Monday, October 15, 2007
Do you have a Questia?

As the Internet continues to expand by the minute, there are a plethora of tools available for those who venture the web.

Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles. You can search by word, phrase, title, author, or subject. It's like having the Dewey Decimal System at your fingertips whenever you call on it.

There are many places to access information on the WWW, but Questia offers some extra perks for high school and college students, because there are tools to write notes in the margins and highlight passages as if you were working with actual physical books. Plus it will show you how to create properly formatted footnotes and bibliographies automatically. I know citations were always difficult for me, so I'm impressed by that feature. Questia keeps track of which resources you use and automatically records them, thus creating a bibliography.

Some components require small fees, but there are over 5,000 free books as well! These are complete books cover to cover - read or search any page or all of the book. So it's not just tiny little excerpts that won't help you with your papers.

Oh, one last thing..unlike other libraries, no book is ever "checked out" - one less frustration for you. ;o)

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