Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced enhancements to Learning Centers and Business Basics, its suite of corporate learning resources. The aim is to make it easier for corporate learning and training professionals to offer premium learning content in their formal and e-learning programmes. EBSCO's Learning Centers and Business Basics are projected to offer broad coverage of current thinking on a wide range of core competencies, as well as information for new managers and managers covering new areas within a corporation.
EBSCO's 10 learning centres offer resources leveraging periodical content refined to support specific learning and training needs. Each of the learning centres provides ideal current learning content for corporate training and development applications. These databases are seen to support the ongoing career development needs of management and other professionals through access to relevant articles from renowned magazines and journals.
Business Basics provides more than 500 concise overviews of key business terms, concepts and practices that modern managers encounter. The overviews average 3,000 words and are designed to help managers develop an understanding of a given topic while also enabling readers to apply the concepts to their jobs.
The articles are organised in sections to assist users in quickly locating the most relevant parts of each article including executive summaries of each topic; keywords pertinent to the article; an overview of the topic; applications to outline how the points in the overview can be applied to business; critical issues to enable managers to develop a critical perspective on the topic; and a glossary of terms and concepts.
EBSCO's Learning Centers and Business Basics join Business Book Summaries (executive summaries of top business books) to round out the suite of products EBSCO offers to corporate learning departments. Content from the Learning Centers and Business Book Summaries may be mapped to applicable competencies and utilised in both formal and informal learning environments. Departmental subject matter experts can use the full-text content from all these EBSCO resources to create training guides for staff at all levels.
