E-research and educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, has acquired the assets of Questia Media, Inc., a provider of information and educational resources to students. Questia provides a premium subscription-based online information service that gives users access to more than 76,000 books from over 300 publishers and millions of articles from journals, magazines and newspapers.
Questia will further broaden Gale’s extensive content base, by adding information from tens of thousands of scholarly books selected from leading publishers to support learning in high school and college. In addition, it will enhance Gale’s offerings with new research and productivity tools, lesson plans and professional development for the classroom.
Recent product access enhancements introduced by Questia include an iPhone application enabling mobile access to Questia’s entire library; and Research Wizard, a Facebook application that facilitates community research. Gale will support these and develop other new applications to enhance the research experience for users.
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