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Questia Media Announces Agreement With America Online
Agreement Provides Online Library In Time For Back-to-School
HOUSTON (July 19, 2001) - Questia Media, the first online library, announced an agreement with America Online (NYSE: AOL), the world's leading interactive services company, to provide Questia's online library resources to AOL members and Netscape users.
Under the agreement, Questia will sponsor portions of the AOL's Research & Learn Channel, which offers students and lifelong learners a gateway to knowledge by providing a one-stop shop for conducting research and learning more about specialized topics.
Questia will also be available as an online library within Netscape's Research & Learn area and will sponsor the AOL Parenting areas of Homework Help and Back to School. In addition, the agreement provides AOL members who access the specified Questia links on the Research & Learn Channel a one-month free trial of the Questia service, which features major scholarly books and leading journal articles for undergraduate students in the liberal arts.
"Having an online library available in your home is one of the resources that is continually requested by our members," said Terry Crane, vice president of AOL Education. "With the Questia online library, students and researchers will have 24-hour, seven-day-a-week access to a library of the same scholarly books found in the best collegiate libraries. We believe Questia will be a valuable and complementary addition to our Research & Learn Channel."
"With the steady increase of technology in today's classrooms, our agreement with America Online is great news for the increasing number of people who use the Internet as an academic tool," said Troy Williams, founder and CEO of Questia Media, Inc. "It will provide students, parents, teachers and lifelong learners who visit AOL's Research & Learn access to more than 45,000 high-quality books and journal articles available in the Questia online library. With millions of AOL members visiting the Research & Learn Channel on a monthly basis, Questia will be able to reach and offer special promotions to a highly-targeted audience that is predisposed to learning and continued education."
As students increasingly migrate online for academic resources (school related research is the number two most important reason to use the Internet as cited by Student Monitor, Fall 2000), Questia will satisfy their need for high-quality, credible content. Users can search the titles in the Questia library for free, while a subscription fee enables subscribers to read the entire book. Questia's scholarly library is combined with tools that facilitate research and paper writing such as the automated footnote and bibliography generator, highlighter, dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus and personalization tools.
About Questia
Founded in 1998, Questia Media, Inc., launched its revolutionary online library with powerful search and writing tools created specifically to help students write better papers faster in January 2001. Questia provides unlimited access to the full-text of an extensive collection of books, as well as a wide range of tools including highlighter, markup, automatic footnotes and bibliography builder. For millions of students and researchers, the QuestiaSM service will enable them to efficiently research and compose papers at any time, from virtually every connected corner of the world. Based in Houston with offices in New York and Los Angeles, Questia is delivering on the true promise of the Internet by providing access to a wealth of human knowledge. Visit www.questia.com for more information.
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