Cool Stars 14 - Submitted Abstract # 352 This version created on 05 October 2006 The Stellar Archive and Retrieval System Babar Ali, IPAC John Stauffer, IPAC Solange Ramirez, IPAC Bruce Berriman, IPAC David Ciardi, IPAC Angela Zhang, IPAC Marion Schmitz, IPAC Nian Chiu, IPAC The Stellar Archive and Retrieval System (StARS) is an archive and search facility for data on mainly nearby stars, with emphasis towards planet finding research. The database contains a variety of published measurements of positions, kinematics, photometry, multiplicity, activity, and other fundamental stellar properties. The initial population of stars is taken as the entire Hipparcos catalog merged with the rest of the data sources. These data sources (primarily published catalogs and papers) are selected via literature searches on a core group of stars. These data are vetted by the StARS science team. StARS allows users to fully trace the data to the original publication and provides an option to view the 'as published' value of the datum. There are currently 140,230 stars in StARS. ----------------------------------