Data Management: Plan

Data Management Plans (DMPs) are increasingly required as a part of the grant proposal submission process. DMPs have five components:

• A description of the data types that will be created or captured during the project.
• The standards that will be used for those data and their associated metadata.
• A description of storage provisions for archiving and preservation.
• A description of the access policies and provisions for reuse of data.
• Long-term plans for the transition or termination of data.

DMPTool  - Create data management plans that meet institutional and funder requirements.

Johns Hopkins DMP Questionnaire - A useful guide and foundation for developing your Data Management Plan as part of a grant proposal or at the start of a research project. 

NIH Key Elements to Consider In Preparing a Data Sharing Plan Under NIH Extramural Support - This resource document is intended to assist applicants by outlining certain key elements that should be addressed in any data sharing plan.

NIH Examples of Data Sharing Plans - The precise content and level of detail to be included in a data-sharing plan depends on several factors, such as whether or not the investigator is planning to share data, the size and complexity of the dataset, and the like.

Digital Curation Center Data Management Plans - Listing of resources.

UK Data Archive Managing and Sharing Data Best Practices for Researchers - Information designed to help researchers and data managers, across a wide range of research disciplines and research environments, produce highest quality research data with the greatest potential for long-term use.

Most funders now require that sufficiently detailed data management plans (DMPs) be  submitted as part of a research proposal. Research sponsors often have very specific DMP expectations.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

American Heart Association (AHA) 

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• NIH Data Sharing Policy
• NIH Data Sharing Policy and Implementation Guidance
• Data Sharing FAQs
• NIH Genomic Data Sharing

National Science Foundation (NSF)

• Dissemination and Sharing of Research Results
• Guidelines on Data Management Plans

 

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) - Recommendations for the conduct, reporting, editing, and publication of scholarly work in medical journals.

Nature - Nature has specific and well documented recommendations for different types of data, materials, and computer code.

PLoS - Full descriptions of the policies, along with any additional, journal specific requirements that authors must fulfill prior to publication.

PNAS - Authors required to make data, protocols, and materials available to researchers.

Science - Research standards and publication policies.

SHERPA/RoMEO - An online resource that aggregates and analyzes publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of self-archiving permissions and conditions of rights given to authors on a journal-by-journal basis.