It Doesn\u27t Take a Rocket Scientist: Navigating the Universe of Theses and Dissertations at the University of Central Florida

Theses and Dissertations at the University of Central Florida are a giant mess of a universe, consisting of galaxies of both print and electronic, undergraduate honors theses, and graduate theses and dissertations. We have a large galaxy of legacy, print-only theses and dissertations, the galaxy of retrospectively scanned theses and dissertations is growing slowly but steadily, and our born-digital theses and dissertation galaxy, started in 2004 (graduate) and 2011 (undergraduate honors), is maintained in two, soon to be three, different programs. This combination of galaxies has made it difficult for students, faculty, and librarians to search and use our universe of over 10,000 undergraduate honors theses and graduate theses and dissertations. This poster will demonstrate how we are working to streamline these galaxies into one, public-facing universe for all theses and dissertations, making them more visible to the wider community

How to Upload a Library Document to STARS

For library faculty and staff use. Do you have a document created for library use that you would like to share with others or link to from the library’s website? These instructions provide step-by-step directions for uploading library documents to STARS.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/stars-documentation/1000/thumbnail.jp

How to Create a STARS Account

Instructions detailing how to create an account for STARShttps://stars.library.ucf.edu/stars-documentation/1004/thumbnail.jp

How to Create an Account in STARS

This one-page handout guides authors through the process of creating an account in STARS

How to Upload a Library Newsletter to STARS

For library faculty and staff use. Do you have a newsletter created for library use that you would like to share with others or link to from the library’s website? These instructions provide step-by-step directions for uploading library newsletters to STARS.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/stars-documentation/1001/thumbnail.jp

Top 10 Ways to Put STARS to Work for You and Top 10 Ways to Put SelectedWorks to Work for You

Two sided document lists 10 ways the UCF community can use STARS and SelectedWorks.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/stars-documentation/1009/thumbnail.jp

Top 10 Ways to Put STARS to Work for You

Document is a list of 10 easy ways the UCF community can use STARS.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/stars-documentation/1007/thumbnail.jp

Forging Relationships & Building Digital Collections: Outreach Strategies to Promote and Populate the Institutional Repository

“If you build it, they will come,” asserts the omniscient narrator in the movie Field of Dreams. This magical sentiment rings true in a baseball setting, where zealous fandoms believe ardently in their teams and heroes. In the field of institutional repositories, however… well, it takes a little more time and effort! Specifically, you have to build it, promote it, populate it, and consistently demonstrate the value of it to students and faculty! This poster describes how a subject librarian partnered with institutional repository managers to build and grow the digital scholarly presence of a college within the university’s institutional repository. Over the course of seven years, the college’s digital presence went from zero to a rich repository of conferences, journals, file collections, student theses & dissertations, and faculty scholarship. During that time the college’s collections on the institutional repository have generated more than 143,000 downloads in 205 countries, and the college’s placement in the Shanghai “Global Rankings of Academic Subjects” has steadily increased from 20th to 2nd in the world. Data and charts will be presented documenting the collections’ growth and usage. The college’s digital collections also directly promote equity and inclusion efforts of the university. Diversity-themed events highlighted through the institutional repository include a Women’s Hospitality Leadership Forum and a USA-China Tourism Research Summit. Research institute reports highlight partnerships with researchers in Aruba, Curacao, Japan, and other countries. Most significantly, adding the college’s research output to a freely accessible institutional repository (discoverable via Google and other standard search engines) has extended scholarship to researchers around the world, including those who do not have access to well-funded university libraries or expensive publisher journal packages. Data and charts on readership distribution from various parts of the world will be presented. The poster will also highlight the key strategies employed in building this massive digital presence, including: Leveraging relationships with subject faculty, administrators, and marketing officers Collaborating to archive conferences, journals, and photo collections Populating the faculty collection through monthly inclusion of newly published journal articles Sending usage reports to faculty, reinforcing the usage and value of the collections The poster will also touch on limitations and lessons learned along the way, while keeping the focus on the positive possibilities. Ultimately, the message is that if you build it… and if you consistently promote it and foster good collaboration with all key stakeholders… then, yes, they will come

STARS, Faculty Profiles, and Author Rights

Presentation to the Rosen College\u27s Research Colloquium about STARS, faculty profiles, and author rights. Included Selected Works, copyright, and authors\u27 agreements

Textbook Affordability + WordPress + DC API = Unique eTextbook Portal Collaboration

As part of a textbook affordability initiative, the University of Central Florida Libraries sought ways to inform students that hundreds of required textbooks are available for free as library eTextbooks. When other methods did not include necessary information such as a link to the eTextbook or other details, a secondary method was investigated: creating an eTextbook Portal. An eTextbook Portal serves as a searchable webpage to help students locate eTextbooks that match their courses. A collaboration between the institutional repository, textbook affordability, and web services produced this creative solution to organize and share information for each eTextbook using Digital Commons to host the content. Utilizing a book gallery with customized metadata fields and the Batch Upload File Manager for adding cover images, each eTextbook has its own record and thumbnail image stored in the institutional repository. The goal of providing students with a quick, intuitive approach to locating the information and accessing the eTextbooks was made possible through the magic of the Digital Commons API, CSS styling, and a webpage designed to pull the information stored in the institutional repository to create the eTextbook Portal