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The DMPTool is a free, open-source, online application that helps researchers create data management plans. These plans, or DMPs, are now required by many funding agencies as part of the proposal submission process. The DMPTool provides a click-through wizard for creating a DMP that complies with...

This handbook briefly explain how to make data open, why manage data, responsibilities in research data management and what concretely is a data management plan (DMP).

This book’s online resources are organised around the different phases of the research data lifecycle, to offer the support you need to complete each stage of your research project successfully.

Pre-registration and registered reports are increasingly advocated to improve the credibility and rigor of empirical research. Pre-registration and more strongly registered reports are expected to reduce reporting and publication bias because they request researchers to define a detailed research...

The Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving is aimed at those engaged in the cycle of research, from applying for a research grant, through the data collection phase, and ultimately to preparation of the data for deposit in a public archive. The Guide is a compilation of best pract...

Data management describes the handling, organisation, and structuring of research material during the research process. On these pages SND has collected useful information about how to maintain, preserve and share research data.

This guide helps drafting a data management plan (DMP) from the perspective of the social sciences. Drawing on the model developed by the Swiss National Science Foundation, it provides recommendations and tips on how to address the main topics of the DMP so that it fulfils the funder’s requiremen...

This OpenAIRE webinar gives recommendations for improve DMP templates based on their survey on the Horizon 2020 DMP template.

This joint EUDAT- OpenAIRE webinar inform researchers on how they should write their DMP. Webinar recording and presentation available.

NSD offers a tool for creating a data management plan. It is a functional tool for writing and updating a DMP dynamically. The resulting DMP is stored and is avialable via login at NSD, and can be downloaded. Further functionalities will be added (e.g. the possibility to share the DMP with other...