Talk:Questia Online Library

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[edit] Notability

I'm not positive this article should be speedied, but I have a strong suspicion, because 68.89.167.97 (talk · contribs) has been going around Wikipedia adding links to their commercial website, and also editing this article. Also I don't think this company is notable in any way. --Malathion 10:05, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

The company is extremely notable, actually. They have an exceptional collection of books, and unlike the non-notable sites, they're not public domain texts. Instead, they have purchased copyright licenses to innumerable scholarly works. This allows them to provide research services. The reason you might not have heard of them is that they're pretty exclusively scholarly and they do not allow subscriptions by libraries or corporations. Many university libraries will recommend Questia for their scholars to use at home. The text of this article isn't very advertising, either, so far as I can tell. Finally, though, advertising is not a criterion for speedy deletion at this time, though it is a criterion for deletion via Votes for Deletion (wp:vfd). I will remove the speedy tag. You believe that it's an ad, then please do add it to VfD. Geogre 17:47, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

i use questia everyday. i study puritan amercian literature and i live in algeria (north africa).very few books are available in our libraries and mainly in french. so questia saves my life. i found many books.as a comparison, i wanted to buy on amazon 3 books that would have cost 150 usd! with questia 20 usd per month.i can read and take quotes from hundred of intersting books.Djamila

I was thinking paying to use the service, and was wondering if other wikipedias use it for their article development. And, how do they keep a paying subscriber from sharing their log-in with others? Seems to me, only one person has to pay, and friends and family get to use it? Just curious.Giovanni33 01:51, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I've used Questia for over a year and highly recommend it. I do not have easy access to a research library---but even if I lived onb a campus I would be using this very convenient resource. Rjensen 02:15, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I guess I will have to treat myself to this resource very soon!Giovanni33 02:16, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

(prior discussion filed in this section Matt Whyndham 16:41, 26 September 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Neutrality

Assuming that the Questia service is notable, the article should be neutral. The present text reads like it was pulled straight from the service's own publicity. How does it compare, technically and in terms of resource quality and breadth, to other models of aggregated academic resources, e.g. Intute ? Matt Whyndham 16:40, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

There are no outlandish claims, just straight facts. Questia has far more text that Intute, which is basically a card catalog. It has maybe 20x as many books as the ACLS ebooks (which is subscription based). Rjensen 00:17, 27 September 2007 (UTC)