USD Research Facilities

The University of San Diego offers good research facilities and a strong collection of California and local history.   

Helen K. and James S. Copley Library.   Copley Library is a member of the San Diego Library Circuit Consortium (CIRCUIT) which maintains a database linking university libraries in the region.    Through this consortium USD students and faculty can easily access, via interlibrary loan, more than 4,000,000 books held by libraries at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), San Diego State University (SDSU), and San Marcos State University (SMSU).  

Pardee Legal Research Center .   The LRC houses a collection of over 500,000 volumes and volume equivalents.   It is a state and federal documents depository with a collection of United Nations documents.

Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice.    Founded in 2001, the Institute for Peace and Justice offers programs that advance scholarship and practice in conflict resolution and human rights.   It is involved in education, research and peacemaking activities.

The TransBorder Institute.   Founded in 1994, the TransBorder Institute expresses the University's involvement in the emerging bi-national communities in Mexico, the United States, and elsewhere.   It provides students and faculty of the University, as well as the people of the United States-Mexico border community, with information, contacts and opportunities for study, research, internships, academic exchange, partnerships and service-learning.

San Diego Research Facilities

Off campus, students may take advantage of the research archives of the San Diego Historical Society, the Coronado Historical Society, the San Diego Maritime Museum and other local museums.   The University of California, San Diego, and San Diego State University both have excellent collections of local historical documents, including rare books, manuscripts and photographs.   The California room of the San Diego Public Library also holds historic collections.