STARS Digital Repository

STARS, Showcase of Text, Archives, Research & Scholarship, is an institution-wide digital repository managed by the UCF Libraries. By sharing intellectual and creative outputs in a central site in the cloud, STARS allows faculty and students to showcase their work and make outputs available to expand and enhance research, teaching, and learning.

Enter STARS

What can you do with STARS?

Share articles, white papers, presentations, posters, and other works
Promote, review and publish student scholarship online
Give faculty and scholars control of their online presence with SelectedWorks
Showcase our institution’s visual resources with interactive image galleries
Publish professional-grade online journals
Display videos, audio, interactive maps, and real-time comments
Instantly publish and archive books, chapters, and monographs to the web
Promote and publish campus events online
Provide access to institutional and historical documents
Support faculty research data
More!

Ready to get STARted?

Visit the submission page to upload your materials to existing collections.

Do you have an idea for a new project or collection? Let us know!

For additional information, comments, questions, or suggestions, email the STARS manager at STARS@ucf.edu or contact your Subject Librarian.

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Knights Stronger Together Digital Time Capsule

All Libraries, Diversity & Inclusion, Events, STARS Digital Repository Posted: July 31st, 2020

UCF Libraries is building a digital time capsule, based on this year’s Diversity Week theme, Stronger Together: Unified! Connected! Family! In this unprecedented year marked by COVID-19 and the continued fight for racial equity, we ask you to tell your story, share your voice, and be heard. Chronicle your connection to this year’s theme by contributing […]

Faculty Support Image of open books and pen in front of a bookcase

Faculty Support: Are you seeing STARS?

All Libraries, Digital Initiatives, Digital Support, STARS Digital Repository Posted: July 20th, 2020

With almost 3,000,000 downloads in just five years, STARS wants to help you reach a worldwide audience by providing an online home for your digital projects! Faculty and students navigate a world where scholarship is increasingly digital. STARS, UCF’s Showcase of Text, Archives, Research & Scholarship, is the digital institutional repository of content by, for, or about UCF. Through STARS, […]

The STARS of Thesis & Dissertations

All Libraries, Digital Initiatives, STARS Digital Repository Posted: May 29th, 2020

Students at UCF work on all kinds of interesting creative projects and research. UCF Libraries has the privilege of being able to house physical and digital copies of decades of research done by students and faculty. STARS is UCF’s Showcase of Text, Archives, Research & Scholarship, and is home to scholarship and creative works done by students and faculty across disciplines. STARS provides an option for contributors to share their work while retaining their copyright. Most items in STARS are freely available […]

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