1. Honors in the Major Thesis Submission Workshop:
Kerri Bottorff
Digital Projects Librarian
Fall 2016

2. What is STARS? UCF’s Institutional Repository
publicizes, disseminates, and provides ready access to works by, for, and about UCF
Provides access to your work as broadly as possible and for as long as possible

3. Why publish in STARS? Persistent access to your work
Items indexed in Google and Google Scholar
Authors receive monthly readership reports
Access to author dashboard
abstract, keyword being two of the most important fields to include when you upload
Show author dashboard
Readership map

4. Honors in the Major collection, all time, pulled April 10, 2017
As an author, you will receive access to your own author dashboard (show dashboard)
One thesis has been downloaded over 7,000 times

5. Create your STARS account
Create your account
stars.library.ucf.edu
Click on My Account
DON’T FORGET YOUR PASSWORD!!
You will use this account to upload your thesis
First, you need to create your account. Go to stars.library.ucf.edu
Once you complete format review, you will receive instructions on how to submit, as well as a checklist of what you need to have handy

6. Submitting to STARS
After you have completed format review, you will receive upload instructions
Make sure you have everything ready to submit your document
You can only submit ONCE
ABSOLUTELY NO CHANGES ONCE YOU SUBMIT
No, seriously, no changes
I’m not joking
Once you complete format review, you will receive instructions on how to submit, as well as a checklist of what you need to have handy

7. Before you complete the Submission Agreement, have the following ready:
The title page of your work
This will have most of the information needed
Keywords
Abstract
As text, not copied and pasted from your pdf
Embargo/Dissemination choice
Your thesis and any supplemental files
You will receive notification once your thesis has been added and is available.

8. Further thoughts… Check your spelling!
Typos cannot be fixed
Make sure you submit to Honors in the Major Theses
Don’t include your advisor as an author, YOU are the author
DO NOT include your PID or NID
Use proper capitalization, NOT ALL CAPS
UNLESS YOU ARE SHOUTING…
Did I mentioned you can only submit once?
And that no changes can be made once your work is submitted?

9. Digital Project Librarian
Questions? Contact me!
Kerri Bottorff
Digital Project Librarian
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