IGI Global is a privately-held

Privately held company

A privately held company or close corporation is a business company owned either by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the...

 international publishing company

Publishing

Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information—the activity of making information available to the general public...

 headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania

Hershey, Pennsylvania

Hershey is a census-designated place in Derry Township, Dauphin County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The community is located 14 miles east of Harrisburg and is part of the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area. Hershey has no legal status as an incorporated municipality...

, United States. The company is a publisher of journals, books, encyclopedias, and teaching cases on information science

Information science

-Introduction:Information science is an interdisciplinary science primarily concerned with the analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information...

 and IT management

Information technology management

IT management is the discipline whereby all of the technology resources of a firm are managed in accordance with its needs and priorities. These resources may include tangible investments like computer hardware, software, data, networks and data centre facilities, as well as the staffs who are...

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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.

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

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

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