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 over 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
- 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
Theses from 2005
Religious Conversion in the Greco-Roman Period: A Comparison of Jewish, Pagan and Christian Narratives, Jessica A. Marsden
Humane Education: the Effects of Animals in the Classroom on Children's Empathy in Japanese Elementary Schools, Mika Maruyama
Selecting a PC Vendor for the IT Group at OHSU, Kuli Mavuwa
Ambivalent Landscapes: An Historical Geography of Recreation and Tourism on Mount Hood, Oregon, Ryan Franklin Mitchell
Software Product Lines: Managing a Reuse-Oriented Organization, Jesus Morales, Andrea Fox, and Kent Robinson
VoIP Telephony Technology A Focused Look at the Innovation and Diffusion of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), David Morrisey
Inoculating Against The Productivity Paradox, Jason C. Morris
Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Production, Abdi Mouse, Ali Katkhada, Ajay Narayan, and Sam Gould
Intelligent Transportation Systems – A Technology Assessment Project, Abdisalan Mouse, Doug Baumgartner, Gorken Mimioglu, Jyoti Prakash Das, and Vinay Chawla
Progress and economy: the clash of values over Oregon's Trojan Nuclear Plant, Gregory Nipper
HealthAssist: Powerpoint, Kevin Oursler, Marie Ottum, and Danielle Hall
Teacher Learning: Documentation, Collaboration, and Reflection, William A. Parnell
Innovations in Web Services, Rajeshwari Patil
Self-help Support Groups: Choices in Participation Among Women Facing Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Maria A. Pfeifer
Ecolopolis: Making the Case for a Cascadian Supercity, Portland State University
EKAPADD, Avnish Rastogi
Overview of Outsourcing, Avnish Rastogi, Jin Su Lee, Hersi Ahmed, and Mustafa Abbas
Re-imaging a neighborhood : the creation of the Alberta Arts District, Portland, Oregon, Meredith R. Rizzari
Methods for Correcting Topographically Induced Radiometric Distortion on Landsat Thematic Mapper Images for Land Cover Classification, David Michael Rosen
Internet – How do we build trust?, Agnimitra Roy
Beyond the Economic Catalyst Debate: Can Consumption Benefits Justify A Municipal Stadium Investment?, Charles Andrew Santo
Technology Issues in Implementation of E-Governance, Amrita Sehgal, Eric Lin, Karthik Seetharaman, Kritchai Paungchomphu, and Sunitha Narayanan
Strategic Issues in Biotechnology: A Managerial Analysis of Emerging GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) Technology, Neslihan Sener, Darin Colby, Crystal Gross, and John Frieh
Team Project: Literature Study of Outsourcing & Quality Issues? Gaps?, Richard Sperry, Karl Lander, and Ann-Marie Lamb