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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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Results List and Search Page Placards
July 2025

Top of results page placards available so libraries can highlight content from DynaMed and LearningExpress, or create custom placards

Bottom of results page placards available so libraries can highlight content from Credo and WorldCat

Read more on EBSCO Connect
EBSCO Discovery Service
RELEASED
Integrations
Last Updated: 7/22/2025
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
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.

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EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCOhost Explora
RELEASED
Explora Enhancements Search Enhancements
Last Updated: 7/17/2025
Koha eResources API CustomLink
March 2025

Streamline eResource access in Koha catalogs, especially in consortium environments. It dynamically verifies eResource availability for specific library sites and seamlessly inserts access links into the New UI's "Access Options," tailored by item type and library location code.

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EBSCO Discovery Service
RELEASED
Integrations
Last Updated: 7/22/2025
Get It Now API CustomLink
March 2025

Get It Now from Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) complements your interlibrary loan (ILL) services by providing library patrons with the immediate fulfillment of full text articles from non-subscribed journals through a cost-effective and easy-to-use service integrated within Full Text Finder and/or EBSCO Discovery Service

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EBSCO Discovery Service Full Text Finder
RELEASED
Integrations
Last Updated: 7/22/2025
PressReader Relevant Highlight Placard
February 2025

For customers using both EBSCO Discovery Service and PressReader, this integration allows PressReader results to appear directly in the new EBSCO Discovery Service user interface. Users can then link to the PressReader website to access full text or explore additional results.

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EBSCO Discovery Service
RELEASED
Integrations
Last Updated: 7/22/2025
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
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
Media Placard
September 2024

The media placard is now available on EBSCO Discovery Service so libraries can highlight visual content from Flipster and CONTENTdm

Media Placard for CONTENTdm, Media Placard for Flipster
EBSCO Discovery Service
RELEASED
Integrations
Last Updated: 7/22/2025
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