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The EBSCOhost interface provides access to a range of databases, e-journals and e-books. The databases are particularly useful for identifying journal articles and other publications on a particular topic within the subject areas covered by each database.
It is possible to select and search more than one database at the same time. However, doing this will disable the thesaurus feature and so it is not advised for comprehensive or systematic searching.
Please note, this guide is for the new EBSCOhost interface. If you are a member of NHS staff, accessing EBSCOhost databases via NHS England Open Athens, you should refer to the online guide for the classic version of the EBSCOhost interface. The new EBSCOhost interface will be launched for NHS staff on 1st December 2025.
Here are some of the key databases available via the EBSCO platform:
You can see a full list of all the databases available through the platform by accessing any EBSCOhost database and then clicking on the name of the database above the search box: this will open a list of all available databases and you can select one or more to search.
Please note that when using the databases Business Source Ultimate and EconLit, you may arrive at a different search interface compared to all other EBSCO databases that use the regular user interface. These two databases use the EBSCO Business Search Interface that allows business researchers to discover quickly different publication types that are used heavily in the business and economics subject area. You can find out more about the different search interface used on these databases on the Searching Business Source Ultimate and EconLit page.
ERIC - a key indexing database for education and the social sciences - is undergoing significant changes whose full implications aren't clear yet.
At this stage it appears that new content will continue to be indexed and no existing content will be removed unless it is retracted by its publisher.
The US Institute of Education (IES) is currently estimating the volume of content which will be indexed next year and will share further information in due course (last updated 4th July 2025).
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