Questia.com is a fee-based access online library that hosts over 60,000 full-text books, and over one million articles. In addition to these references the online library also gives you access to a dictionary, an encyclopedia, a thesaurus, and a collection of digital tools that you can use while conducting your research.
Questia has three payment plans that you can choose from. The first option is to pay a monthly installment of $19.95. You don’t have to make a physical payment each month, as the $19.95 is automatically billed to your credit card or PayPal account. Your second option is to pay a quarterly fee of $44.95. This saves you $4.97 per month. Again quarterly payments are automatically processed when the renewal is needed. Your final payment option is to pay an annual fee of $99.95. This is the best payment option if you can handle the lump sum, as it saves you $11.62 per month on services. If you don’t know if this service is for you, Questia also offers a free trial offer where you can try out all of Questia’s services and research tools.
Once enrolled, either by paying the fee or enrolling in the free trial, you will be able to navigate freely throughout the library. There is a tutorial available to help you with all of the digital tools, and to help you use the library’s search engine. When you enter a search phrase such as "organizational change" results will be displayed in four different categories: books, journals, magazines, and newspapers. This segregation of material is especially helpful if your professor requires a specific number of references from books or peer reviewed journals. This will also help you to identify what resources are the most authoritative, with textbooks being the most authoritative, peer reviewed journals the second most authoritative, magazines the third most, and newspapers the fourth most authoritative.