EBSCO Information Services Expands Linked Data Capabilities with the EBSCO Scholarly Graph

~ New Features Launch as Part of the Company's Linked Data Initiative to Advance Research Transparency and Discovery ~

IPSWICH, Mass., Sept. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is introducing new ways for researchers to explore and evaluate scholarship through the EBSCO Scholarly Graph (ESG), a linked data framework that connects scholarly entities, including people, publications and topics. By structuring relationships across hundreds of millions of records, ESG enables researchers to uncover connections, trace impact and navigate the scholarly information network more intuitively. As a knowledge graph focused on scholarly content, it provides the foundation for new discovery experiences and future enhancements across EBSCO platforms.

ESG is built by aggregating metadata from trusted sources and enriching it with contextual relationships and standardized identifiers. The graph contains nearly 900 million entities, including works, authors, organizations and topics, and more than 3.8 billion relationships, such as citations and authorship, modeled within the Builde ontology. Builde, a streamlined version of the Library of Congress's BIBFRAME model, provides a flexible vocabulary for describing scholarly works and relationships. To ensure researchers have access to the most current information, ESG is updated daily.

The first set of new features powered by ESG, Citation Discovery, is now available in EBSCO Discovery Service^™ (EDS) and EBSCOhost^®. Citation Discovery helps researchers see how works are connected and understand their impact within the academic community. Citations demonstrate where and how often a work has been cited by other publications, helping researchers follow the influence of an article and see how scholarship develops over time. References display the sources cited within a work, allowing researchers to uncover authoritative studies that shaped their findings and to explore related scholarship with ease.

EBSCO Senior Vice President of Product Management, Discovery, UX & Platform Services, Timothy Lull, says ESG reflects EBSCO's broader commitment to advancing research infrastructure. "Linked data is reshaping how scholarship is shared and understood. By building on open frameworks with the EBSCO Scholarly Graph, we are helping libraries and researchers navigate an increasingly complex information landscape with greater simplicity and transparency."

Citation Discovery marks the beginning of a broader series of linked data enhancements made possible by the EBSCO Scholarly Graph. Future updates will expand these capabilities with features such as retraction badges that clearly identify retracted articles in search results, enriched records, and detailed citation lists. Additional features, such as People Pages that connect works to their authors and co-author networks, are also planned to provide even greater transparency and context to the scholarly record.

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