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

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Clinical Data from Human Research Participants

Original Source

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.

Coordinated Governance

Original Source

University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance

This DMP aims to collect data from structured interviews and secondary data from COVID-19 hospitalizations and social distancing mobilization in Florida county health departments. This will be done in an attempt to understand "the roles and patterns of institutional collaborative mechanisms across scale and functions that are used to overcome collective action dilemmas produced by the COVID-19 pandemic."

Data Management Plan for Computational reproducibility in High-Performance Computing (HPC)

Original Source

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.

Data Management Plan for People, Places, Policies and Prospects: Affordable Rental Housing for Those in Greatest Need (example)

Original Source

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.

Data Management Plan: Opening access to economic data to prevent tobacco related diseases in Africa

Original Source

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.

Data Management Plan Template: Accessing Data from Research Data Centres (CRDCN)

Original Source

Canadian Research Data Centre Network; Digital Research Alliance of Canada

This is a template DMP for researchers conducting statistics based research for Statistics Canada.

Data Management Plan Template: Mixed Methods (Surveys & Qualitative Research)

Original Source

University of Alberta; Digital Research Alliance of Canada

This is a template DMP for mixed-methods research where data is obtained from surveys and qualitative interviews/focus groups.

Data Management Plan Template: Qualitative Health Sciences Research

Original Source

University of Saskatchewan; Digital Research Alliance of Canada

This is a template DMP for qualitative research projects in the health sciences conducted on human participants.

Data Management Plan Template: Research Data Centres and External Analysis (CRDCN)

Original Source

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.

Data Management Plan Template: Systematic Reviews

Original Source

University of Calgary; Digital Research Alliance of Canada

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

EAGER: PBI: Designing Public Use Microdata Business Areas (PUMBAs) for Innovation

Original Source

RTI International

This DMP aims to collect geographic data, survey data, statistics, microdata, and code.

Employee Perception of Economic Outlook in Myanmar’s International Business Environment: An Assessment of Optimism and Pessimism

Original Source

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 Data management plan

Original Source

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.

Mixed Methods Research Example - Funding Application Stage (2024)

Original Source

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.

Mock Behavioral and Eye-Tracking Project with Human participants

Original Source

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.

R2PI Data Management Plan

Original Source

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.

Sample Data Management Plan for Depositing Data with ICPSR

Original Source

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

This is a sample data management plan created by the ICPRSR, intended to be edited and customized by the user. It is a general data management template with basic information filled in to give researchers an idea of where to start.

Secondary data analysis

Original Source

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 perform secondary analysis on data collected from human subjects.

Survey and Interview Example

Original Source

National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)

This is an example of a data management plan from the NIH, intended to collect anthropologic and public policy data from surveys and interviews.