Questia Research app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Questia Media Inc.
First release : 23 Sep 2009
App size: 72.54 Mb
Questia is the world’s only full-featured academic research app for iOS, and its latest version is all-new and surely the best version yet. Get the most out of your Questia subscription by taking your research with you, no matter where you go.
Begin with powerful search capabilities atop a librarian-curated collection of over 89,000 academic books and ten million articles from over a thousand of the world’s leading publishers. Add a full suite of research and organizational tools, including Questia’s totally rethought and redesigned in-app reader with gesture-based highlighting and notation. Use your Questia account to access your saved work from any mobile device as well as additional tools and exclusive how-to guides on the Questia.com website.
Discover valuable sources, write better papers, and take your research to the next level. Because it’s more than an online library. It’s Questia.
Compatibility:
Compatible with iOS7.0 and higher. Please note the Questia Library is available for Questia accounts but NOT for Questia School accounts.
Recurring Billing:
Full access to Questia is available for purchase within the app. At the time of purchase, your iTunes account will be charged an initial amount of $19.99 for one month of access, $39.99 for three months of access, or $99.99 for one year of access. Amounts may vary depending on your local currency. Questia subscriptions will automatically renew at the same duration and price, and your iTunes account will be charged within 24 hours prior to the end of each subscription period. You may cancel by turning off auto-renewal in your Account Settings at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Use of the service is governed by our User Agreements.
Latest reviews of Questia Research app for iPhone and iPad
the program is supposed compatible with Ipad, but the definition is very poor. Reading via safari is much better. a purchase right for the trash as far as I am concerned le programme est dit compatible avec Ipad, mais la lecture sur Ipad est très mauvaise, la définition très pauvre. Il vaut beaucoup mieux continuer à lire à travers safari. donc un achat pour rien.
Ive used this app on my 3G for about a year, and after upgrading to iphone4 I found Its incompatible. This is symptomatic of this app---as far as I can tell they have never updated it, despite a number of annoying interface flaws. Some of the annoyances include that you cant select the type of search (e.g. Books, journals, etc.) until *after* youve done one search. So you have to do a "pretend" search before you do your real search. Another problem is that it doesnt remember where you are in a long journal article---it treats it as one massive page, and you cant bookmark your position. Also, theres a scrolling bug that sends me to the top of a long article before Im done, and then I have to search to figure out where I was. Also, quoted sections in fixed fonts do not size properly and are difficult to read. Also, theres little content that formats nicely like the screenshot---at least Ive never seen it. There are other issues, but my point is that the app has never been updated and these issues never get fixed. It feels like abandon-ware. And why do they charge money for it? You still have to pay a subscription fee.
I used the free trial when I first downloaded the app - months ago (when it first came out). I was impressed, but didnt think the subscription would be worth the cost until I returned to school this fall. Now that I have, I find that the app crashes all of the time - on an iPhone 3G iOS 3 and iPhone 4 iOS 4. I cant actually access any content. There have been no updates since release of this app in the fall of 2009. What a shame.
For iPhone 4s, the tops and bottoms of each page are not visible while in the reader. Attempting to scroll only changes the page. This makes the app impossible to use.
On my IPad mini cant access any of the generic Questia project management functions and the page handling is erratic, with none of the on screen help you get with the Web version. Very frustrating, this could be a great way to use Questia!