IGI Global - operating today as IGI Global Scientific Publishing - is an independent academic publisher founded in 1988 by a former Pennsylvania State University professor and headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, with offices in New York, London, and Beijing. Its niche is applied research at the intersection of technology and its host disciplines: business and management, information science and computing, education, and the social sciences. The portfolio spans nearly 200 peer-reviewed journals - all of them now fully gold open access - alongside more than 10,000 scholarly books, handbooks, and encyclopedias.

Two things distinguish an IGI Global submission from one to a large legacy publisher. First, every journal is open access: there is no subscription route for new articles, and every accepted paper is published under a CC BY 4.0 license after payment of an article processing charge (APC). Second, indexing varies title by title - some journals are covered by Scopus and Web of Science while others are not - so checking the specific journal's indexing status is an essential pre-submission step. This guide covers journal selection, APCs and waivers, peer review, submission mechanics, and ethics.

IGI Global organizes its journal program into three broad subject clusters. Use the guide below to shortlist a venue, then verify scope and indexing on the journal's own page.

• Nearly 200 gold open-access journals across business & management, STM (computing-heavy), and education & social sciences. Flagship titles include Journal of Global Information Management, Journal of Organizational and End User Computing, and Journal of Database Management.
• 10,000+ books with 200,000+ chapters - reference books, research handbooks, encyclopedias, and casebooks; open-access book and chapter options exist alongside sales to libraries.
• Legacy journal archives (2000-2022) - sold to libraries as a subscription or perpetual-access collection of 32,000+ articles; new journal content is all open access.

Articles are distributed through major discovery channels including ScienceDirect, EBSCO, ProQuest, and ResearchGate, and archived via CLOCKSS and LOCKSS.

IGI Global converted its entire journal collection to gold open access in accordance with funder mandates such as Plan S - one of the few mid-sized commercial publishers to flip the whole portfolio rather than run a hybrid program. The key numbers from the publisher's current fee schedule:

All OA content is published under a CC BY 4.0 license with copyright retained by the author. Waivers are available on request, and Chinese authors can pay in RMB via SOCOpay or PubLink. Libraries can license a flat-fee unlimited OA publishing agreement or a Read & Publish agreement that covers APCs for affiliated authors - ask your librarian before paying out of pocket. Authors of older paywalled IGI Global articles can also use the retrospective OA program to convert previously published work to CC BY. APCs are reviewed regularly, so always check the journal's current fee page before submission.

Indexing at IGI Global is genuinely mixed and is the single most important thing to verify before submitting. Many journals are indexed in Scopus, Web of Science (including ESCI), Inspec, or ERIC, and the publisher reports that a large share of frontlist books achieve Scopus indexing - but coverage is per title, and some journals are not indexed in either major database. Confirm the current status in the Scopus source list or the Web of Science Master Journal List rather than relying on the journal's own page alone.

• Model: double-anonymized peer review on all journals - authors and reviewers are mutually anonymous.
• Ethics alignment: IGI Global is a full member of COPE and states that APC payment has no influence on review outcomes.
• Turnaround: the publisher markets fast, timely publication but does not publish portfolio-wide decision-time statistics; ask the editor-in-chief or check the individual journal page.

1. Pick the journal. Use the IGI Global journal catalog or its find-a-journal tool, and verify scope and indexing.
2. Prepare your manuscript in APA style. IGI Global journals use APA citation formatting; templates are available on SciSpace.
3. Submit via eEditorial Discovery. IGI Global's proprietary submission and peer-review platform handles submission, review, ORCID integration, and production tracking. Submission is free.
4. Respond to double-anonymized review. Keep identifying information out of the manuscript file.
5. Pay the APC after acceptance. The charge ($1,300-$4,000 depending on the journal) is requested only once the article is accepted; waiver and institutional-agreement routes apply here.

IGI Global is a full member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and publishes detailed ethics and malpractice policies covering plagiarism, duplicate submission, and authorship. Its position on fees is explicit: processing charges are requested only after acceptance, and payment has no bearing on editorial decisions. Content is preserved in CLOCKSS and LOCKSS. Historically the publisher drew criticism - Beall's List once characterized it as a vanity press - and its indexing coverage remains uneven, so the practical due-diligence step is title-level: confirm the target journal's index status and editorial board before you submit.