Data Management Plans are required components for some grant proposals that outline how the principle investigators will manage and share their primary research data. Agencies that have policies governing the management and sharing of data include:
No two data management plans will ever be the same! Each project is unique and therefore its strategy for managing and sharing data will also be unique.
The DMPTool is a free service that provides templates and sample language and lets you create data management plans for specific funding agencies.
If you are UMass Chan Medical School faculty member preparing a Data Management and Sharing Plan, consider our Institutional Repository, eScholarship@UMassChan as a sustainable, managed platform for resource sharing, including data. The template language below can be used to describe the repository service in grant proposals. Contact us for more information about eScholarship and how the library can help you share data.
The data will be deposited into eScholarship@UMassChan, the Lamar Soutter Library's hosted institutional repository, which is an open access platform for dissemination and long-term storage of university research data. In addition, eScholarship@UMassChan maintains persistent DOIs for datasets, facilitating data citations. In accordance with eScholarship@UMassChan policies, the (deidentified, if applicable) data will be accompanied by the appropriate documentation, metadata, and code to facilitate reuse and provide the potential for interoperability with similar datasets.