Integrated Publishing System

Integrated Publishing System is a system released in 1982 for publishing multilingual literature.
According to the system description prepared by IBM, "The Integrated Publishing System provided text entry, interactive full-page composition, and output to an online phototypesetter for quality publications such as brochures, reports, manuals, books and magazines."
The software was developed by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society on an IBM mainframe computer using an Autologic typesetter. IPS was acquired by IBM, which intended to use the system to increase its hold on the publishing industry. The system was available until at least 1990.
The system went on to have some success commercially, being used to publishing the Encyclopædia Britannica - according to the account of the long-time editor-in-chief of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Robert McHenry, which was the first universal encyclopedia available in an electronic version.