Data Management Plans & Grant Support

Planning Your Data Management & Sharing Strategy

Budgeting for Curation

ICPSR provides no-cost data archiving for most individual research projects and there is typically no required fee for standard archiving and curation services. However, some funders may ask that you include a data management/archiving budget line in your grant proposal, or you may wish to make your data “open access” (freely available beyond ICPSR’s membership). Learn how to accomplish both with ICPSR’s support.

Grant Support

Join the world’s most trusted social science data archive. ICPSR provides the expertise and infrastructure to help you meet funder requirements and amplify the impact of your work.

• Templates: View a sample DMS plan for depositing data with ICPSR, as well as a downloadable NIH DMS plan (.docx) with boilerplate text (“copy-and-paste” language describing ICPSR’s security and preservation protocols to include in proposals)
• Letters of Support: reach out to us at ICPSR-help@umich.edu to request an official ICPSR letter for a grant

Additional resources by funding agency

• Guidance for HEAL Researchers
• Guidance for NIDILRR Investigators

Videos and webinars for NIH grant applicants

• Share Your NIH (and other) Data: Preparing
• Designating ICPSR in your NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan
• Navigating NIH’s Data Management & Sharing Policy with ICPSR’s NIH-Funded Projects
• NIH Data Sharing Guidelines: Charting the Course for Compliance
• Creating an NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan with ICPSR

FAQs

• What is a DMS Plan?
• Do I need to pay ICPSR to make data from my NSF grant available?
• The generic examples that ICPSR provides are great, but they are boilerplate. Would that be a problem during agency review?
• Does ICPSR have people who can assist in the preparation of metadata?
• What are ICPSR’s deposit options? How much does it cost to deposit? Why would I want ICPSR to curate my data?