Chat integrations enabled in EBSCO Experience Manager Configuration are now eligible to be displayed on the Publication Finder and Full Text Finder Link Resolver user interfaces
This feature adds an optional new top right navigation to the Full Text Finder Link Resolver user interface where your administrator can add preset links to your EBSCOhost, EDS and Publication Finder profiles, or add custom URLs to link to other sites. These new options are available for setup under a new section for Full Text Finder in EBSCO Experience Manager Configuration called Additional tools
We have added a "Search within" feature to the topic browse category pages allowing users to search for specific topics. We have also added logic to only show the Alpha Browse (A-Z) buttons when there are 100 or more topics on a given category page, and to force the "List view" when there are 100 or more topics on a given category page.
Related Items, previously only available on select Explora interfaces, has been added to all interfaces including EDS and EBSCOhost. This feature shows on both the detailed record and in the full text viewer and lists all other articles included in the same issue or edition of the record you are currently viewing, serving as a way to navigate through articles and chapters in a given issue.
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.
This work will enable the video panel to show to users at the bottom of the Topic Browse Landing Page (if applicable) in Explora. With a video element on the topic browse landing page, users are presented with an additional content type to search for relevant information. This is in addition to the 'Video' tab found at the top of the results list and/or the video panel at the bottom of the results.
Situational placards will be made available in Biography Reference Ultimate and Literary Reference Ultimate which mimic the existing exact match placard functionality, but for topics from the topic browse experience. These placards utilize different search logic for each placard and provide users with relevant starting information about popular topics while increasing visibility of the topic pages/browse experience via the search result list.
New Full Text Finder Link Resolver User Interface (FTF UI) supports third party API links such as ThirdIron links and Unpaywall API links to conditionally display on the FTF UI when the third party API returns a positive response.
Users of Points of View and Read It! on Explora will soon have a new Topic Page experience which highlights related content collections for Points of View Point/Counterpoint articles and Read It! comprehension tests.
“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.