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
Submissions from 1996
ETM 520 Student Project - Sammartino, Rob Sammartino
Thermal Preference of Spring and Fall Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) during Smoltification, Sally T. Sauter
Design of a Two-Chamber-NO₂-Fluorescence-Cell, Volker Schmid
Fluorinated Polymer Films: Synthesis and Characterization, Anja Ulrike Schnurer
Willa Cather's Spirituality, Mary Ellen Scofield
Unrelated Business Enterprise and Unfair Business Competition Issues Facing Nonprofit Organizations, Larry Glen Scruggs
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Fairy Tales and Children, Cornelia Marianne Seigneur
Circuit Implementation of a High-speed Continuous-time Current-mode Field Programmable Analog Array (FPAA), Osama K. Shana'a
Compiling Evaluable Functions in the Gödel Programming Language, David Shapiro
Oregon's Oil: A Geographic View of Petroleum Distribution and Associated Risks, Paul M. Slyman
Social Stratification within a Protohistoric Plankhouse of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Use-wear and Spatial Distribution Analysis of Chipped Lithic Artifacts, Cameron McPherson Smith
Dramatic Conflict and Historical Reality in Carl Zuckmayer's Hauptmann von Kopenick, Craig O. Smith
Relationship of Marital Types and Conflict Styles, Lynn Marie Stanek
The Multiple Pool Migrating Worker Paradigm : A Distributed System Framework and Model, Cynthia Ann Stanley
Jitter and Wander Reduction for a SONET DS3 Desynchronizer Using Predictive Fuzzy Control, Kevin Blythe Stanton
Ottilie: Expression of the Ideal of Romantic Childlikeness in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften, Melodie Joy Steele
Undergraduate Student Satisfaction with the Sociology Program at Portland State University, Katherine Sullivan
Captive Environmental Influences on Behavior in Zoo Drills and Mandrills (Mandrillus), a Threatened Genus of Primate, Erik Terdal
ETM 520 Student Project - Testa, Martina Testa
ETM 520 Student Project - Testa, Martina Testa
TQM Key Success Factors: A Case Study of Two Companies, Martina Testa, Dan Wahlstrom, Khalid Alkahtani, Kittipong Vivitvorakit, and Saleh Al-Alyan
AT&T "Beyond Long Distance", Martina Testa, Dan Wahlstrom, Khalid Alkahtani, Kittipong Vivitvorakit, and Saleh Alyan
TQM Key Success Factors: A Case Study of Two Companies, Martina Testa, Dan Wahlstrom, Khalid Alkahtani, Kittipong Vivitvorikit, and Saleh Alyan
AT&T "Beyond Long Distance", M. Testa, D. Wahlstrom, K. Alkahatani, K. Vivitvorikit, and S. Alyan
A Cross-cultural Study of the Speech Act of Refusing in English and German, Charla Margaret Teufel