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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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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
Option to Set Display to Show Full or Abbreviated Abstract on Results List
May 2025

Library administrators can change the default display to show the full or abbreviated abstract on the results page using a setting in the Configuration module of EBSCO Experience Manager. Users still have the ability to show the full or abbreviated abstract in the user interface.

EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCOhost Explora
RELEASED
Results Page
Last Updated: 7/17/2025
Option to Set Number of Records to Display on Results List
May 2025

Library administrators can change the number of records that display on the results list using a setting in the Configuration module of EBSCO Experience Manager. In addition to the default value of 10 records, administrators can select to display 20, 30, or 50 items. Users still have the ability to change the number of records that display via a pulldown menu in the user interface.

EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCOhost Explora
RELEASED
Results Page
Last Updated: 7/17/2025
Links to Authorities in Left-Hand Navigation Pane
April 2025

Links to the following authorities are now available on the left-hand navigation pane of EDS, EBSCOhost, and Explora profiles when the relevant databases are enabled:

Publications authority

Subjects authority

Atla Scripture Search

CINAHL Headings

MEDLINE -- MeSH 2024

EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCOhost Explora
RELEASED
Publication Authorities Search Enhancements Subject Authorities
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
Migration of Saved Searches to New UI
March 2025

Upon the institution migrating to the new UI, all active personal users will incur a migration of their saved searches, ensuring those users can view and manage these saved searches alongside those which were saved within the new UI

 

EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCOhost Explora
RELEASED
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
Customize Publications Label
January 2025

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.

Read more on EBSCO Connect
EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCOhost Explora
RELEASED
Customization Publication Finder
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
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