Research Guides: Guide to Scholarly Writing, Publishing, and Research Impact: Data Management Plans (DMPs)

Data Management Plans (DMPs)

If your research involves data collection, you should have a plan for how you will describe, store, and share that data.

The resources below can help you understand when, why, and how to create a plan for managing and sharing your data.

Reviewing the FAIR principles of research data will also help you in developing a good data management plan.

DMP Tool
DMPTool is a free tool from the University of California to help researchers create, review, and share data management plans that meet requirements from institutions and funding agencies such as NIH, NSF, DOD, DOJ, and so forth. Provides templates and guidance throughout your DMP creation. NOTE: Click "Log in" and choose SHSU from the list of institutions to login with your SHSU account.
Quick-Start Guide for Using DMPTool
Data Management General Guidance (from DMPTool)
How to create a good data management plan
by Rob Hooft, for Elsevier Authors' Update, 28 September 2016
Data Management Plans for the Social Sciences: Templates & Examples
Compiled by the University of Michigan Library
What to Keep? A Jisc Research Data Study
(Feb 2019)

Primer for Protecting Sensitive Data in Academic Research
"This primer helps individual researchers, managers of research data services, and organizational leaders understand how and why to integrate data protection activities into their practices through the collaborative endeavor of research data management."