PDXScholar (Campus Repository)

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

Free Resource: Urban Literacy

Portland State University Library announces the publication of a new open access textbook!  Congratulations to Leanne Serbulo on the publication of Urban Literacy: Learning to Read the City Around You, now available in PDXScholar, the campus repository.  This free textbook introduces students to the basic concepts of urban studies.  An interdisciplinary text developed for lower-division … Continue reading the article: Free Resource: Urban Literacy

PSU Anthropology Presents Archaeology First Thursdays

Archaeology First Thursdays Archaeology First Thursdays are an opportunity to take a deep dive into archaeology practice. Each month our distinguished guests present research. You have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss their research directly with them.  RECORDINGS: PDXScholar Archive The final presentation in the series happened May 5, 2022.  Past Events: Indigenous … Continue reading the article: PSU Anthropology Presents Archaeology First Thursdays