Oh Man-O-Man

Yesterday, we found a fantastic new site!  It is a wonderful, wonderful on-line library called, Questia.

http://www.questia.com/

We know this is also an extra cost, but we joined for one year because it was the same cost as 5 months of a monthly rate. We're not a literal student, but we would like to do research, particularly in the areas of developmental disability and the psychology as it relates to humanism and multiplicity. We’ve been looking for a good resource because we've missed the services of a university library. There are on-line literature sites, but we don’t have time just yet to be developing our interests in classical fiction. Web searching is very useful for gaining information, but this is nothing like doing scholarly research!

It appears ...

"...that the Questia library includes books and articles in all areas of the humanities and social sciences. Subjects covered include literature, history, psychology, education, sociology, philosophy, political science, art, music, economics, and many more."

When we typed in "mental retardation," we found 3,204 listings. It includes 1,332 books, 1,644 journals, 143 magazines, 62 newspapers, an 22 encyclopedia listings. Man-o-man!  That'll keep us busy ... and, it includes 2,990 books with Honore Balzac, 12,672 on Plato, and 672 books on "The Great Books" including a 404 page book by Adler on, "How to Read a Book," and Will Durant’s, "Philosophy and the Social Problem!"

They claim ... Scholarly books and journal articles selected by librarians, complete books cover to cover - read or search any page or all of the book, credible sources from hundreds of respected publishers, tools to create your references and bibliography, never having overdue fees and pages are printed for free, the library is open 24/7, and you can highlight, scribble on the books, and leave countless notes.

It’s like waking up and finding yourself in heaven! I would gladly pay this $100 a year to have all these works available to us. Just spinning here! We’re thinking that we might open a new journal just to talk about what we could be reading and writing. Shoot need to slow down here and think! Whadda we goin to do first!  Research writing in psychology has been a dream of lifelong passion!  There is a God looking out for us!!!