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Provide access to institutional and historical documents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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Central Florida Future Header from 1/4/2010

Central Florida Future Digitization Complete

Digital Initiatives, Special Collections & University Archives, STARS Digital Repository, Technology Solutions & Digital Initiatives Posted: November 19th, 2021

The UCF Libraries’ Special Collections & University Archives and Digital Initiatives departments are pleased to announce the completion of a project to digitize the University of Central Florida’s student newspaper. The publication ran from 1968 to 2016.   The newspaper’s first issue appeared on October 7, 1968, to coincide with the first day of classes at […]

STARS has an Institutional Repository All-Star!

Celebrate UCF Libraries, STARS Digital Repository Posted: November 4th, 2021

Congratulations to Lee Dotson for being named an Institutional Repository All-Star during the Digital Commons North American Conference 2021! Ms. Dotson is the interim department head for Technology Solutions & Digital Initiatives and has been the Repository Manager for STARS since it launched in 2015. UCF’s Lee Dotson was one of four 2021 IR All […]

Open Access Journal Articles Shine in STARS

Scholarly Communications, STARS Digital Repository Posted: October 26th, 2021

With over 5.3 million downloads since 2015, STARS helps authors reach a worldwide audience by providing an online home for open access content! STARS, UCF’s Showcase of Text, Archives, Research & Scholarship, is the digital institutional repository of content by, for, or about the University of Central Florida. Everyday UCF authors use STARS to manage, […]

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