASED
Filter Enhancements
Last Updated: 7/22/2025
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