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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Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect coastal data on waves mostly in the coastal US and South Pacific.
University of Delaware; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will utilize and analyze data from an already existing dataset to understand coastal ocean processes in North-East Greenland.
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.
University of Oklahoma; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data on student satisfaction and performance in a geoscience class when video linking course content to actual careers is shown versus when it is not.
UC San Diego; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
DMP for conducting computational neuroscience research to determine brain function.
University of Kansas; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data to establish a novel mode of interaction between fluids and solids.
University of Maine; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data on coral reefs in the Gulf of Maine to better understand how they impact their habitat, their rate of reproduction, and how other marine life uses the coral reefs.
UC San Diego; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is a sample data management plan from UC San Diego which details a strategy to collect and analyze data for research in the field of physical oceanography.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect hydrodynamic and ripple migration data to evaluate their impact of surf zone sediment transport and sandbar migration.
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.
University of Chicago; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to develop an annotation bank for day-long child-centric recordings that are already available to the research community based on an existing community data repository.
University of Arizona; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to utilize existing data to develop and disseminate a new software that researchers can use to access the Cloud in a more friendly manner.
UC San Diego; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is a data management plan from UC San Diego which details a strategy to collect and analyze data for application in the field of oceanography.
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP looks at light pollution samples acquired by photometers followed by subsequent analysis.
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.
Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental (CRIA); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to fill in and identify taxonomic and geographic information gaps of plants and fungi in Brazil.
Cambridge University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP outlines a plan for documenting, managing, and sharing code and (re-)interpretation of secondary data pertaining to protein localization and proteomics.
Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data on factors like wave height, temperature, etc. to create a dataset in order to better understand how the Kelp Forest Ecosystem responds to climate change and local disturbances.
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.

Digital Research Alliance of Canada; University of Waterloo
This is a data management plan example created by the Ecohydrology Research Group at the University of Waterloo. It presents a sample DMP for research work within the field involving laboratory, chemical, biological and numerical data.
University of the Virgin Islands; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP details a student research program that aims to build international research capacity in learners.
Lincoln University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data non-native plant species in New Zealand to determine the impact climate limitations have on their growth/numbers.
University of New Mexico; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is a data management plan that will collect patient and population-level data in order to determine the effectiveness of a new drug, rizatriptan on treating acute migraines at their onset or in a later phase.
University of Victoria
This DMP is created for the Groundwater Science and Sustainability Research Group at the University of Victoria. The DMP aims to collect various forms of data, with an emphasis on geospatial data, and is inspired by the ecohydrology specific DMP template at UVic.
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.
McGill University; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
This is a template DMP for clinical and biological research projects involving imaging. This particular example includes neuroimaging and pertains to the field of neurosciences.
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.
University of New Brunswick; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
This is a template DMP for use in projects that combine scientific methods with computer simulations/modelling to study molecular interactions.