Questia Media, Inc., provider of the world’s largest online library available to end consumers, has made its entire collection available through a new research application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The application, called Questia Library, provides mobile access to the full text of 74,000 books and over 2 million journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.
The collection consists mostly of copyrighted works and is selected and organized by professional librarians to facilitate academic research in the humanities and social sciences. The application makes browsing for research purposes easier than ever, allowing users to quickly navigate Questia’s subject category schema and drill down to one of 6,700 research topic pages, such as psychology of war or magical realism, where they can view the top librarian-recommended books and articles for that topic. In addition to mobile access, Questia Library users can log in to their accounts through any computer with an Internet connection and access Questia’s 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 with the other tools scheduled to release in a later version. Questia Library for iPhone/iPod Touch is available today from the App Store in iTunes for 99¢, giving users permanent access to 5,000 public domain books and 1 week of access to every publication in Questia Library. After one week, users may purchase additional access to the full library through iTunes on a non-recurring basis.
