Data Management Plan Blog
Preparing data management plans to include in grant applications is a topic of great interest for the ICPSR community and beyond. This Data Management Plan Blog provides a forum for questions and comments about data management plans. Populated initially with questions received during a recent ICPSR Webinar on the topic, the Data Management Plan Blog is open to anyone who wants to pose a question or provide a comment.
Questions on the Blog include:
- Will ICPSR give estimates of costs for data archiving at the time of proposal submission for inclusion in the budget? Is there a standard fee schedule or range of costs for reference?
- Will NIH and NSF allow investigators to request funds to pay for data archiving -- assistance in preparing data for archiving in the final year of the grant?
- Do you have recommendations for Intellectual Property language for proposals that are collaborative and involve two or more PIs at two or more institutions, who will be generating data together?
- The example statement for Intellectual Property has me confused. I understood that the data cannot be copyrighted, but the example statement says the researcher holds copyright. Since your examples will be heavily used, can you explain a little more about what is meant here?
Guidelines for Effective Data Management Plans
Many federal funding agencies, including NIH and most recently NSF, are requiring that grant applications contain data management plans for projects involving data collection. To support researchers in meeting this requirement, ICPSR is providing guidance on creating such plans.
Creating a Data Management Plan
- Elements of a plan
- Framework for creating a plan
- DMPTool
- Create ready-to-use plans for specific funding agencies - Webinar on data management plans
Depositing Data with ICPSR
Resources and Examples
Questions?
Download these guidelines as a single PDF.
