Questia.com - Faster And Easier Research

This website is an online resource that provides users with an online collection of books about social science and humanities. You can search for books, journals or articles by title, word, phrase, author or subject related to social science or humanities. It also offers a range of search note-taking, and writing tools in order to help the users locate the most relevant information on their topics quickly, quote and cite correctly, and create properly formatted footnotes and bibliographies automatically. You have to pay in order to read any book or article, but each week there is available a free book to read page by page. As a subscriber to Questia you can get your own personal workspace where you can organize your research in separate folders for easier access, review highlights, bookmarks, notes and citations you’ve made in our extensive library and Develop conclusions or identify gaps in your research.

“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 each and every word of all of the books and journal articles in the collection. You can read every title cover to cover. This rich, scholarly content -- selected by professional collection development librarians -- is not available elsewhere on the Internet.”

It is a very useful place for students to make their studies easier and quicker. The search for a book is very simple and once you locate it you are able to read it page by page. It gives to students the possibility to work on the article or book, giving to them powerful tools.

It is legal to publish online a complete book? Will students use this service instead of using the traditional one? As there are similar sites offering the same service all for free; why this one will be used by many users?