Two Minute Tips for Research Success: PURR & Data Management
Channel: PurdueLibraries
Date: 2019-04-03

Purdue Biochemistry Professor Vikki Weake and researchers at her lab at Purdue University study the effects of aging on the eye--specifically mechanisms that make neurons and other cells in the eye or the brain susceptible to disease as one ages. In this #TwoMinuteTip, she shares how the Purdue University Research Repository, or PURR, provides her and her team members with an invaluable tool for their research data.

"PURR is really useful if you need a data-management plan, which you are required to have for many granting agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or the National Science Foundation (NSF). If you use PURR, you can just say you're going to use PURR and then put all your data in PURR," she explains. "The types of data we put in PURR include items like microscopy images or even detailed protocols, e.g., Word files or PDFs explaining how we did an experiment."

Learn more about how Dr. Weake and her team use PURR in this short video. For more information about how PURR can help you with your research data, visit https://purr.purdue.edu/