Research for your senior thesis can be quite an intense process--simultaneously exciting, daunting, frustrating, and exhilarating.  This is normal!

This guide includes curated collections of resources to assist you with your research.

Pro Tips

• Use a citation management tool such as RefWorks or Zotero
• If you're having difficulty locating data for your topic using dataset archives, consider finding articles on the same topic, and following their citations.
• If your topic is interdisciplinary, take a look at related subject guides to find broader research tools.
• No one database will provide you with the full scope of your topic.
• Your liaison librarian is here to assist!

• An empirical paper will discuss the data used, variable definitions, model specification, and problems of missing data or variables, and then present and analyze the statistical results.
• A theoretical contribution will present the argument, in all needed detail, logical structure used, and conclusions.
• A comparative study will isolate the differences of comparison, offer explanations for the differences, and explain what is important.
• A case study will offer the detailed information of the case, the source of the data, the structure of the case analysis, and conclusions.

Select undergraduate theses from the University of Puget Sound Department of Economics are available through the Library's institutional repository, Sound Ideas.

OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 7,225,126 theses and dissertations.