STARS

Researchers can store their research datasets in the University of Central Florida’s institutional repository, STARS, an open-access digital repository for the research and scholarly output of the University of Central Florida. Publicly accessible research data stored in STARS is searchable and downloadable. This institutional repository operates on the bepress Digital Commons platform, a comprehensive hosted solution for storing, managing, and sharing data. The service offers unlimited storage, customizable metadata, authorization and access control tools, long-term stable URLs, on-demand metrics, and search engine indexing.

The data and metadata of datasets in STARS are managed by the PI in consultation with repository staff and librarians. Data appropriate for public release will be openly published and archived through STARS. Those data requiring access restriction periods prior to open access publication through the repository will be appropriately embargoed and/or restricted based on user id, IP range, or domain.

Please visit the Researcher FAQ on STARS for more information or email STARS@ucf.edu to learn more.

Backup and Preservation

Content in Digital Commons is backed up through Amazon Web Services (AWS). For more information, visit Safeguarding Your Content with Digital Commons. Materials digitized in-house are stored and preserved in Microsoft Azure. At the request of a researcher and/or campus unit, UCF Libraries can archive born-digital objects in Azure as well. Researchers interested in leveraging Azure archiving for their born-digital materials are encouraged to contact the Digital Initiatives team at UCF Libraries.