This open access collection of exemplary graduate and undergraduate work includes nearly forty sub-collections: award-winning capstone projects, faculty-mentored research, and peer-reviewed scholarship. Find theses, dissertations, research projects, posters, presentations, articles, and more.
Search the Collection to find a topic or limit by discipline, keyword, date, or publication.
Student work
- comprises one third of PDXScholar.
- includes all PSU theses and dissertations.
- represents 60% of PDXScholar downloads.
- has been downloaded nearly 10 million times!
- Popular Content
Top 10 downloads - Undergraduate Research Commons
More than 700 publications in our repository network - Browse the Digital Commons Network
Over 500 colleges & universities in our shared repository
Please see the submission guidelines of each journal/event before submitting an online form.
- Journals
- Conferences & Symposia
- Faculty Nomination Form
- Program-specific Submission Forms
- Student Journals (Beyond PSU)
- Undergraduate Research Commons (Beyond PSU)
Organized by discipline, search for "Open to All" publications
- Top Downloads/Streams
- Readership Distribution
- PlumX Metrics
Item-level usage, citations, captures, mentions, and social media posts
Learn More: Portland State Research
Bringing the future into focus through groundbreaking research and scholarship
Events from 2019
Occupational exposure to noise and hearing change among US Service members, Kelly M. Reavis, Garnett P. McMillan, Kathleen F. Carlson, Jonathan M. Snowden, and James Henry
The Radical Impact of Madame Delphine Lalaurie on Slavery and the Image of African Americans, 1831-1840, Sophie A. Rehlaender
Social Anxiety, Heavy Episodic Drinking, and Drinking Motives in Undergraduates, Samantha B. Reis
Ecodistricts: Models for Sustainable Urban Development at the Neighborhood Scale, Jocelyn Reynolds
To Disclose or Not to Disclose? Self-Disclosure of Mental Health in the Workplace, Samantha Margaret Reynolds
The Combined Effects of Parent and Teacher Involvement on the Development of Adolescents' Academic Engagement, Nicolette Paige Rickert
The Evolution of Slavery-Built Higher Education and Racial Supremacy in American Universities, Olivia A. Ricketts
Feminist Divide: Do We Know Where the Problem Areas Are?, Jacqueline Rieth
Business Continuity Planning at Portland State University: an Adaptive Approach to Planning for Service Recovery After a Disruption, Heather Roberts
Attachment in Higher Education and the Workplace: A Literature Review, Emily A. Robey
Cycles of Displacement: the Experience of Immigrants and Refugees from East Africa in Northeast Portland, Julianna I. Robidoux
Facial Image Characterization and Reconstruction Using Singular Value Decomposition, Jessica R. Robinson
Take Control: A proposed mental health treatment program to be implemented in youth correctional facilities around Oregon based on the evidence-based TARGET program, Zoey S. Rochefort
Tracking Climate Change from a Transportation and Health Perspective, Kelly Rodgers
Reproduciendo Otros Mundos: Indigenous Women's Struggles Against Neo-Extractivism and the Bolivian State, Gisela Victoria Rodriguez Fernandez
Numerical Algorithms for Solving Nonsmooth Optimization Problems and Applications to Image Reconstructions, Karina Rodriguez
Self-Disclosure and Physiological Responses among Adults who Stutter, Sulema Rodriguez
Stratospheric Polar Vortex Variability in the Northern Hemisphere: the Effects of Climate Change on Polar Vortex Trends and Future Projections, John Earl Rogers
Papers Please: Immigration, Enforcement, and Remmitances, Jose A. Rojas-Fallas
Reference-Dependence Performance: Managing and Meeting Expectations, Jose A. Rojas-Fallas
Measurements of N₂O and SF₆ Mole Fraction and N₂O Isotopic Composition between 1978 and 1997 in Archived Air Samples from Cape Meares, Oregon, Terry Clinton Rolfe
Constructing Winning NBA Teams Using Mixed Integer Programming, Andrew Rondema, Matt Yamamoto, Mert Cihan Tonkal, Mahamadou Sissoko, and Manolo Lopez
Medicaid Patients' Use of Dental Benefits, Merit Roshdy
Graceful Infrastructure: Harvesting America's Wind Corridor, Samuel Rothacker