1. Digital Collections Project Coordinator
STARS
Kerri Bottorff
Digital Collections Project Coordinator
February 26, 2016

3. What is STARS ? UCF's Showcase of Text, Archives, Research & Scholarship
The purpose of STARS is to disseminate, publicize, and share works by, for, and about UCF.
The intention is to provide access to this work as broadly as possible, and for as long as possible.

4. Why STARS? Persistent access to your work
Items indexed in Google and Google Scholar
Authors receive monthly readership reports
Access to author dashboard
Complements existing profiles
ResearchGate
Academia.edu
Google Scholar

5. Digital Commons http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/
State of the art digital repository and publishing platform
Showcase the breadth of scholarship produced at an institution
Optimized for discovery the open web
Metrics to demonstrate impact around the world

6. Features of STARS Departments, Centers, and Institutes
Dick Pope Sr. Institute for Tourism Studies
Student Scholarship and Creative Works
UCF Theses and Dissertations
Including Honors in the Major
Conferences
Florida Statewide Symposium-Engagement in Undergraduate Research
Journals
Journal of Health Occupations Education

7. Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Organizes, shares, & documents the full spectrum of your work:
Articles
Data sets
Teaching materials
Working papers
Conference papers & posters

8. Metrics and Impact Increased exposure of your work
On-demand readership statistics
Interactive download maps
Optimized for discovery on the open web
Included in Google Scholar
Usage metrics in real-time, on demand, or monthly
Visualizations of worldwide impact

9. Tim’s author dashboard

10. Also from Tim’s dashboard

13. Where do we go from here?
Continue to build Rosen Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Will be rolling out Selected Works soon
Interested in being a faculty beta-tester?
Help you build your STARS presence
Workshops, small group meetings, consultations

14. Digital Collections Project Coordinator
Questions? Contact me!
Kerri Bottorff
Digital Collections Project Coordinator
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