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, share, and increase impact for their full range of scholarship while retaining the rights to their works.
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 photographs you have taken, illustrations you have created, or text you have penned. You can influence how the present will be remembered. Share your message.
Submission information:
Open to UCF students, faculty, staff, and UCF Alumni.
One submission per person.
Submissions will be digitized and housed in STARS. STARS is UCF’s digital repository to publicize, disseminate, and preserve works by, for, and about UCF.
Submissions must be sized 8 ½” X 11” in a landscape orientation.
Submissions formats are pdf, jpg, png, or docx.
All submissions must be original work(s).
Participants must submit a consent form granting permission for their content to be digitized and placed into STARS as part of the Qualtrics form.
Submissions will be accepted August 1, 2020 – October 25, 2020.
Sexually explicit content will not be accepted, and UCF Libraries reserves the right to omit any submission.
All works will be placed into the digital time capsule as received; no editing services will be provided.
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, UCF offers authors a way to manage, share, and increase impact for their full range of scholarship, from open educational resources and podcasts to image galleries and journals.
Did you know you can shine a light on your scholarship by adding your works to the Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works collection? This collection was created specifically to showcase faculty contributions. View the works and citations currently available and then login or create an account to start adding your materials. Your Author Dashboard will provide access to real-time download activity, alternative metrics, and usage reports on demand. Newly integrated PlumX metrics show you citations, media mentions, tweets, and more.
Need a new collection for your project? Let us know!
Questions about submitting works or your rights as an author? Email us at STARS@ucf.edu
Ready to see how STARS can help you shine a light on your works? Visit stars.library.ucf.edu
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 to users around the world. Materials can be browsed College, Department, or individual collection: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/communities.html.
We’ve also curated a list of some of the many interesting works by students in the History Department, Creative Writing program, College of Sciences, and College of Nursing below:
As we continue to share UCF Library’s online resources, we hope that you find new ways to engage with your fellow Knights across disciplines and genres.
What terrors lurk in the heart of humanity? What scary thoughts skulk in the corners of your mind? What dark and spooky words will cross your page?
Can you creep out UCF Libraries staff with a scary story set in one of the UCF Library buildings?
Submit your scary story for the annual Knight Terror Library writing contest by 11:59 pm on October 27, 2019 to see if you can cause the best fright.
Contest for UCF students only.
One entry per student.
500 words or less.
Story must be set in one of the UCF Library buildings (John C. Hitt Library, Curriculum Materials Center, Rosen Library, Downtown Library, or one of the Connect campus libraries).
Stories with explicit sexual content will not be considered for this contest.
Winners will be
announced on October 31, and be immortalized in STARS KnightVerse. First place
wins a Libraries coffee mug and construction ducky. Second place wins a UCF
Libraries water bottle and Pegasus sticker.
Judges
reserve the right to not select a winner due to limited submissions, or lack of
exceptional submissions.
