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: Rebeca Gaston Jothyraj (RDM Assistant - 2024), Shrey Acharya (RDM Assistant - 2023), Sarthak Behal (RDM Assistant 2022-23), Danica Evering and Isaac Pratt (RDM Specialists), Debbie Lawlor (Developer).

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Wilfrid Laurier University
This DMP aims to collect survey data in order to examine the changes in the library landscape with regards to visible minority librarians. This will help the Visible Minority Librarians of Canada (ViMLoC) Network to empower librarians in this group regarding their current positions, and any future positions revolving around leadership, mentorship, and networking.
University of British Columbia
This DMP aims to collect interviews, videos, transcripts, and word documents. This data will be used for the purpose of interviewing nursing librarians from CARL to understand what they learned from COVID-19 and their thoughts about academic support post-pandemic.
Washington University in St. Louis; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data from obese mice to investigate how the nucleus accumbens, a region in the brain changes as individuals gain and lose weight.
Association for Clinical Data Management (ACDM)
This DMP was created for the Association of Clinical Data Managers, and aims to provide a template and outline for use.
Coordination and Support Action (CSA)
This DMP was created for the AfricaMalVal project, which aims to develop EU-Africa partnership for responsible and sustainable sourcing of minerals.
University of Massachusetts Amherst; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP investigates Afro-descendant movement in Latin America and subsequent self-determined collectives using participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and participatory workshops.
Alaska Regional Office (AKRO); NOA Fisheries
This DMP was created for the Blend System, which aims to provide a comprehensive accounting of groundfish catch. The project collects digital numeric data, imagery, photographs, video, audio, database, and tabular data.
Alaska Regional Office (AKRO); NOA Fisheries
This DMP was created for the Catch Accounting System, which aims to create total catch estimates for the groundfish fisheries. This DMP outlines the collection of digital numeric data, imagery, photographs, video, audio, database, and tabular data.
Bard Graduate Center; Open Anthropology Research Repository
This DMP aims to collect digitized materials, fonts, search algorithms, and software. The digitized materials will consist of historical and recent photographs, newspaper clippings, sound recordings, video clips, interviews, published essays, narratives, and songs.
University of Salford
This DMP aims to collect demographic, diagnoses, quantitative, and textual data in the aim to potentially provide international evidence about the vulnerabilities of individuals with PAE/FASD.
Brown University; Qualitative Data Management Plan (DMP) Competition
This is a Data Management Plan reviewing archival data from the National Public Broadcasting Archives, National Public Radio organizational records, and semi-structured interviews with non-white broadcasters and public radio employees in the USA and Australia to analyze diversity efforts in Public Radio Organizations.
Washington University in St. Louis; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP outlines the data management process of a human study evaluating the use of a novel drug, Ozurdex on treating Diabetic Macular Edema.
University of Sheffield; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
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.
University of Nottingham
This DMP aims to collect quantitative data from 20 participants, of their Jebsen hand function test (JHFT) results. This data will aid in the assessment of hand function while wearing three different flexor tendon repair hand splints.
University of North Carolina School of Medicine; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data obtained from wet-lab studies to investigate the immune response in the lungs in response to a bacterial infection of S. pneumoniae.
National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

This is an example of a data management plan from the NIH, intended to collect genomic data and subsequent phenotype data from cancerous mice models.

TU Delft; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data to evaluate how people behave when placed in "moral choice situations."
Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP aims to collect 3D digital data, algorithms for shape analysis, publications, and conferences. 

Curtin University
This DMP aims to collect survey data and motion analysis data to investigate shoulder biomechanics during MMA training.
University of New Mexico; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect samples from the field to better understand biogenic carbonates through investigating microbes and minerals.
UMC Utrecht
This DMP aims to collect quantitative human healthcare data from approximately 300 participants. This data will be used to provide an overview of surgical procedures for patients with clefts.
McMaster University
This DMP aims to collect info data, raw data, processed data, analyzed data, and report data. The goal of the project is to build a research and technology center to develop high-performance methods for biosensing and bioimaging.
UC San Diego
This is a data management plan from UC San Diego which details a plan for the CARE platform, which will create a software tool to access various datasets from selected sources.
UC San Diego; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will collect electrophysiological, histological, and head position data from rats to investigate the firing rate of neurons among other analyses to answer the research question.
CLARITY Consortium
This DMP is created for the CLARITY project which aims to provide an operational eco-system of cloud-based climate services.
National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
This is a sample data management plan from the NIH, intended for submission to the NIMH, presenting a proposal to collect and analyze demographic, clinical and MRI data from human subjects.
National Institute on Aging (NIA); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This Data Management Plan example outlines a project based on electronic health record (EHR) data for approximately 15,000 patients in a primary care clinic. Researchers will be reviewing demographic data, as well as data from medical history, laboratory results, medications, physical and cognitive exams. Further, they will conduct cognitive assessments of a subset of 40 individuals.
National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

This is an example of a data management plan from the NIH, intended to collect clinical, demographic, and dialysis data from research participants.

National Institute on Aging (NIA); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is a DMP for a hypothetical project to collect clinical and demographic data from amyloid-positive cognitively normal older adults with symptomatic insomnia. Data will be shared in the National Centralized Repository for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (NCRAD).
Loughborough University
This DMP aims to collect survey and interview data, in the efforts of creating a resource for empowering and supporting teens to be curious and inquire about positive eating, body weight, and body image.