Hershey, PA -- January 16th, 2024. IGI Global, a leading international academic publisher, has opted to discontinue offering its e-books on the Gale e-Book platform, effective April 1st, 2024.

Libraries and institutions that have previously acquired IGI Global e-books through Gale will retain access to their purchased e-books. However, effective April 1st, 2024, it is important to note that new IGI Global e-books will no longer be accessible on the Gale e-Book platform. Furthermore, all existing e-books will be removed from this platform, and libraries, institutions, and consortiums will no longer be able to acquire them through Gale.

IGI Global provides several alternative options for acquiring and accessing its collection of 8,000+ e-books. All IGI Global e-books will be readily available for licensing on IGI Global's platform, EBSCO's E-Book platform, and ProQuest's E-Book Central platform. These options offer a range of licensing options, including single-user, three-user, and unlimited-user access, all without DRM (Digital Rights Management) restrictions.

Notably, IGI Global's platform, in addition to the EBSCO E-Book and ProQuest E-Book Central platforms, is available for hosting e-books through individual licensing or via approval plan set-up on the industry's leading library service providers, including GOBI, OASIS, and Rialto.

For libraries that have previously designated Gale e-Book as their preferred choice within their approval plans, IGI Global encourages direct communication with us or contacting your provider's representative to update this preference to one of the platform options.

By selecting IGI Global's platform as your individual e-book acquisition or approval plan preference, libraries and institutions can capitalize on the opportunity to license e-books with no DRM and unlimited-user access, all at the same price as the single-user license on the aggregate platform options, thus optimizing access opportunities for patrons while enhancing budget reach.

For further information or inquiries, please visit our website at www.igi-global.com or contact Nick Newcomer, Vice President of Sales & Marketing directly at nnewcomer@igi-global.com.

About IGI Global – Publishing Tomorrow's Research Today

Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA with a subsidiary office (IGI Science and Technology, Ltd.) operating out of Beijing, China, IGI Global is a leading medium-sized independent international academic publisher of cutting-edge, high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly reference publications in the three major academic subject areas of Business & Management, Scientific, Technical, & Medical (STM), and Education. With a commitment to facilitating the discovery of pioneering scientific research, this publishing house has empowered over 200,000+ expert researchers from leading institutions globally to bring advanced research books from conceptualization to completion in an impressive 6-9 months from proposal acceptance to publication. IGI Global journal articles have a rapid turnaround, on average taking 2-4 weeks, and are then added to a significant portfolio of nearly 200 journals within IGI Global's Open Access Journal Program. IGI Global is one of the largest 100% OA Journal Publishers in the World. Through traditional and open access publishing workflows, this unique proprietary process makes tomorrow's research available to the research community today.