Data Management Plan Database

A Data Management Plan (DMP) describes how you will manage, store, secure, document, and share research data. DMPs can vary broadly across disciplines, methodologies, and data types. DMPs are a growing requirement for grants, and can also guide data practices for individuals and teams. DMP Assistant is a free webtool that guides you through drafting your DMP and the easiest way to start building a DMP. 

Our database gathers examples from across the world including DMPs from the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Qualitative DMP Competition, DataOne, Digital Curation Centre, Liber, the Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance, and UC San Diego Research Data Curation into one searchable, open-access platform. 

Download the amalgamated dataset: https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/SDITUG

Project Team: Shrey Acharya (RDM Assistant - 2023), Sarthak Behal (RDM Assistant 2022-23), Danica Evering and Isaac Pratt (RDM Specialists), Debbie Lawlor (Developer).

Data Management Plan Database

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University of Glasgow

This data management plan from the University of Glasgow aims to build two online atlases of Scots syntactic features with a "Google Maps" style interface with audio recordings and geospatial, sociological and biographical material.

University of Sheffield

This is an annotated DMP template for a Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)grant containing guidance text produced by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and the University of Sheffield Library.

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

This project aims to ascertain whether "four approaches" can "improve the education and degree completion of low-income students at public STEM-focused Hispanic serving institutions."

Digital Research Alliance of Canada; University of Alberta

This is an example data management plan from the Alliance which intends to study the historical and cultural influence of Belgian and French immigrants to the Canadian Prairies. The data collected for analysis include text-based, image and geographical data.

University Lumiere Lyon 2

This DMP aims to collect data to understand "educational actors cooperate or compete around the definition of knowledge that is worthy of circulation in an education dialogue."

Digital Research Alliance of Canada; University of Alberta

This fictional data management plan focuses on caring for mixed methods research through survey data, interviews, and focus groups. For the purposes of training, this DMP assumes data collected by the study will not be sensitive, and that participants have consented for their de-identified information to be deposited into a data repository in support of preservation and open research.

Digital Research Alliance of Canada; Simon Fraser University

This sample data management plan from the Alliance aims to create a comprehensive digital database of women's contributions to print culture from 1750 to 1830. It uses data collected from a variety of digital databases and print bibliographies and uses a metadata schema developed by the authors.

Digital Research Alliance of Canada; Université de Montréal

This is an example data management plan from the Alliance which describes a fictional research project which involves the collection of soundscapes from monasteries. The fictional researcher intends to collect audio data (WAV files) in order to facilitate analysis.

Leiden University

This is a DMP template for researchers at Leiden University, The Netherlands. It has a checkbox format instead of a paragraph format which could be useful for certain researchers.

Université du Québec à Montréal
This is a template DMP for researchers conducting historical research within the humanities utilizing analog research data.
University of Alberta
This is a template DMP for arts-based research intending for projects that will utilize artistic research methods.
University of Saskatchewan
This is a template DMP for research project utilizing technology and/or software for application in healthcare and medicine.
University of Alberta
This is a template DMP for mixed-methods research where data is obtained from surveys and qualitative interviews/focus groups.
University of Calgary
This is a template DMP for use in systematic review projects in any field.
Rice University

This is a set of sample DMPs produced by the Rice Research Data Management Team containing a preamble explaining recommended content and two Sample DMPs for Biosciences and Social and Behavioral Sciences.

University of Maryland, College Park

This DMP highlights how a Digital Curation Innovation Center will manage its data.

University of Alabama

This DMP aims to collect data from public records and judicial proceedings to investigate and better understand the litigation process.

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This DMP will collect qualitative and quantitative information on cognitive, affective, and developmental data of human subjects to ascertain the impact financial constraints have on the academic performance of University students.

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This DMP example depicts a poor DMP and has associated comments explaining what makes it "bad" and how it can be improved.

SYNYO GmbH
This DMP aims to collect data on text and data mining (TDM) laws in Europe in order to reduce barriers for researchers to use these datasets.
University of Nebraska - Lincoln

This outlines best practices to include when writing DMPs. It shares examples of good language included in DMPs to highlight the importance of specificity in describing privacy and licensing, procedures, roles and responsibilities, data sharing, metadata, citation, and long-term archiving. It also gives examples of bad language in DMPs to demonstrate poor data management strategies.

California State Polytechnic University

This project will collect data from 60 interviews with Engineering Faculty to determine what assumptions they hold about students.

University of Bristol

This data management plan from the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of Bristol aims to create a series of mini-documentaries, a 30m documentary and a photo exhibition on Buddhist Cosmology.

Temple University

This DMP aims to collect audio recordings, surveys, and observations to revitalize and endangered language.

University of Glasgow

This data management plan from the University of Glasgow for the "Mapping Metaphor" project aims to create a website and a mobile application with worksheets, lesson plans, interactive activities and data tailored for use by secondary school pupils and others.

University of Nebraska--Lincoln

This DMP will collect data to "reduce the risk of hazard material transportation, reduce crashes, improve emergency response times for unexpected events, and increase the overall safety of system workers and users."

University of Alberta
This is a DMP example for a fictional research study that will use a mixed-methods approach to collect participant data from interviews, surveys, and focus groups.
University of Ottawa
This DMP aims to collect and provide empirical evidence for the impact of data usage, data citation, and use of datasets on academic communication.
Delft University of Technology
This DMP aims to collect environmental, geographic, and population level data from 6 metropolitan areas to reduce space waste and optimize living area.
University of Kentucky

This DMP outlines the data that will be collected from a novel program, REU that aims to increase undergraduate student engagement in research, particularly in the field of Engineered Bioactive Interfaces and Devices.