This guide will help you know what to expect and provide resources for additional information.
WHAT: EBSCO is redesigning the discovery experience and user interface to meet ever-evolving user expectations for accessing, searching, choosing and using the library’s resources. They are introducing many new features including personalized dashboards, new ways to share and like resources, reading eBooks, and much more.
WHY: The primary users of Start Your Research and EBSCOhost databases are undergraduate students. Their attitudes and expectations around web experiences are formed broadly and from a young age by mobile technology, app design, social media, and search engines that support natural language searching. They expect digital experiences to be inviting and intuitive, distrusting dated, overly complex interfaces that don’t conform to modern design standards.
In designing the new EBSCO Discovery Service (locally branded as Start Your Research), EBSCO wanted to make sure that students didn’t feel intimidated or left out. They looked closely at student research needs, behaviors, and the broader ecosystem of information and design that informs their expectations for what a library interface should feel like.
PLEASE NOTE: Advanced searching tools are still available to meet the needs of intermediate researchers and research faculty.
If you do not have a personal acount... do nothing.
If you have a personal account...you may need to move or export your articles from your EBSCO folders and you will need to recreate your journal/search alerts. See these FAQs (linked here) for clarification.