Data Management Resources
DMP Tool Templates
The DMPTool helps researchers create data management plans (DMP). It provides guidance from specific funders who require DMPs, but the tool can be used by anyone interested in developing generic DMPs to help facilitate their research. The tool also offers resources and services available at participating institutions to help fulfill data management requirements. The following templates are to provide guidance for these participating institutions which are responsible for data management support through their institutional DMPTool.
Texas Data Repository Data Management Plan Guidance
Data Management Plan Guidance for the Texas Data Repository
Texas Data Repository Member Data Management Plan Templates
- Suggested language for the sections of Data Sharing and Metadata of a DMP.
- Guidance for writing many sections of the DMP, and suggesting language for Data Storage describing the Texas Data Repository.
Baylor University language:
- All described data will be deposited into Baylor University’s data repository, BEARdata (http://beardata.baylor.edu), which is part of the Texas Data Repository (TDR). The Texas Digital Library hosts and maintains the TDR which runs on the Dataverse platform. TDR provides archive services such as migration, secure backup, and bit-level checksums and is regularly preserved in Chronopolis.
Data in BEARdata/TDR are assigned DOIs, and metadata for the project data will provide information on subject, provenance, authorship, methods and post-processing, and licensing. All data in the TDR are also indexed in multiple locations including Harvard Dataverse, DataCite Commons, and Google’s research dataset search.
Other Data Management Templates
- A DMPTool sponsored site which shows funder requirements for many private funders and includes some sample plans and templates. However, researchers should always consult the program officers and policy documents directly for authoritative guidance.
National Science Foundation: NSF-BIO: Biological Sciences, Data Management Plan Template
National Science Foundation: NSF-EAR: Earth Sciences, Data Management Plan Template
Sample Data Usage Agreement
LibGuides and Websites
The following are Texas Data Repository Member Libraries' Libguides and other websites focused on data management.
LibGuides
- Data Management Plans: Data Management Basics, Baylor University Libraries
- Research Data Management, Texas A&M University Libraries
- Data Management and Planning, Texas State University Libraries
- Data Management: Overview, Texas Tech University Libraries
- Data Management Resources, University of Houston Libraries
Websites
- Research and Data Management, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
- Cougar ROAR (Research Open Access Repositories), University of Houston Libraries
- Research Data Services, University of Texas at Austin Libraries
- Research Data Management, Texas State University