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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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Topic UI Translations
July 2025

We will create and maintain a translation workflow for the customizable text within certain Topic Management (TM) components. Specifically for Referencia Latina & Salud en Espanol, search strings will be stored and returned/executed in Spanish, with the availability of an icon or button to toggle the Spanish translations on/off.

EBSCO Platforms
RELEASED
Viewer Enhancements
Last Updated: 8/11/2025
Search Within and Alpha Browse/List View Logic
June 2025

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.

Explora
RELEASED
Explora Enhancements
Last Updated: 7/17/2025
Renaming Related Items to Publication Contents
May 2025

The Related Items feature found on the detailed record and in the PDF and HTML viewers will be renamed to Publication Contents to better reflect what this feature is showing to end users - other articles included in the same issue (serials) or edition (monographs) as the record the user is currently on.

Read more on EBSCO Connect
EBSCO Platforms
RELEASED
Viewer Enhancements
Last Updated: 7/17/2025
Related Items
March 2025

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.

Read more on EBSCO Connect
EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCOhost Explora
RELEASED
Explora Enhancements Search Enhancements
Last Updated: 7/17/2025
Add Video Element to Topic Browse Landing Page
January 2025

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.

Explora
RELEASED
Explora Enhancements
Last Updated: 7/17/2025
Situational Placards on Result List
January 2025

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.

Explora
RELEASED
Explora Enhancements
Last Updated: 7/17/2025
Related Content
October 2024

Users can access related records from the full details and viewer screens so that they can easily navigate to content from the same volume of a publication, such as chapters within a book, articles within an issue and Points of View articles and other related content collections.

Explora
RELEASED
Viewer Enhancements
Last Updated: 7/22/2025
Content Collections Topic Page
October 2024

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.

Explora
RELEASED
Explora 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
Featured Collections and Spotlights
July 2024

Spotlights and Featured Collections are now available on Explora landing pages – check out our Spotlight on sharks on Explora Primary this month!

Explora
RELEASED
Explora Enhancements
Last Updated: 7/22/2025
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