Research Platforms Roadmap

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.

We are excited to introduce "Company Discovery Pages," a new feature in BSI designed to enhance your business research experience. This feature will provide comprehensive Company Discovery Pages for several thousand companies, consolidating various materials and artifacts into a single, intuitive view. Each page will include a Company Smart Panel which will include details such as headquarters, CEO, ticker number, employee count, and more when data is available. Additionally, researchers will see top competitors, industry reports, SWOT analyses, case studies, articles, videos, and more!

For those who previously used the Company Information portal in Classic BSI, the new Company Discovery Pages will serve as its enhanced successor, offering the same detailed company information with additional intuitive features. Please note that only the Company Smart Panel will be available in EBSCOhost.

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 new Business Searching Interface (BSI) offers a clean, modern look to make business research more intuitive and efficient for Business Source subscribers. With improved navigation and a visually appealing design, the new BSI delivers a unique search experience. Students, faculty and researchers can easily browse leading business journals and magazines, search specific topics and easily locate country economic data, company profiles, industry information, and market research.

January-June 2025 will be an opt-in approach to customers. A full migration for all remaining customers will occur in early July 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.

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.

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.