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ECON 411: Senior Research Seminar

Senior Research Seminar

Thesis research

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.

Suggestions from your liaison librarian

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!

Thesis Writing Guide

Economics Theses

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

Open Access Theses and Dissertations

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.