Chicago (September 28, 2004) – Questia Media Inc., the world’s largest online academic library, today received the Rookie of the Year Award at the 16 th Annual Educational and Telecommunications Markets Conference (EdNET 2004). This prestigious award is given annually to an emerging organization that demonstrates the greatest promise to make a significant contribution to the educational technology industry in the coming year.
“In just under five years, we’ve created the world’s largest online collection of academically vetted full-text books, along with a customizable research environment and a powerful set of technology-empowered research tools for students,” said Troy Williams, CEO of Questia. “Gaining recognition from our education technology industry colleagues is a strong testament to Questia’s emerging leadership in the industry, as well as our tremendous impact on students and educators. In fact, everyday we receive feedback from the education community about how our online library has transformed the educational experience for all students – giving them a new and better way to instantly access research material right down to the relevant paragraph.”
To be considered for EdNET’s Rookie of the Year award, a company must have developed a new product or service within the education technology industry that promises to substantially impact education.
Questia’s online academic library enables students to gain anytime, anywhere access to a first-rate, 24-hour library focused in the English Language Arts and Social Studies. The online library includes more than 50,000 academically vetted, full-text books and more than 400,000 journal articles, as well as a customizable online research environment and a powerful set of research tools. As a result, students can quickly and easily set their own workspace and reading preferences, create project folders and personal bookshelves and automatically develop properly formatted footnotes and bibliographies in seven different citation styles.Founded in 1998, Questia Media, Inc., launched its revolutionary online library in January 2001, with powerful search and writing tools created specifically to help students do better research and write better papers. Questia provides unlimited access to the full content of an extensive collection of books and journal articles, as well as a wide range of tools, including highlighter, markup, automatic footnotes and bibliography builder. For millions of students and researchers, the Questia SM service enables them to efficiently research and compose papers at any time, from virtually every connected corner of the world. Based in Houston, Questia is delivering on the true promise of the Internet by providing access to a wealth of human knowledge.
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