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Chemistry Faculty: Welcome to the Library

Spring 2025 Information for Chemistry Faculty

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Library Services, Resources, and News: Spring 2025

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

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.


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 Chemistry guide on your course canvas pages for your students.

Chemistry 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 Chemistry 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.


News

April 2025

New Library Search Interfaces.

Gleeson Library will launch new, more intuitive interfaces for Fusion and EBSCOhost databases on June 16. The update offers improved design, accessibility, and features.

Users must manually migrate any saved alerts and folders. See the Fusion and EBSCOhost Database Updates guide for more information, FAQs, and a link to preview the new interface.

In addition to Fusion, 77 EBSCOhost databases will implement the new interface.

More Information and FAQs


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 American Chemical Society, Oxford, Cambridge, Elsevier, Springer, and Association for Computing Machinery,

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


 

See the News Archive to view past news items for this and selected other disciplines.

 


Selected New Books in Chemistry

Book summaries composed with AI-assistance.

Creatures of Reason: John Herschel and the Invention of Science

John Herschel, Britain’s preeminent natural philosopher and son of astronomer William Herschel, defined modern science in the early 19th century. He excelled at Cambridge, revolutionized chemistry and optics, advanced mathematics, and mapped the entire sky. Herschel’s popular writings taught a generation how to do science, and his vision shaped scientific theory as “creatures of reason.” This book, using unpublished manuscripts and archives, explores Herschel’s impact across disciplines and his role in transforming science into a profession, shaping its organization and relationship to society, government, and culture.

Stand Out with Your Scientific Poster: A Step by Step Approach

This book provides you with a step-by-step guide to making a scientific poster that has real impact. Are you a researcher who struggles when it comes to creating scientific posters? Or do you simply want to get better at it? This book provides you with a step-by-step guide to making a poster that has real impact to ensure you stand out from the crowd at your next poster fair. A practical guide that gives you answers to questions like: what to put on a poster (and mainly: what not to)? How do you come up with a title that immediately grabs people's attention? What are the best images to use? How many words can you include on your poster? And much, much more... Everything you need to get started step-by-step and quickly achieve the best result.

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