UX Caucus Database Tips

EBSCOhost feels like it's taking over the blog right now, but this is a time of transition for the platform, and there's keen interest in understanding how the new UI impacts how we use it now and into the future. Here are some links to keep up with the rapid-fire changes and ways they affect the work of expert searchers! What's new and upcoming: The Research Platforms Roadmap filtered to EBSCOhost New EBSCO User Interfaces – Release Notes New EBSCO User Interface Updates for Advanced Search and Systematic Reviews EBSCO Experience Manager – Release Notes  (ways to customize your institution's interface!) Essential help files: EBSCO Database Help Files  (now in Connect rather than the database platform itself) Searching with Field Codes (downloadable comprehensive list for all databases) From the UX Caucus: EBSCOhost Idea Exchange: A Synthesis of Reported Issues  (December 2025) Problems, tickets, and enhancement requests in thirteen categories (e.g., search box behavio...

One big frustration expert searchers have identified in the new EBSCOhost user interface (UI) is the inaccessibility of the search history when viewing search results. Never fear! You can now customize the functionality of the Advanced Search Results Page -- or at least, your institution's EBSCO administrator can. The Advanced version of the Advanced Search Results Page (yes, we recognize that language is a little redundant) puts the Search history toggle between the search boxes and results, similar to the old UI, and offers some of the old search history options. The Search history here operates similarly to, but not exactly the same as, Recent activity in My dashboard in the left navigation sidebar. When toggled open on the Advanced Search Results Page, Search history allows you to: Select sets and combine them with either AND or OR using the provided buttons. (Just typing set numbers and Boolean operators in the search boxes also still works, no matter what search page you...