Questia Online Library

Questia is an online commercial digital library of books and articles with an academic orientation. It claims to be "the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences." [ see [http://www.questia.com/aboutQuestia/about.html website] ]

Questia offers some information for free, including several public domain works, publication information, tables of contents, the first page of every chapter, Boolean searches of the contents of the library, and short bibliographies of available books and articles on some 6500 topics. Most of their collection is under copyright, with Questia licensed to carry it on their website.

Questia does not sell ownership to books or ebooks, but rather sells monthly or annual subscriptions that allows temporary online reading access to all 67,000+ books, and 1,500,000+ journal, magazine, and newspaper articles in their collection. [ see [http://www.questia.com/aboutQuestia/exploreLibrary.html website] ] The books have been selected by academic librarians as credible, authoritative works in their respective areas. The librarians have also compiled about 7000 reference bibliographies on frequently researched topics. The library is strongest in books and journal articles in the social sciences and humanities, with many older historical texts. Original pagination has been maintained, critical for those wishing to cite the materials. The Questia service also features tools to automatically create citations and bibliographies, helping writers to properly cite the materials.

ee also

* List of digital library projects

References

External links

* [http://www.questia.com Questia Home Page]
* [http://www.questia.com/SM.qst?act=adv Search Questia]
* [http://www.questia.com/aboutQuestia/about.html About Questia Website Page]