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

Search and Browse Data Management Plans

Displaying 61 - 90 of 157

Johns Hopkins University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect and create a public dataset of over 4000 MRI and CT scans of patients with various brain illnesses including but not limited to acute stroke and manual lesions.
McMaster University
This DMP is a template created by McMaster’s Family of Medicine department.
FEAST Consortium
This DMP was created for the FEAST project, which aims to collect images, video, audio, presentation, questionnaires, interviews, and documentation data. The project itself intends to use this data to study food systems that support transitions to healthy and sustainable diets.
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.
SYNYO GmbH; LIBER
This DMP aims to collect data on text and data mining (TDM) laws in Europe in order to reduce barriers for researchers to use these datasets.
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. 
National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
This is a sample data management plan from the NIH, intended for submission to the NICHD, that describes a plan to create and preserve biological data from different types of fish embryos.
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.
Dartmouth College; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect genomic data to isolate and analyze DNA and RNA in bulk tissue samples.
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 genomic, phenotypic, and clinical data from human subjects.

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance

This example DMP aims to collect genomic and phenotypic data from 36 human subjects.

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 genomic data from animal (mice) and human 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 hypothetical genomic study into acute lymphoblastic leukaemia using blood drawn from patients, healthy volunteers, and mouse models.

University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This outlines best practices to include when writing DMPs. It shares examples of good language included in DMPs to highlight the importance of specificity in describing privacy and licensing, procedures, roles and responsibilities, data sharing, metadata, citation, and long-term archiving. It also gives examples of bad language in DMPs to demonstrate poor data management strategies.
ISGLOBAL
This DMP was created for the Harmonic project which aims to collect cancer patient data, cardiac patient data, as well as biomarker analysis data. The overall goal of the project is to build two cohorts of pediatric populations treated with medical ionizing radiation. The two cohorts are cardiac patients and cancer patients.
Women Food and Agriculture Network
This DMP aims to collect both digital and non-digital including online program participant registrations, outreach materials, project activity tracking, and assessment questionnaires. This data will be used in the effort of providing more opportunities for women farmers, as well as boosting aspects of confidence, interest, commitment, and connectivity with respect to the farming field.
N/A
This DMP aims to collect health information and educational resources for women with epilepsy from preconception to postpartum. The resources consist of texts, audio, video, and apps.
University of Helsinki (UH)
This DMP was created for the HERCULES project, which aims to perform single-cell analysis to characterize and target high-grade serous ovarian cancer.
N/A
This DMP aims to collect test data, questionnaires, body measurements, video, pictures, and text related to interventions. Thai data will be used to assess a home-based exercise program for individuals with breast or prostate cancer.
Karolinska Institutet
This DMP aims to collect data from medical records to be used in cohort studies, case-control studies and risk-prediction studies. These studies are performed in the effort of increasing person-centered care during labor.
National Institute on Aging (NIA); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will collect data to generate whole genome sequencing data from blood sample obtained from 3200 non-Hispanic White patients with Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease.
National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

This is an example of a data management plan from the NIH, intended for submission to the NICHD, that details a plan to collect and deidentify clinical, laboratory and genomic data from 1000 participants.

National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

This is an example of a data management plan from the NIH, intended to collect data from a phase 3 RCT on preeclampsia.

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

This is a sample data management plan from the NIH, intended for submission to the NHGRI, that provides an outline for a project involving human genomic and clinical data.

National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
This data management plan from the NIH, intended for submission to the NICHD, details a plan to collect and preserve interview data and time diaries from children and their caregivers.
University of Manchester
This DMP aims to collect tissue from failed cartilage surgery. The goal of the project is to identify mechanisms of failure.
Stanford University
This DMP was created for exploring cooperative and sustainable agriculture movements/practices in India. It aims to collect digital recordings, transcriptions, interviews, biographical sketches, photographs and scans, notes, field notes, and observational data.
Genesys Consortium
This DMP is for the gEneSys project that aims to develop a better understanding on gendered power relations with respect to energy transitions. The project will mainly collected inputs from the public, including interview, survey, and assessment data.
Enedis
This DMP was created for the InterFlex project, which aims to look at ways to adapt and modernize the electric distribution system. The DMP will outline the collection of documents, financial data, facility data, network data, and customer data.
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.