EBSCOhost Databases: New Look and New Features

If you have saved any searches to your account in an EBSCOhost database on the old interface, then these searches will not automatically transfer over to the new interface. However, it will be possible for you to bring your saved searches over to the new interface. Information about how to transfer Saved Searches over from the old interface will be added to this guide as soon as possible.

If you have created custom folders in the old EBSCOhost interface (i.e. folders within an EBSCO database that you have given personalised names), it is important you export the contents of your custom folders before the interface switchover on 7th July. Your custom folders and the items within them will not transfer over to the new EBSCOhost interface, and there may be no way to retrieve them after the switchover. This is not something we have control over at SHU, since it is determined externally by EBSCO. 

To check whether you have custom folders in EBSCOhost, go to an EBSCOhost database and sign in to your MyEBSCO account. Click ‘Folder’ in the blue bar along the top of the screen. If you have any custom folders, they will appear under ‘My Custom’ on the left of the screen. 

You can export articles from a folder in the old EBSCO interface to RefWorks or another reference management platform, using the following process:

• Click on the folder name, then click Articles.
• Click Export in the panel to the right of the screen.
• Select the format which you would like to export the citations in, and click Save.
• Depending on the selected format, this will either open a new tab to export the citations directly or will open a new window to save the citations in a format that you will be able to import into your reference manager.