Research Data Management

Public Research Funders

• White House mandates
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Department of Defense (DOD)
• Department of Education 
• Department of Energy
• Department of Transportation
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• National Endowment for the Arts
• National Endowment for the Humanities 
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR)
• Smithsonian Institution 
• U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS)
• U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
• U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA)
• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

Private Research Funders

• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 

Data management plans (DMPs) are documents prepared by researchers as they are planning a project and writing a grant proposal. DMPs typically address

• The types of data to be collected
• Data format, including data and metadata standards
• Plans for sharing data, including policies affecting access and reuse of the data by other researchers
• Plans for archiving and preserving the data

More guidance on what should go into a DMP can be found at

• Data Management Planning : Self Assessment (Columbia University Center for Digital Research and Scholarship)
• Elements of a Data Management Plan (ICPSR: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
• Framework for Creating a Data Management Plan (ICPSR: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
• Write a data management plan (MIT Libraries: Data management)
• Data Management Planning (Data One)

DMPTool can guide you through the creation of a data management plan that will meet your funder's requirements. DMPTool is widely used by researchers at institutions around the U.S.