This guide is an introduction to data management and sharing plans (DMSPs). It covers how to create your own plan, how to share data, and offers convenient summaries of the most common agency data sharing requirements found at Iowa State.
Core concepts provides an overview of vocabulary and concepts needed to complete a plan.
Create a plan walks you through the six elements found in nearly every data management and sharing plan and provides writing prompts from different federal agencies.
Data sharing requirements contains plain language summaries of current requirements for select federal funders.
Data sharing provides best practices for data sharing and an outline of how to prepare to share data.
The Iowa State University Library provides access to the DMPTool which can help you write a data management and sharing plan. DMPTool offers templates for most agencies as well as sample plans (quality varies). It is recommended that you use this guide in tandem with DMPTool.
Iowa State researchers can request pre-writing consultations and plan reviews by emailing DataShare@iastate.edu or by contacting Megan O'Donnell, Research data services lead at mno@iastate.edu.
This guide was developed as a resource to help researchers write data and sharing management plans that accompany grant proposals.
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