Research Platforms Roadmap

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 

Publication Finder now offers the ability to export selected result list items (individual items or a full page of results, up to 100 items) as a tab separated (TSV) file. Export can be toggled on in EBSCO Experience Manager Configuration under Publication Finder Settings: Export options

This feature adds an optional new top right navigation to the Publication Finder user interface where your administrator can add preset links to your EBSCOhost and EDS profiles, or add custom URLs to link to other sites.  These new options will be available for setup under a new section for Publication Finder in EBSCO Experience Manager Configuration called Additional tools.  This will also make Publication Finder profiles eligible to display the Supplemental sources integration, and if configured, the link to Supplemental sources will display under the top right navigation options or can be linked to directly via the syntax https://publications.ebsco.com/c/{opid}/supplemental-sources, where opid is replaced with the unique opid for your Publication Finder profile. Supplemental Sources Integration is controlled in EBSCO Experience Manager Configuration under Integrations: Supplemental sources

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.

Publication Finder customers will have the ability to enable a new set of functionality (opt-in, this will not be enabled automatically) that offers users the ability to search and browse for selected and visible databases in addition to the currently offered publication search and browse. This will also tie into new functionality being made available in Holdings Management to set custom package Display Names, alternate package names and package/database descriptions.

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.

Library administrators now have the ability to customize the text of the Publications label that appears in the lefthand navigation pane under Research Tools on EBSCO Discovery Service, EBSCOhost, and Explora profiles. The default label is now Publication Finder.