{"id":1511,"date":"2026-01-20T09:09:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2026-01-26T13:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:43:09","slug":"new-and-improved-academic-search-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/01\/20\/new-and-improved-academic-search-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"New and improved Academic Search Complete!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EBSCOHost provides the University of Kent with access to many databases, including <strong>Academic Search Complete<\/strong>, that you may use to find journal articles, conference proceedings, and more.<\/p>\n<p>From<strong> 5<\/strong> <strong>Jan 2026, the interface for these databases has changed, and you may notice this<\/strong> when searching for content.<\/p>\n<p>The landing page has a new, simplified look ( see below). You can still search an individual database, a selection of databases, or all the databases we subscribe to at once.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/connect.ebsco.com\/servlet\/rtaImage?eid=ka0UT000000P2v1&amp;feoid=00N1H00000GxReU&amp;refid=0EMUT000005uRKP\" alt=\"Discovery Service basic search screen\" \/><\/p>\n<p>EBSCOhost has introduced these improvements to enhance accessibility and usability.<\/p>\n<p>Features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ability to <strong>use natural language<\/strong> in your search<\/li>\n<li>better display across <strong>multiple devices<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>simplifed design to <strong>reduce overwhelm<\/strong> on the page<\/li>\n<li>easy to access quick filters<\/li>\n<li>transcripts for video content and<strong> text to speech functions<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>descriptive text for images and other media content<\/li>\n<li><strong>33 languages<\/strong> to use for translation purposes<\/li>\n<li><strong>options to select region to narrow down to research output from specific geographical areas<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have customised your EBSCO database experience by creating a personal account, then you can log in and access any saved folders and results.<\/p>\n<p>You will need to reset any search alerts that you may have set up, however. To do this, please follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.ebsco.com\/s\/article\/Creating-and-Managing-Search-Alerts-in-the-New-EBSCO-User-Interfaces?language=en_US\">EBSCOHost guidance on setting up search alerts.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have any further questions or problems using the new EBSCOhost then please contact <a href=\"mailto:academiclibrary@kent.ac.uk\">academiclibrary@kent.ac.uk<\/a> to help resolve this<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EBSCOHost provides the University of Kent with access to many databases, including Academic Search Complete, that you may use to find journal articles, conference proceedings, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/01\/20\/new-and-improved-academic-search-complete\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56317,"featured_media":791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[205698,312387],"tags":[150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}