IGI Global (formerly known as Idea Group, Inc.) is a privately-held international publishing company headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States.[1] The company is a publisher of journals, books, encyclopedias, and teaching cases on information science and IT management.
It was founded in 1988 and currently publishes under five imprints: Information Science Reference, Medical Information Science Reference, Business Science Reference, Engineering Science Reference, and IGI Publishing.[2]
In 2002, IGI Global began launching a series of electronic databases, including InfoSci-Journals, InfoSci-Books and InfoSci-On-Demand. InfoSci-Subject Databases and Business-Technology-Solution were later launched. These full-text electronic resources offer access to IGI Global’s entire collection of book, journal, and case publications in an XML-powered platform.[3]