Printer-friendly versionThe University of Alabama has joined the DMPTool community to provide assistance in constructing data management plans for grant proposals.  Arrangements have been made to customize the DMPTool for UA use. This support is provided via a partnership among the Office of Research, Office of Information Technology, and University Libraries.  

Steps to Get Started

1. Become aware of the OIT data managment services available on campus and shared server/storage resources and costs.  (You may freely cut and paste from these documents into your plan.)
2. Log into DMPTool with your campus myBama login credentials.  
3. Select a funding agency, and begin creating your data management plan.  

For assistance or questions, contact Tom Wilson, Associate Dean, Libraries.

Please send comments on the usefulness and suggestions for improvement of the DMPTool or UA's support for data management to: RDMPHELP@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Primers

• DataOne Primer on Data Management  (Good overview of data management.)
• MANTRA Research Data Management Training (Aimed at PhD students and early career researchers.)
• University of Bath, Research Data

Example DMP's

• Data-Driven Descriptor Models for Guiding Metal Nanoparticle Synthesis

UA Information

Office of Research

• Office of Sponsored Programs, NSF Data Management Page
• Data Ownership and Retention Policy
• Research Using a Limited Data Set
• Protection of Human Research Participants' Privacy and Confidentiality

Agency and Government Regs

Whitehouse

• Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research [February 22, 2013]

NSF

• NEW NSF Grant-Submission Rules (Review in the Chronicle, 1/9/2013)
• Dissemination and Sharing of Research Results
• Data Management & Sharing FAQ 
• Funding for data storage can be charged to the grant.

Data Management Planning, Publishing, and Best Practices

Tulane University Researcher Services

• particularly Metadata Schema

Georgia Tech
Johns Hopkins University/Data Conservancy

• particularly Overview of Plan Content

MIT
University of California/California Digital Library
University of Idaho
University of South Florida
University of Virginia

Data Conservancy "Stack Model"


                                                                                                             http://dataconservancy.org/

Data Lifecycle, Curation, and Long-term Access

International Association for Social Sciences Information Services and Technology
Rutgers
UK Data Archive
Alabama Digital Preservation Network