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Expanding Open Data at Purdue: PURR Celebrates Open Access Dataset Milestones

October 23rd, 2014

The Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) achieved significant milestones last month, celebrating over 100 open access dataset publications and 100 grants awards to Purdue researchers who have used PURR. In total, PURR has been included in the data management plans of over 1,000 grant proposals from principal investigators at Purdue.

PURR is a virtual collaboration space and institutional data repository that was developed for the campus research community by the Purdue University Libraries, the Office of Executive Vice-President for Research, and Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP).

It provides a solution for researchers who are writing and implementing data management plans, which are required by many federal funding agencies like the National Science Foundation. PURR also enables researchers to publish datasets with Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and archive datasets in a secure, reliable digital repository. PURR also works in collaboration with the other institutional repositories at Purdue and can assist researchers to make both their research data and published scholarship openly available to serve the full spectrum of the Purdue community’s scholarly communication needs.

Any Purdue faculty member, graduate student, or staff can create a project in PURR, invite their collaborators to join it from other institutions, and share storage and tools to facilitate collaboration and data management.