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Questia can help your students in the entire research process, from topic selection to research to organization of their notes

Questia is the online library that helps your students conduct better research, use a wider array of scholarly sources, and organize what they've learned into a better-thought-out paper.

The scholarly books and journal articles in the Questia collection are complete; we have digitized every page, cover-to-cover. Professional collection development librarians have made the choices of materials using the same principles as academic libraries employ. The Questia library covers all the fields of the humanities and social sciences.

Students can trace paths of scholarship through hyperlinked footnotes and bibliographies, thereby increasing the range of sources they can use for their papers. Students have access to material they would not otherwise be able to get for a variety of reasons:

• Some relevant materials may not be held by their campus library
• Some relevant material may already be checked out by another student
• Some relevant material may not come to their attention through traditional searches in the library catalog

Students who use Questia should submit better papers than those who don't, not only because it increases the total resources available to students, but also because it improves their access to these works. Questia expands the time students can use a library. Questia is open when students want to work, during times of the day and night when the campus library is closed. However, the Questia online library does not replace the campus library. On the contrary, it should improve and increase student use of the traditional library because by searching the Questia collection, students may find works in their libraries that they could have missed in a traditional catalog search.

Professional librarians with years of experience in academic libraries select titles for the Questia collection. Questia ensures that the electronic versions of all books mirror the original pagination to the fullest extent possible. We check and double-check every text to maintain the highest level of accuracy and integrity of the digitized titles.

Besides scholarly content, Questia also provides easy-to-use search, note-taking, and writing tools for students to use.

• Free search function allows anyone to search the library at no charge
• Search - by keyword, phrase, topic, author, or title

• Write margin notes and highlight passages to personalize the text
• Keep and organize notes and references in personal online folders
• Create properly formatted footnotes and bibliographies in various styles (Chicago Manual of Style, Turabian, MLA, ASA, etc.). This feature helps students avoid plagiarism and ensures accurate citation
• Use convenient reference books like the American Heritage Dictionary, Columbia Encyclopedia Sixth Edition, and Roget's II:   The New Thesaurus

Questia is a company with academic goals. We are committed to academic integrity. You may check suspicious papers against our collection free of charge.

If you wish to expand the scholarly resources available to your students and the effectiveness of their research, Questia is the online library that can deliver on that promise. It is a resource that you can recommend with confidence.