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).

Data Management Plan Database

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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.
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This DMP aims to collect audio data from stationary recorders and audio logger data. This data will be used in the efforts of studying the disturbance on barren-ground caribou with a two-pronged acoustic monitoring approach.
University of Guelph
This DMP aims to collect numeric data only. The aim of the project is to investigate 4 fertilizer placements used by strip-tillers.
Digital Research Alliance of Canada; Western University, Queen's University
This is an example data management plan from the Alliance which aims to create a database of digital products from the Canadian Census of Population. The database includes text base data collected from Statistics Canada.
Digital Research Alliance of Canada; Cape Breton University

This example data management plan from the Alliance intended to analyze the availability and usage of affordable rental housing. The project requires the collection of various forms of numeric, audio-visual and text-based data collected from a variety of sources such as surveys, focus groups etc.

Digital Research Alliance of Canada; University of Saskatchewan
This DMP describes a plan for a study to collect data from academic profile websites--Google Scholar, Citations, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and ORCID--to understand the presence of librarian researchers on those platforms. Data collected for analysis includes textual and numerical data across different platforms and translated in to SPSS for analysis.
Canadian Research Data Centre Network; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
This is a template DMP for researchers conducting statistics based research for Statistics Canada.
University of Ottawa; CAU Kiel University; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
This is a template DMP for mixed social sciences research projects that adopt an open scholarship workflow and produce both qualitative and quantitative datasets.
Canadian Research Data Centre Network; Digital Research Alliance of Canada

This is a template DMP for researchers conducting statistics based research for Statistics Canada for use in external analyses and applications.

University of Guelph
This DMP aims to collect numeric field data to be used to diversify and enhance The University of Guelph’s soybean breeding.
University of Guelph
This DMP aims to collect numeric data to determine if intervention with a NSAID upon an alert on an automatic feeder can improve calf behavior, glucose status, and performance.
University of Guelph
This DMP aims to collect both qualitative and quantitative data. This data is mainly numerical and includes soil structural properties, crop measurements, and general site information. Data collected will be used in the study of no-till corn and soybean production in high-residue environments via improved planter components. 
University of Guelph
This DMP aims to collect numeric data to  improve the productivity and profitability of Ontario garlic sector.
University of Waterloo
This DMP aims to collect survey data to better understand the social divisions and social inequalities in Canada.
University of Guelph
This DMP aims to collect DNA sequences acquired from MiSeq analysis of soil metagenomic DNA. This data will be used to investigate approaches for assessing biological indicators of soil health.
ONFARM Consortium
This DMP was curated for the ONFARM project in aid of dealing with their soil health data, and their water quality/quantity data.
University of Guelph
This DMP aims to collect numeric data on tomato characteristics to study how to increase diversity in processing tomato breeding lines in Ontario.
Cégep de Jonquière; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
This DMP aims to collect qualitative and quantitative data from semi-structured interviews and surveys to evaluate how millennials adapt to adulthood.
Dalhousie University
This DMP aims to collect survey data consisting of demographic data, alcohol usage data, and data related to impulsivity and anxiety sensitivity.
University of Guelph
This DMP aims to collect numeric data, and drone images/video footage. This data will be used to advance integrated management tools for minimizing disease loss from tar spots on corn.
University of Saskatchewan
This DMP aims to collect survey and interview data in order to prepare mid-career librarians from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups for leadership positions.
University of Guelph
This DMP aims to collect numeric, text, images, and lab data to aid in the efforts of providing practical and effective prudent antimicrobial use guidelines for Ontario cow-calf operations.
University of Guelph
This DMP aims to collect numeric data from lab info, treatment info, surveys, and questionnaires. This data will be used to understand the transmission of Salmonella Dublin within dairy and veal farms in order to control it better.
University of Guelph
This DMP aims to collect numeric data only, consisting of things like weed control, crop injury, crop dry weight, and crop yield. The goal of the project is to examine various herbicide tolerances of several vegetable crops.