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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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.
McMaster University
This data management plan template is designed to facilitate group collaboration among a diverse range of stakeholders, including artists, researchers, research participants, social service workers, community organizers, and community workers. It is intentionally crafted in plain language to facilitate accessibility and understanding for all parties involved. Additionally, it frames the process as conversation as opposed to a more traditional form, fostering relational approaches to interdisciplinary collaboration.
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.
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.

Toronto Metropolitan University
This DMP aims to collect press reports, box office records, films, interviews, and MAXQDA files. The goal of the project is to study cultural diversity in film festivals.
Natural Justice; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data on Indigenous experiences with climate change and the licensing behind data produced by these communities.
Digital Research Alliance of Canada; University of Waterloo

This DMP example show uses a case study of relativistic astrophysics and gravitational physics data to show how management strategies can support computational reproducibility in High-Performance Computing. Data are the inputs and outputs of the numerical simulation model.

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.

University of Cape Town (SA); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will collect and make publicly available tobacco related data in certain African countries to increase research in this field such that a continent-wide approach to tobacco control can be developed.
University of Calgary; Digital Research Alliance of Canada

This is a template DMP for use in systematic review projects in any field.

University of Edinburgh
This DMP aims to collect questionnaire data that will be analyzed. This data is collected in the effort to recognize the University of Edinburgh’s past of enslavement and colonialism, while also providing a vision for institutional and cultural development in the future.
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.

RTI International
This DMP aims to collect geographic data, survey data, statistics, microdata, and code.
Umeå University
This DMP aims to study the positive effects of Everyday Life Rehabilitation (ELR). Data collected includes daily functioning data, goal attainment scaling information, documentation, interviews, and questionnaire information.
University of Plymouth
This DMP aims to collect survey data to be used for understanding the employee perception of the economic outlook in Myanmar.
EuDEco Consortium; University of Vienna (PHAIDRA)
This DMP aims to collect case study data, model data, survey data, and observational data for the EuDEco project. This project will indulge in establishing a self-sustaining data market in the context of developing the data economy.
University of Nottingham
This DMP aims to collect survey data that will be used to provide the information needed to further inform and address food insecurity in Nottinghamshire.
University of East Anglia; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP was curated for the purpose of using MRI, TMS, and case report form data to analyze functional strength training for upper limb recovery after stroke.
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.

Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will use information from police incident and investigation reports from 5 different jurisdictions in America to investigate the impact 25 specific demographic factors have on how a case is sentenced or whether it is charged.
Mobilise-D Consortium
This DMP aims to collect multi-sensor-lab data, single-sensor data, multi-sensor-home data, patient reported outcomes, semi-structured interviews, GPS annotated data, and legacy data. This data will be used for the Mobilise-D project which will connect digital mobility assessments to clinical outcomes for regulatory and clinical endorsement.
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.

National Institute on Aging (NIA); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect videographic data to generate cardiac physiological profiles taking into consideration behavioral and autonomic nervous system data from 500 subjects.
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.

R2PI Consortium; University of Vienna (PHAIDRA)
This DMP aims to collect research and case study data for the R2Pi project, which has the intent of developing sustainable business models to create a circular economy.
University of Alabama Birmingham; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is an example DMP that aims to collect gene and protein expression data to assess DNA methylation and its impact on cardiac function.
Stanford University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect patient clinical data in order to develop a guideline to diagnose teens suffering from MSK pain.