Create a data management plan
Decisions made as early as possible about data management can save you a great deal of time and simplify your research. A research data management plan (DMP) helps you structure your thinking about how to organize your data and what the data management will cost in time and money. A DMP can also help you plan for any regulatory, ethical, and open access issues during and after your project. Many funders require that grant holders have data management plans in place from the beginning. If the DMP is kept up to date throughout the research project it can be a useful resource when documenting methods, results, costs, and so on. This is especially relevant for projects that will run for several years or involve several researchers. The basic elements in a DMP A research data management plan (DMP) describes how research data will be collected, managed, organised, stored and made accessible during the research process and how it will be preserved long-term after the project is complete. The following checklist covers the basic elements of a simple DMP:
Funders' requirements
Many funders not only require grant holders to have DMPs, but they also have specific requirements for DMP design and content. The Swedish Research Council and Formas, for example, recommend following the Science Europe guidelines for DMPs.
Use the DMPonline tool to create and manage your data management plans. The tool includes specific templates for different funders and also a template developed by Lund University; which matches the structure and standard template used in the previous tool for data management plans, DMP Roadmap. The templates are designed to meet the requirements of Science Europe. You can also ask the Library of Science librarians for feedback on your DMP through DMPonline
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DMP Roadmap is the tool previously used for data management plans at Lund University. This is being replaced by the new tool DMPonline. It is still possible to find and download old data management plans in PDF format from the DMP Roadmap, but it is no longer possible to create new or edit existing plans. We will, over time, move older data management plans to the new DMPonline tool.