Archive Research Sources for a Thesis or Dissertation

Grey literature, agency PDFs, and long-form explainers live on the open web. By graduation, some of those URLs 404 or redirect to generic homepages. Your bibliography entry is not enough—you need a personal archive of what you actually read.

Simple system

• Folder per chapter or per theme (lit-review, methods, case-studies).
• Capture the page at the time you cite it.
• Add a short note in the clip: why it mattered, paragraph reference, skepticism level.

Why PageStash fits

Full-text search across clips means you can find that half-remembered quote without scrolling PDF downloads. Page Graphs can help you see which sources you clustered around the same topic.

Start with PageStash and keep web sources as first-class research objects—not fragile bookmarks.