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 British Columbia
This DMP aims to collect interviews, videos, transcripts, and word documents. This data will be used for the purpose of interviewing nursing librarians from CARL to understand what they learned from COVID-19 and their thoughts about academic support post-pandemic.
Washington University in St. Louis; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data from obese mice to investigate how the nucleus accumbens, a region in the brain changes as individuals gain and lose weight.
Association for Clinical Data Management (ACDM)
This DMP was created for the Association of Clinical Data Managers, and aims to provide a template and outline for use.
Coordination and Support Action (CSA)
This DMP was created for the AfricaMalVal project, which aims to develop EU-Africa partnership for responsible and sustainable sourcing of minerals.
Alaska Regional Office (AKRO); NOA Fisheries
This DMP was created for the Blend System, which aims to provide a comprehensive accounting of groundfish catch. The project collects digital numeric data, imagery, photographs, video, audio, database, and tabular data.
Alaska Regional Office (AKRO); NOA Fisheries
This DMP was created for the Catch Accounting System, which aims to create total catch estimates for the groundfish fisheries. This DMP outlines the collection of digital numeric data, imagery, photographs, video, audio, database, and tabular data.
Washington University in St. Louis; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP outlines the data management process of a human study evaluating the use of a novel drug, Ozurdex on treating Diabetic Macular Edema.
University of Sheffield; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is an annotated DMP template for a Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)grant containing guidance text produced by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and the University of Sheffield Library.
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.
University of North Carolina School of Medicine; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data obtained from wet-lab studies to investigate the immune response in the lungs in response to a bacterial infection of S. pneumoniae.
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 genomic data and subsequent phenotype data from cancerous mice models.

Curtin University
This DMP aims to collect survey data and motion analysis data to investigate shoulder biomechanics during MMA training.
University of New Mexico; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect samples from the field to better understand biogenic carbonates through investigating microbes and minerals.
UMC Utrecht
This DMP aims to collect quantitative human healthcare data from approximately 300 participants. This data will be used to provide an overview of surgical procedures for patients with clefts.
McMaster University
This DMP aims to collect info data, raw data, processed data, analyzed data, and report data. The goal of the project is to build a research and technology center to develop high-performance methods for biosensing and bioimaging.
UC San Diego
This is a data management plan from UC San Diego which details a plan for the CARE platform, which will create a software tool to access various datasets from selected sources.
UC San Diego; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will collect electrophysiological, histological, and head position data from rats to investigate the firing rate of neurons among other analyses to answer the research question.
CLARITY Consortium
This DMP is created for the CLARITY project which aims to provide an operational eco-system of cloud-based climate services.
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 collect and analyze demographic, clinical and MRI data from human subjects.
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.

National Institute on Aging (NIA); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This Data Management Plan example outlines a project based on electronic health record (EHR) data for approximately 15,000 patients in a primary care clinic. Researchers will be reviewing demographic data, as well as data from medical history, laboratory results, medications, physical and cognitive exams. Further, they will conduct cognitive assessments of a subset of 40 individuals.
National Institute on Aging (NIA); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is a DMP for a hypothetical project to collect clinical and demographic data from amyloid-positive cognitively normal older adults with symptomatic insomnia. Data will be shared in the National Centralized Repository for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (NCRAD).
Loughborough University
This DMP aims to collect survey and interview data, in the efforts of creating a resource for empowering and supporting teens to be curious and inquire about positive eating, body weight, and body image.
UC San Diego; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
DMP for conducting computational neuroscience research to determine brain function.
Innovative Medicines Initiative

This DMP was created for the ConcePTION project, which aims to create an ecosystem that will collect information regarding the effects of medications used during pregnancy and breastfeeding. The DMP will outline the collection of healthcare data, surveillance data, research data, pharmacovigilance data, human reported data, human milk and blood samples,  animal milk and blood data, and human cells.

Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is an example DMP that will collect demographic, clinical, and patient-centric data from banked biological material.
University College London
This DMP aims to understand the SARS-CoV-2 infection with the use of characteristic data,  symptom information, and various test results.
CRACKER Consortium
This DMP was created in accordance with the project CRACKER, which aims to “crack the language barrier”. The DMP outlines the collection of various forms of data including, text, audio, video, machine-readable dictionaries, terminological resources, and computational grammars.
CYBECO Consortium; University of Vienna (PHAIDRA)
This DMP was created for the CYBECO project, which aims to collect data from various studies, to be used for supporting cyber insurance from a behavioral perspective.
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
This DMP is curated for the Changing Children’s Chance’s project. The data collected will consist of survey data, LSAC data, and other observational based data.