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 Texas at San Antonio; Qualitative Data Management Plan (DMP) Competition
This DMP collects histories and experiences of members of the Hispanic community in San Antonia during COVID-19.
Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP is curated to document 20 – 25 digital stories depicting Detroit’s ethnic histories. The data collected will include a combination of digital images, audio and video.

Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP aims to collect survey data, digital scans, transcriptions, and fieldnotes from observations.

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.
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.
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.

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.
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); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
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; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will conduct open data pilot case studies investigate, develop, and implement open data management and sharing plans.
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.
Canadian Research Data Centre Network; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
This is a template DMP for researchers conducting statistics based research for Statistics Canada.
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 North Carolina Chapel Hill; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
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; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
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; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
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).
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.
Canadian Research Data Centre Network; Digital Research Alliance of Canada

This is a template DMP for researchers conducting statistics based research for Statistics Canada for use in external analyses and applications.

University of Edinburgh
This DMP aims to collect questionnaire data that will be analyzed. This data is collected in the effort to recognize the University of Edinburgh’s past of enslavement and colonialism, while also providing a vision for institutional and cultural development in the future.
University of Kansas; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP outlines the steps that will be taken when digitizing herbarium samples include images of herbarium specimens, specimen data, georeferenced data, programming, and more.
University of Cambridge; University of Vienna (PHAIDRA)
This DMP was created for the DIGIWHIST project which aims to systematically evaluate information on public procurement in 35 jurisdictions across Europe. Data collected includes procurement data, and public sector data.
Georgia State University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to conduct secondary health data analysis including survey and electronic health records to assess substance use amongst women stratified by sexual orientation.
University of Leeds; Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
Includes two example DMPs from the University of Leeds covering research involving the collection of primary data by use of interviews and focus groups.
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect clinical and demographic data to better understand the association between balance deficits and urinary tract infections as well as low back pain.
University of Ottawa Heart Institute; Metaresearch and Open Science

Developed by researchers for the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, this guidance and worked example extracts examples from Beck, Leblanc, and Morissette's systematic review protocol on depression screening of children and adolescents. It outlines a data management plan for a systematic review study.

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 data management plan for a pre-clinical laboratory animal study. This DMP outlines a project to explore stroke treatments using biocellulose duroplasty with rat 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 data management plan for a randomized controlled trial conducted with 100 human participants. Demographic data will be collected from participants, and then other data is collected by an electroencephalogram, electroculogram, electromyogram, as well as video and sound.

University of California, Irvine; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect qualitative and quantitative survey information to improve DMPs and make them more actionable.
National Institute on Aging (NIA); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is a DMP for a hypothetical drug discovery including intellectual property using mice: chemical structures, workflows, medicinal and analytical chemistry, histopathology, immunohistochemistry, and PET imaging. Data and protocols are proposed to be shared in PubChem and AD Knowledge Portal.