Gale Acquires Premium Online Information Service Questia

Questia

Gale, the educational publisher part of Cengage Learning, has made another online acquisition: it has bought Questia, the online educational research and information premium subscription service. Financial terms were not disclosed. Questia subscription service gives access to 76,000 books from 300 plus publishers and millions of articles from journals, magazines and newspapers, it says, through its questia.com and questiaschool.com products. Since it was formed in 1998, Questia has raised a total of $155 million in financing, with the last reported $10 million debt financing round in 2004. Some more details about Questia’s recent business in this Minoneline story from earlier this month.

This comes a year after it acquired a somewhat similar service Highbeam Research, from which it got Highbeam.com, Encyclopedia.com and AccessMyLibrary services, and with Questia added, it plans to combine the resources on these services, it said. Release.

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