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Spring 2025 Information for Architecture Faculty

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Library Services, Resources, and News: Spring 2025

I'm Randy Souther, the library's liaison for Architecture.

This page highlights recent news, as well as some of the library's services and resources available to support faculty teaching and research. It will be updated ahead of each semester, and periodically in-between.

News

February 2025

New transformative agreement with Oxford University Press, and extended agreements with Cambridge University Press and Springer.

Transformative agreements allow you to publish your articles open access with no fees or reduced fees. Our current agreements are with Oxford, Cambridge, Elsevier, Springer, Association for Computing Machinery, and American Chemical Society. 

View our Transformative Agreements


January 2025

ProQuest Ebook Central subscription ends February 1, 2025

ProQuest Ebook Central is one of our major ebook providers, and its cancellation will affect more than 250,000 titles in our collection.

If you rely on any specific ebook title for assigned readings in your courses, or for your own teaching or research, please check the ebook status below, and notify me promptly ( randall.souther@usfca.edu ) if the ebook is from ProQuest Ebook Central. Gleeson Library may be able to provide alternate access to frequently used ebooks.

See the link below to check the status of any ebook in question.

Check the Status of an Ebook


August 2024

Cancellations and Withdrawals

The library has had to cut more than $50,000 from our materials budget this coming year, and larger cuts are likely next fiscal year. See our Cancellations and Withdrawals page for a partial list of cancelled databases and journals.

See Cancellations and Withdrawals

Important cancellations include:

  • Link+ — book borrowing and lending service (books can still be borrowed via our Interlibrary Loan service).
  • ProQuest Ebook Central — more than 250,000 academic ebook titles.
  • Passport GMID — international consumer and industry market research.
  • Credo InfoLit — information literacy tutorials and videos

New Information Desk in the Library

The library's Reference Desk has been closed, and reference services have been moved and combined with circulation services at the Information Desk at the entrance of the library. Reference librarians will be on-call — just ask at the Information Desk.


Selected New Books in Architecture

Book summaries composed with AI-assistance.

Site: Marmol Radziner in the Landscape

“Site: Marmol Radziner in the Landscape” showcases 19 houses by architects Marmol Radziner, known for blending interior and exterior spaces. The book features over 200 stunning photographs of homes in desert, urban, canyon, and woodland settings across the American Southwest and the Netherlands. Organized by habitat, it illustrates the architects’ philosophy of erasing boundaries between indoor and outdoor spaces. Novelist Mona Simpson provides a personal foreword, while an interview with Marmol and Radziner offers insights into their design process. The expansive format and lush imagery highlight the seamless integration of architecture with its natural surroundings.

2024 International Building Code Illustrated Handbook

The 2024 International Building Code Illustrated Handbook is an essential resource for construction professionals, featuring over 600 illustrations to aid in code compliance. This updated edition incorporates critical new information, including structural load updates based on ASCE/SEI 7-22. It covers key IBC changes, addressing steel, wood, concrete, and masonry standards, guards on retaining walls, sprinkler protection for apartments, egress for occupiable roofs, Type III construction, fire resistance of exterior walls, lithium battery facilities, and temporary public structures. The handbook simplifies complex code provisions, making it invaluable for architects, engineers, contractors, building managers, and municipal officials involved in construction projects.


Selected Services and Resources

Reminders of key resources ahead of each semester—see more in Faculty Resources:

See Faculty Resources

 


Course Reserves

The library can place both physical and online materials on reserve for your classes. We encourage you to make arrangements prior to the start of each semester or as soon as possible, and email gleesonreserves@usfca.edu with any questions.

Items previously on reserve must be renewed every semester that you wish to have them availalbe.

Course Reserves Guide


 

Research Guides

We curate research guides for a variety of disciplines, topics, and classes. Please consider including a link to the Architecture guide on your course canvas pages for your students.

Architecture research guide

Book Orders

If you would like us to purchase specific books for the library, please contact me via email with the information: randall.souther@usfca.edu. We're happy to partner with you to build a rich and useful collection.

Selected New Architecture Books

Streaming Videos for Classroom Use

If you’re planning on using streaming videos from the library, we encourage you to make arrangements prior to the start of each semester:

Faculty Video Request Form

Even if you’ve made arrangements for a specific title in the past, please confirm that the license will be active during the semester. Many of our streaming videos are licensed for only a year at a time, and we want to make sure you and your students have access when you need it. License expiration dates, when applicable, are indicated in the “Access Restrictions” note in the catalog record for the video.

You can search our streaming video collection in the library’s catalog. For additional information, please see our Video and Streaming Media for Faculty guide, or contact me for help.


Open Access Publishing

Learn about open-access opportunities for your work.

 

Transformative Agreements

See our current agreements with journal publishers to allow USF faculty to publish their articles open access at reduced or no cost to the author.

View the publisher list

Scholarship Repository

We encourage you to add your publications to the library's repository of USF scholarship for open access and archiving.

Visit the scholarship repository
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