Sustainability Watch™ New from EBSCO Publishing

Sustainability Watch™ New from EBSCO Publishing

Evidence-Based Monitoring Service Covering Developments in Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility Now Available from EBSCO Publishing--A new executive decision support tool leverages the best available evidence and develops reports that summarize existing expert conclusions derived from thousands of sources. Sustainability Watch may be integrated into corporate portals and Intranets allowing EBSCO's content to be incorporated into the workflow.

Ipswich, MA (PRWEB) November 3, 2009

EBSCO Publishing (http://www. ebscohost. com) (EBSCO) is introducing a new way for sustainability executives to monitor developments in sustainability. Focusing on revenue opportunities, savings potential, or regulatory and compliance requirements, Sustainability Watch™ (http://www. ebscohost. com/thisTopic. php? marketID=3&topicID=1339) is a powerful executive decision support tool from the providers of EBSCOhost®. Sustainability Watch provides evidence-based summaries on hundreds of sustainability topics in the areas of "people, planet and profit." The resource leverages the best available evidence in developing reports in an easily-consumed format to support executive decision-making and situational awareness.

Sustainability Watch editors monitor thousands of the best journals and magazine articles in order to provide best practices for a variety of sustainability topics in the areas of environmental impact mitigation, corporate citizenship and regulatory compliance. Sustainability Watch utilizes a non-biased, evidence-based methodology to create reports that do not offer opinions but instead summarize existing expert conclusions derived from the thousands of sources that are covered. If an article is published that presents a significant new finding or modifies a current conclusion, the appropriate Sustainability Watch report is updated and the user is alerted to the changes.

Sustainability Watch provides a robust executive decision support tool designed to be a valuable component in the executive information spectrum on the critical topic of sustainability. Filtering out the biased and often in-expert "noise" that is so prevalent in the sustainability arena, Sustainability Watch builds on EBSCO's collection of expert and peer-reviewed sustainability-related literature to present the user with non-biased actionable intelligence. By monitoring developments in the literature and following an established multi-step evidence-based literature surveillance process, Sustainability Watch provides users with the latest expert analysis and findings on sustainability issues, all based on the evidence that is presented.

Sustainability Watch has adapted EBSCO's core evidence-based methodology to areas of interest to corporate executives. The evidence-based approach identifies, selects and systematically evaluates pertinent information and creates a synthesis of the best available evidence. EBSCO's experience with evidence-based content includes the point-of-care resources it provides to hospitals and other medical institutions including the clinical decision support resource DynaMed™ (http://www. ebscohost. com/dynamed). In the coming months, EBSCO plans to offer similar executive decision-support tools based on proprietary, evidence-based content in the additional areas.

Sustainability Watch may be integrated into corporate portals and Intranets. The EBSCOhost® Integration Toolkit allows EBSCO's content to be incorporated into an organization's workflow--providing seamless access to premium content.

View a Sustainability Watch report about Cap-and-Trade Systems (http://budurl. com/SWCapandTrade).

About EBSCO Publishing:

EBSCO Publishing is the world's premier database aggregator serving the content needs of corporations, associations and organizations of all types. EBSCO offers a suite of nearly 300 full-text and secondary research databases providing content from tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers. Databases provide information for areas ranging from research & development and corporate learning to departmental and industry-specific topics. EBSCO's product lines include proprietary databases such as Business Source® Corporate, Business Book Summaries™, Learning Centers™, Business Basics™, Academic Search® R&D, Nonprofit Organization Reference Center™, and Health Library™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world, and may be integrated into corporate intranets, portals and learning management systems. For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www. ebscohost. com, or contact: information (at) ebscohost. com.

EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.

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