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 Sheffield

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.

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."

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; 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; University of Alberta

This fictional data management plan focuses on caring for mixed methods research through survey data, interviews, and focus groups. For the purposes of training, this DMP assumes data collected by the study will not be sensitive, and that participants have consented for their de-identified information to be deposited into a data repository in support of preservation and open research.

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.

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.

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).

Leiden University

This is a DMP template for researchers at Leiden University, The Netherlands. It has a checkbox format instead of a paragraph format which could be useful for certain researchers.

University of Calgary
This is a template DMP for use in systematic review projects in any field.
University of Alberta
This is a template DMP for mixed-methods research where data is obtained from surveys and qualitative interviews/focus groups.
University of Saskatchewan
This is a template DMP for research project utilizing technology and/or software for application in healthcare and medicine.
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 does not contain Personal Identifiable Information (PII).

Rice University

This is a set of sample DMPs produced by the Rice Research Data Management Team containing a preamble explaining recommended content and two Sample DMPs for Biosciences and Social and Behavioral Sciences.

University of Maryland, College Park

This DMP highlights how a Digital Curation Innovation Center will manage its data.

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.

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."

University of Alabama

This DMP aims to collect data to better understand the relationship between ethnic heterogeneity and public goods provision across Latin America.

Florida Atlantic University

This DMP aims to collect data for a Master thesis by interviewing en-wheeled women to better understand how they may engage in "hyperfeminist as a stigma management technique in order to diminish a sexualization."