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2024 Student Research Symposium

Student Research Symposium Happens May 8, 2024. The Student Research Symposium, part of PSU Research Week, is an opportunity for current PSU graduate and undergraduate students across all disciplines to showcase their research. Students gain experience and confidence presenting and defending ideas to an audience, and get valuable feedback to further their investigations. This year’s … Continue reading the article: 2024 Student Research Symposium

PDXOpen: Textbooks and Open Educational Resources

PDXOpen provides access to over thirty downloadable works. Part of PDXScholar, the institutional repository for Portland State University, PDXOpen is a collection of open access textbooks and open educational resources designed in response to the cost burden faced by students. PSU Library developed this grant-based open access textbook publishing program in support of statewide goals … Continue reading the article: PDXOpen: Textbooks and Open Educational Resources

What Researchers Tell Us!

PDXScholar: The Campus Repository PDXScholar includes over 33,000 PSU-produced articles, presentations, videos, post-prints, and other works that have been downloaded more than 12 million times. PDXScholar makes the research and creative works of Portland State University faculty, staff, and students easily discoverable and available to anyone, anywhere in the world. Learn More About PDXScholar View … Continue reading the article: What Researchers Tell Us!

Student-produced Research in the Racial and Gender Equity Collection

Student Research PDXScholar, the campus repository for Portland State University, hosts numerous student papers and projects. Many student works are cross-indexed in the University Library’s Racial and Gender Equity Collection, one of the PDXScholar Featured Collections. Theses and Dissertations can be found listed in the department, school, or college in which the degree was awarded, … Continue reading the article: Student-produced Research in the Racial and Gender Equity Collection

Featured Collections in PDXScholar

PDXScholar Featured Collections PDXScholar, the campus repository for PSU, includes over 33,000 PSU-produced articles, presentations, videos, post-prints, and other works that have been downloaded over 13 million times.  PDXScholar makes the research, scholarship, and creative works of Portland State University faculty, staff, and students easily discoverable and available to anyone, anywhere in the world.  Featured … Continue reading the article: Featured Collections in PDXScholar

Preserving a part of Black history with Oregon Black Pioneers

In 2018, Oregon Black Pioneers, a unique historical society dedicated to preserving and presenting Black history in Oregon, received a collection of historic photographs from the owners of a house in Portland’s Albina neighborhood. Two fragile photo albums, which the homeowners had discovered stored under a stairwell, contained pictures dating primarily from the 1940s-1960s of … Continue reading the article: Preserving a part of Black history with Oregon Black Pioneers

Elsevier Negotiations Stalled: Plan Moving Ahead

In March 2022, Interim Library Dean Michael Bowman distributed an announcement regarding negotiations with the scholarly publisher Elsevier, for journal access beginning in January 2023. The Elsevier journal package is by far the biggest expenditure made by the University Library for content. And to quote our colleagues from the University of Washington Libraries: “The Elsevier … Continue reading the article: Elsevier Negotiations Stalled: Plan Moving Ahead

New Exhibit for Fall 2022

The Library is excited to announce our newest exhibit for Fall 2022! Entitled “An Urgent Appeal: Coalition Activism in Response to Oregon’s Ballot Measure 9” and curated by PSU Library Special Collections & University Archives staff in partnership with the Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest, “An Urgent Appeal” presents primary materials related … Continue reading the article: New Exhibit for Fall 2022

Library Study Spaces

Looking for a place to join a Zoom class, do your homework, or simply relax in between classes? Over the summer, several spaces in the Library have been updated to better accommodate folks needing to take online classes in between in-person classes. Privacy screens, access to power, and noise masking have been added to reduce … Continue reading the article: Library Study Spaces