Welcome to PURR, the Purdue University Research Repository, an online data
management and publishing tool for Purdue researchers. PURR supports
researchers throughout the whole data management lifecycle from planning to
publishing and beyond. When PURR was launched in 2011, we were one of the
first institutional repositories specifically for data. Since then, PURR has
worked with over 3,000 researchers on more than 1,000 projects, 2,500 data
management plans, and 350 grant awards. PURR helps researchers plan for data
management, collaborate with team members, publish completed datasets, archive data
securely, and track publication impact. In this video, we'll talk briefly about each
of these. Let's start with planning.
PURR's data management resources will help you meet funder requirements and
establish best practices for organizing your data. PURR offers a variety of helpful
resources including tutorials, tools, sample data management plans, and
boilerplate text for your grant proposal.
Explore our planning resources online, or contact us to schedule a consultation.
Our team is part of the libraries research data unit in room 174 of the
Stewart Center.
PURR helps you manage multiple research projects simultaneously. Each project
comes with at least 100 gigabytes of file storage and one terabyte of space
for grant funded projects. With our projects tool, share files privately and
securely with your research team, including collaborators from outside of
Purdue. PURR is completely web-based so you
and your team can work from anywhere in
the world while your file storage is safely and securely managed by our team
right here on campus.
When you are ready to share your data with the world, PURR makes publication easy.
Simply select the files you want to publish, and answer some simple questions
about your data. PURR offers a variety of publication features, so you can set
embargoes, publish versions, include supplements, customize tables, and create
series. Your data will be publicly available on the PURR website and indexed
by services like Google Scholar, opening your work up to new audiences.
Every PURR dataset has a DOI, a digital object identifier, registered with DataCite.
That's a globally unique ID that makes it easy for others to find and
cite your work. A DOI ensures that the scholarly community will always be able
to identify your dataset even if it changes location or format over time.
PURR archives your data securely to help you meet funder requirements and for
your own future use. Where is your data stored now, and how long will that
storage last? Behind the scenes, the PURR team carefully archives each published
dataset with a series of geographically distributed backups, ensuring your data
is safe and secure in PURR for at least 10 years. After 10 years, your data will
become part of the Purdue University Libraries collection.
PURR keeps your data safe and presents it to the world. PURR even helps track how
many people are viewing and downloading your data. PURR will send you a monthly
email with statistics that you can also check anytime on the PURR website.
Now that you have an idea of what PURR can do for your research, explore the website
or contact us to get started.