Digital Library of 400 books on Sustainability
Sheffield (UK), April 2013 - Greenleaf Publishing and GSE Research, specialist publishers and partners of The European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), have launched a new online collection of books and journals on sustainability, CSR, corporate governance, ethics, environmental policy and management, and related fields.
Containing almost 400 volumes, the Sustainable Organization Library (SOL) gives instant access to an international collection for use in study, research, and executive education. The books and journals in SOL have not previously been available as a collection, and many have never been available at all digitally.
Furthermore, the Sustainable Organization Library includes subscriptions to Greenleaf’s Journal of Corporate Citizenship, and Business Peace and Sustainable Development journals. It also draws on material from a number of international publishing partners.
Greenleaf Director John Peters said, "There has never been a more pressing need to bring sustainability into business practice and management education. This can’t be seen as ‘nice to do’ any more – it’s must do."
"Sustainability is one of the key issues for the 21st century, and this is an exceptional collection that will be of great value to business schools, companies, and NGOs all over the world," said Prof. Eric Cornuel, CEO & Director General, EFMD.
SOL is available to buy outright or on an annual subscription basis and is hosted on the well-established IngentaConnect platform. SOL operates under the simple and straightforward SERU (Shared e-Resource Understanding) license created by NISO, the US National Standards Institute, with no digital rights management (DRM) restrictions. This makes SOL available to all members of an organization.
In the SOL collection, each chapter or paper– more than 5,000 – is tagged individually, so users can easily find individual items that are relevant to them.
Professor Simon Mercado, Associate Dean at Nottingham Business School commented, "This is a welcome innovation for all of us committed to responsible leadership values and sustainability-related research and education."
Greenleaf Publishing was launched 21 years ago, following the first Rio Earth Summit in 1992. It now has representation in the USA and India, as well as publishing offices in Leeds and Sheffield, UK. Greenleaf is an independent publisher that works in partnership with many international organizations, including EFMD, PRME, and the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education.
