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
Last modified Jun 05, 2025
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Alaska Regional Office (AKRO); NOA Fisheries
This DMP was created for Platform Removal Observer Program databases. The project collects digital numeric data, imagery, photographs, video, audio, database, and tabular data.
UC San Diego; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will utilize proteomics, biochemistry, genetics, and microscopic tools to understand the role specific proteins play in polarized cell division.
High Point University; Western Washington University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is a DMP for conducting ethnographic research in order to ascertain the impact of novel urban policies in Nicaragua.
Bates College; Qualitative Data Management Plan (DMP) Competition
This DMP lays out a plan for fieldnotes, interview notes and recordings, survey responses, and metadata to analyze playtesting in videogame development.
University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP seeks to collect data on precipitation level and the corresponding temperature to create a dataset that analyses the relationship between the above.
Technische Universität Wien; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will measure the relationship between weather observations and prevalence of influence through analyzing and collecting instrument datasets on weather and influenza occurrences.
UC San Diego
This data management plan is from Allan Snavely's proposal to the Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastructure (STCI) program.
Iowa State University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will collect data from various cellular techniques like mass spectrometer, PCR, western blots, etc. to answer the research question.
Brigham Young University–Hawaii
This DMP was created for the Indigo project which aims to use research and innovation to empower Pacific indigenous communities. The DMP outlines the collection of interview recordings, transcripts, survey responses, and related documents.
University of Massachusetts Amherst; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data to answer the following research question: "Why did the United States and Germany extend the franchise to racialized minorities respectively in the 1960s and 1990s whereas Austria persisted their disenfranchising citizenship policy?"
Clark University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data in order to administer a racial equity toolkit to prevent gun and youth violence amongst specifically racialized Black and Latinx youth.
Washington University in St. Louis; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data from interviews of Senegalese Men to better understand their attitudes towards masculinity and pregnancy.
Princeton University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data from support groups for those abused by clergy and semi-structured interviews to better understand the experiences of survivors of sexual assault.
Purdue University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data on "student outcomes related to learning, application of professional competencies, design and project management tool use, final product quality, and satisfaction with course" to "guide the development" of Engineering Technology Capstone courses.
UC San Diego; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is a sample data management plan from UC San Diego which details a proposal to conduct research on nanoelectronics.
University of Kentucky; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP outlines the data that will be collected from a novel program, REU that aims to increase undergraduate student engagement in research, particularly in the field of Engineered Bioactive Interfaces and Devices.
DataOne
This DMP aims to collect data on water resources of the Rio Grande in an effort to create a geodatabase.
Mississippi State University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data on student learning experiences, teacher evaluations, student performances, and other pedagogical techniques to evaluate the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program.
Texas A&M University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will collect genomic, phenomic, and bioinformatic data through observational and experimental methods in order to characterize the genetic trait profile of roots.
Caribou Biofuels, Inc; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data on the types of municipal waste generated at a University in New York and the amount of energy generated when that waste is processed through a gasifier.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
"This data management plan (DMP) describes how the Safety through Disruption (Safe-D) National University Transportation Center (UTC) will comply with the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) policy on the dissemination and sharing of research results. The DMP defines how Safe-D researchers will handle digital data both during and after a research project."
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
This is a sample data management plan created by the ICPRSR, intended to be edited and customized by the user. It is a general data management template with basic information filled in to give researchers an idea of where to start.
University of Texas at Austin
This DMP is an annotated sample DMP in the linguistics field. The data collected in this sample consists of audio and written notes.
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP from the NHGRI aims to collect data from 3000 surveys and 100 interviews with patients, healthcare providers, and industry professionals. This will take the form of survey data, coding schemes, voice recordings, interview transcripts, and metadata.
University of Alabama Birmingham; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is an example DMP that aims to collect quantitative postpartum data from 60 obese/overweight women.
University of Alabama Birmingham; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is a sample DMP that will be collecting quantitative data to develop a novel database for the new genome sequencing data for the pathogen, streptococcus pneumoniae.
University of Alabama Birmingham; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is an example DMP that aims to collect gene and protein expression data to assess DNA methylation and its impact on cardiac function.
University of Alabama Birmingham; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is a sample DMP that retrospectively analyzes human cases of bacterial infections to create a database of clinical cases, bacterial infections, genomic sequences, etc.
Binghamton University
This DMP is a sample plan for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
Christopher Newport University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will generate draft papers, software prototypes, configurational files, and other computational applications to improve cryptographic software fingerprinting.
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