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

Last modified Jun 05, 2025

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Cégep de Sherbrooke; Digital Research Alliance of Canada

This DMP aims to collect digital, tabular, and graphic data on plastic production parameters, environmental conditions, and inspectional measures among other factors to optimize the industrial extrusion process.

University of Waterloo; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
This DMP aims to collect photographs, Raman data, and lab data to develop new and efficient techniques for synthesizing two-dimensional perovskites at lower temperatures.
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 Ottawa Heart Institute; Metaresearch and Open Science

Developed by researchers for the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, this guidance and worked example extracts examples from Beck, Leblanc, and Morissette's systematic review protocol on depression screening of children and adolescents. It outlines a data management plan for a systematic review study.

University of Ottawa Heart Institute; Metaresearch and Open Science

Developed by researchers for the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, this guidance and worked example outlines a data management plan for a pre-clinical laboratory animal study. This DMP outlines a project to explore stroke treatments using biocellulose duroplasty with rat subjects.

University of Ottawa Heart Institute; Metaresearch and Open Science

Developed by researchers for the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, this guidance and worked example outlines a data management plan for a randomized controlled trial conducted with 100 human participants. Demographic data will be collected from participants, and then other data is collected by an electroencephalogram, electroculogram, electromyogram, as well as video and sound.

McGill University
This DMP aims to collect demographic and lifetime fitness data from transplant experiments, as well as temperature data and tabular data. This data will be used to investigate if habitat availability declines towards the range edge of Rhinanthus minor.
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.
Fanshawe College
This DMP aims to collect textual information from articles found amongst seven research databases. This data will be used to explore the communication and correspondence between family caregivers and healthcare providers within long-term care.
University of Waterloo
This DMP aims to collect demographic, geographic, health, and personal data. This data will be used to describe and identify the factors associated with missing incidents of people living with dementia.
McMaster University
This DMP is a template created by McMaster’s Family of Medicine department.
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. 
Dalhousie University
This DMP aims to collect textual data including student responses, discussions, student performance statistics, circular materials, and other information. This data will be used to investigate collaborative discourse during the learning of procedural programming with the benefit of the online tool YellowDig. 
University of Guelph
This DMP aims to collect numeric data to  improve the productivity and profitability of Ontario garlic sector.
McMaster University
This DMP aims to collect survey data, assessment data, interview data, audio recordings, transcriptions, document drafts, and data tables. This data will be used to create a set of design principles to empower university-level instructors to either incorporate generative AI tool use in assessments or to limit the impact of generative AI on the integrity of assessments.
University of Ottawa Heart Institute; Metaresearch and Open Science

Developed by researchers for the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, this guidance and worked example outlines a hypothetical genomic study into acute lymphoblastic leukaemia using blood drawn from patients, healthy volunteers, and mouse models.

University of Saskatchewan; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
This DMP aims to collect plant phenomic and genomic data to increase crop yield, agricultural sustainability, and improve crop breeding.
University of Waterloo
This DMP aims to collect survey data to better understand the social divisions and social inequalities in Canada.
Dalhousie University
This DMP aims to collect textual data including student responses, student performance statistics, code, circular materials, and other information. This data will be used to understand the use of visual representations for instructional purposes with intelligent programming tutors.
Concordia University of Edmonton

This DMP aims to collect tweets from twitter, and use machine learning to analyze mental health patterns due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

University of Alberta; Digital Research Alliance of Canada

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. This example uses the new Alliance Simplified Template (Funding Application Stage) which focuses on 5 questions that are helpful for a DMP that meets new Tri-Agency requirements.

Montreal Neurological Institute

This DMP aims to collect reaction time, choice, and eye-tracking data which will be used for a mock behavioral and eye-tracking project.

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 British Columbia
This DMP aims to collect Qualtrics survey data in the efforts of examining open data practices amongst engineering researchers at UBC.
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.
McMaster University; Offord Center for Child Studies

This DMP aims to collect questionnaires, personal data, computer-based tasks & output, ECG’s, EDA’s, videos, audio recordings, data analysis files, linkage data, interviews, and transcripts. This data will be used for the Promoting Healthy Families project, which will assess whether Triple P and COSP can help promote healthy family relationships.

Dalhousie University
This DMP aims to collect textual data including student responses, student performance statistics, code, circular materials, and other information. This data will be used to investigate program comprehension during learning.
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.