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CQU is moving to a new version of EBSCOhost 

When is the new EBSCOhost interface going live?

The new interface will go live on Tuesday February 11, 2025. You can check out a preview of the new interface now.

What happens to my saved items, searches and alerts?

For students, researchers and staff that currently use EBSCOhost's personalisation features such as saving items, saving searches, shared folders as well as search and journal alerts please refer to the information below regarding what is being migrated to the new interface. 

Options listed in the 'Options for moving your saved data to the new interface' section below will need to be completed prior to Tuesday February 11, 2025.

All EBSCOhost databases listed below, will be migrating to the new interface:

 

  • Academic Search Ultimate
  • Applied Science & Technology Source Ultimate
  • Australia / New Zealand Reference Centre Plus eBook Subscription (EBSCOhost)
  • Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Plus
  • Business Source Ultimate
  • CAB Abstracts
  • CINAHL Ultimate
  • eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
  • eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
  • Education Source Ultimate
  • ERIC
  • GreenFILE
  • Health Business Elite
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
  • Humanities Source Ultimate
  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
  • MasterFILE Complete
  • MasterFILE Complete Reference eBook Subscription (EBSCOhost)
  • MasterFILE Premier Reference eBook Subscription (EBSCOhost)
  • Newspaper Source Plus
  • Newswires
  • Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
  • Regional Business News
  • Sociology Source Ultimate
  • SPORTDiscus with Full Text
  • Teacher Reference Center

The following data will be available in the new interface.

  • Selected My Folder subfolders - these are already synced and available in the new interface:
    • Articles
    • Images
    • Videos
    • Ebooks
    • Checkouts
    • Holds
  • My Folder - Saved Searches - It is recommended that prior to Tuesday February 11 you review your saved searches in the preview of the new interface to ensure they have been properly synced.

The following data is not being migrated or synced with the new interface. Please refer to the section 'Options for moving your saved data to the new interface' below for suggestions on how to move this data to the new interface.

  1. Selected My Folder subfolders:
    • Companies
    • Pages
    • Audiobooks
    • Notes
    • Other Content Sources
    • Persistent Links to Searches
  2. Alerts - both search and journal alerts.
  3. My Custom folders - any data saved in your custom folders.

Please note these need to be completed prior to Tuesday February 11, 2025. 

Below are some options you can use to move data that is not going to be automatically migrated to the new interface.

1. Search and Journal Alerts

Option 1: Change your Search Alerts to a Saved Search in your My Folder - the Saved Search will then migrate to the new interface in early January 2025. You will then be able to re-create a Search Alert in the new interface.

Please refer to EBSCO's Creating saved searches from a search alert video.

Option 2: Recreate the search alert in the new interface (and then delete from classic interface to avoid duplicate email alerts).

Please refer to EBSCO's Creating search alerts on the new EBSCO user interfaces video.

 

2. My Custom folder data

Articles and eBooks

Option 1: Move saved items from your custom folders to My Folder - these will then automatically sync with the new user interface now:

  1. Go to the custom folder you want to move
  2. Select all the articles (or ebooks), and
  3. Move to the My Folder option.

Option 2: Save, email or export the saved items for future reference (e.g. download as RIS/EndNote file or CSV).

Please refer to EBSCO's Save or export items from custom folders video.

 

3. Saved searches

Move saved searches from your custom folder to My Folder - these will automatically move to the new interface in early January 2025. It is recommended you include the name of the custom folder in your saved search so you can identify it in the new platform.

Please refer to EBSCO's  Moving saved searches from custom folders to MyFolder video.