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: 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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University of California, Davis

This DMP aims to collect and sample data from the Twitter API for subsequent use in social science research to better understand social media communication during a crisis.

High Point University, Western Washington University

This is a DMP for conducting ethnographic research in order to ascertain the impact of novel urban policies in Nicaragua.

University of Massachusetts Amherst

This DMP investigates Afro-descendant movement in Latin America and subsequent self-determined collectives using participant observation, semi-structured interviews, & participatory workshops.

Brown University

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 nonwhite broadcasters and public radio employees in the USA and Australia to analyze diversity efforts in Public Radio Organizations.

University of Glasgow

This data management plan from the University of Glasgow aims to build two online atlases of Scots syntactic features with a "Google Maps" style interface with audio recordings and geospatial, sociological and biographical material.

Delft University of Technology
This DMP aims to collect data on human behaviour when faced with moral decisions via mathematical choice models.
TU Delft

This DMP aims to collect data to evaluate how people behave when placed in "moral choice situations."

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

This project aims to ascertain whether "four approaches" can "improve the education and degree completion of low-income students at public STEM-focused Hispanic serving institutions."

Newcastle University

This DMP will collect data on "audio-recordings of conversations during workshops", observational notes, summary of main points, and videos generated by study participants to answer the research question.

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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."

University of Texas at San Antonio

This DMP collects histories and experiences of members of the Hispanic community in San Antonia during COVID-19.

Digital Research Alliance of Canada; University of Alberta

This is an example data management plan from the Alliance which intends to study the historical and cultural influence of Belgian and French immigrants to the Canadian Prairies. The data collected for analysis include text-based, image and geographical data.

University Lumiere Lyon 2

This DMP aims to collect data to understand "educational actors cooperate or compete around the definition of knowledge that is worthy of circulation in an education dialogue."

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.

Digital Research Alliance of Canada; Simon Fraser University

This sample data management plan from the Alliance aims to create a comprehensive digital database of women's contributions to print culture from 1750 to 1830. It uses data collected from a variety of digital databases and print bibliographies and uses a metadata schema developed by the authors.

HarassMap (EGY)

This DMP will collect data on reports and incidences of sexual harassment in Egypt via crowdsourced reports, traditional field data, and social media conversations to develop a map documenting locations and instances of sexual harassment.

Curtin University

This DMP will conduct open data pilot case studies investigate, develop, and implement open data management and sharing plans.

Digital Research Alliance of Canada; Université de Montréal

This is an example data management plan from the Alliance which describes a fictional research project which involves the collection of soundscapes from monasteries. The fictional researcher intends to collect audio data (WAV files) in order to facilitate analysis.

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

This is a DMP template for researchers at the H.W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science applying to the National Science Foundation (NSF). This DMP template is for data that does not contain Personal Identifiable Information (PII).

University of Ottawa; CAU Kiel University
This is a template DMP for mixed social sciences research projects that adopt an open scholarship workflow and produce both qualitative and quantitative datasets.
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

This is a DMP template for researchers at the H.W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science applying to the National Science Foundation (NSF). This DMP template is for data that contains Personal Identifiable Information (PII).

Université du Québec à Montréal
This is a template DMP for researchers conducting historical research within the humanities utilizing analog research data.
University of Alberta
This is a template DMP for arts-based research intending for projects that will utilize artistic research methods.
University of Alabama

This DMP aims to collect data from public records and judicial proceedings to investigate and better understand the litigation process.

University of Leeds

Includes two example DMPs from the University of Leeds covering research involving the collection of primary data by use of interviews and focus groups.

University of California, Irvine

This DMP aims to collect qualitative and quantitative survey information to improve DMPs and make them more actionable.

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This DMP will collect qualitative and quantitative information on cognitive, affective, and developmental data of human subjects to ascertain the impact financial constraints have on the academic performance of University students.

The University of Texas at Dallas

This DMP aims to collect data in order to better understand neocolonialism in the context of "unethical policies, practices, and systemic violence in early 21st Century International Development."