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Questia Makes More Than 3,500 Taylor and Francis Titles Available Online
Published: Fri, 4 Mar 2005, 12:14 EDT
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By Aria C. Munro
Staff Writer, Publishers Newswire
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HOUSTON, TX -- Questia Media, Inc., the world's largest online academic library, has added more than 3,500 titles from the Taylor & Francis Group to its extensive online collection of over 50,000 academically vetted, full-text books and 400,000 journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. The agreement adds a wide variety of books to Questia's scholarly collection focused in the humanities and social sciences.
"For more than six years, Questia has been at the forefront of efforts to provide researchers and educators with online access to the most current, copyrighted content available. Our agreement with Taylor & Francis adds a wealth of titles from a highly respected academic publisher to our first-rate collection," said Troy Williams, president and CEO of Questia Media. "We respect and value the close ties Taylor & Francis has with the academic community, and look forward to providing them with another distribution vehicle for their titles."
Taylor & Francis is one of more than 250 academic and commercial publishers who have licensed content to the Questia library. Other publishers include: Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; Greenwood Publishing Group; Perseus Books Group; Stanford University Press; Columbia University Press; Allen & Unwin; Brookings Institution Press; Lynne Rienner Publishers; MIT Press; M.E. Sharpe Publishers; Palgrave Macmillan; Peter Lang Publishing; Princeton University Press and Prometheus Books among many others.
Questia's innovative business model of a low monthly subscription fee provides individuals the ability to pay for access to a massive collection of first-rate, copyrighted content while ensuring that publishers are compensated appropriately for its use.
In addition, publishers' intellectual property is protected from digital copyright violation because Questia's content is not available for download or off-line viewing and the books are displayed one page at a time, maintaining the original pagination. Publishers gain a new revenue stream from existing and out-of-print titles, and more individuals gain access to their titles, ultimately increasing brand awareness.
"Taylor & Francis is committed to publishing scholarly information of the highest quality," said Christoph Chesher, group sales director for Taylor & Francis Group. "Our new partnership with Questia is an important aspect of our e-strategy. Since last year, individuals have been able to purchase access to our titles individually through our own eBookstore. Now, we are pleased to provide individuals and researchers from around the world with the ability to purchase instant access to a collection of our titles through Questia."
Questia has pioneered a business model that hundreds of thousands of individual subscribers, as well as many of the world's leading publishers have validated. Through Questia, teachers, students, and scholars in over 190 countries have access anytime, anywhere to a first-rate, 24-hour library focused on the humanities and social sciences.
Questia transforms the research experience by enabling users to instantly search every word of a 20 million page-collection of peer-reviewed, previously published content that is not available anywhere else on the Internet. In addition, Questia delivers 21st century research tools and a customizable research environment, allowing users quickly and easily to 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.
Questia also solves traditional research problems, such as missing or checked-out books, books unavailable due to reserve lists, and limited research facility hours, by permitting an unlimited number of simultaneous users and providing individual researchers with complete freedom and mobility to use the online library from any Internet-enabled computer, night and day.
For $19.95 a month, $44.95 a quarter, or $119.95 a year, individuals can have unlimited access to Questia's growing collection of more than 50,000 academically vetted, full-text books and 400,000 journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. Secondary school students and educators gain access to Questia's 21st century academic library based on the number of individual subscriptions purchased by each school or district.
About Questia
Questia Media, Inc. provides the world's largest online academic library and research resource. Students, instructors, and lifelong learners in more than 190 countries use Questia's collection of full-text, copyrighted and public domain books and articles for scholarly research.
A digital toolkit enables researchers to highlight text, properly cite passages, and automatically generate bibliographies and footnotes. In addition, Questia provides a personalized workspace for each user, complete with an individual bookshelf and reference resources. Designed for use by educators and students to enhance curricula, the Questia service also includes a course management system that integrates the digital library content into the classroom.
Questia's unlimited, 24/7 access allows researchers to simultaneously use every item in its online, scholarly library from any connected corner of the world.
Founded in 1998, Questia Media is based in Houston. For more information, visit www.questia.com
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