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Questia^SM provides your patrons with an ideal online supplement to your existing library collection.


Questia is an online scholarly library that augments and complements any academic library collection. Designed to provide students with convenient access to a collection of books and articles in the humanities and social sciences via the Internet, and to facilitate the research process across topics both broad and narrow, Questia can improve how students formulate topics, do research, and write papers. Questia contains the full text of all books in the collection, including the front and back matter.

The digital format of the collection provides access to all works in the collection no matter how many users are reading the texts or when and where they wish to do their work. Thus, users will have access to materials that you may not have in your collections or that are missing, checked out, or on reserve. For distance learners and working or part-time students who can't use library facilities during regular hours, Questia is the long-awaited answer. Students can use the Questia collection 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from any computer with an Internet connection.

Questia is easy to use and efficient. A user can search the collection at no cost. A subscription to Questia provides an individual with unlimited access to the materials in the collection and to our unique research tools. Students can perform powerful searches by keyword, phrase, title, author, and subject. Advanced searches can use Boolean and truncation.

Professional librarians with years of experience in academic collection development 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.

Although the agreements licensing the content on Questia from publishers prohibits us from selling directly to libraries, Questia is a great resource for librarians who routinely assist undergraduate students in their research efforts to recommend to their students. Librarians can use the free Questia search function to mine the contents of their own collections and direct students to appropriate titles in their stacks. Questia can help you help students find the right information quickly and easily.