Questia Media Makes Online Library Available on iPhone, iPod Touch

Questia Media Inc., the provider of the world’s largest online library available to end consumers, is now reaching out to all iPhone and iPod Touch customers interested in expanding their knowledge base. The entire Questia Media collection is now available through a new research application on Apple (News - Alert) devices.  

Aptly named Questia Library, the application is designed to provide mobile access to the full text of 74,000 books and more than 2 million journal, magazine and newspaper articles. The collection is made up of mostly copyrighted works, selected and organized by professional librarians to facilitate academic research in the humanities and social sciences.

 

“The research process is becoming increasingly mobile,” said Tim Harris, president and CEO of Questia, in a statement. “Questia Library enables students and other researchers who are on the move to search, browse, skim, and read a large and valuable collection for the same price they might pay for a single ebook.  Questia Library delivers amazing resources all in the palm of your hand.”

With this application, browsing for research purposes is easier than ever as it allows users to quickly navigate Questia’s subject category schema and drill down to one of 6,700 research topic pages, including psychology of war or magical realism.On these pages, users can view the top librarian-recommended books and articles for that topic.

Beyond mobile access, Questia Library users can also log into their accounts through any computer with an Internet connection to access the full suite of research tools to create project folders, quote and cite publications, generate automatic bibliographies, bookmark pages, add items to a bookshelf, take digital notes and highlight text.

The bookmark, bookshelf, and view highlight features are available in the application now; other tools are scheduled to release in a later version.

IPhone and iPod Touch users can access the Questia Library today from the App Store in iTunes for 99 cents. This access is permanent to 5,000 public domain books and for one week to every publication in the Questia Library. After one week, users may purchase additional access to the full library through iTunes on a non-recurring basis.

For more information, visit: http://www.questia.com/questialibraryplus.

Questia Media partners with more than 325 leading publishers in order to provide the world’s largest online academic library and research resource to end consumers on a subscription basis.

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This latest addition to the iTunes store extends the value of the iPhone (News - Alert) and iPod Touch even further. Whether a user is searching for supporting documentation or facilitating a more in-depth research project, the information is literally at their fingertips.