Data Management Plans: DMP Services

Many funding agencies require a DMP to be submitted with the grant proposal. Depending on the funding agency, the DMP format and requirements vary. 

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Collation) has a resource for determining federal funder requirements: Data Sharing Requirements by Federal Agency

DMPTool.org

This tool has templates for federal agencies, as well as templates contributed by other researchers, all designed to meet the current requirements for federal grants and contracts. The tool prompts you with guidelines and questions specific to your funding agency. Select your funding agency from the drop-down menu in the tool, fill in the text boxes in each section of the plan, export to rich text, and add your completed plan to your proposal.

By selecting LSU as your institution and logging in using your myLSU login and password, you can save your work and apply general institutional information. 

LSU also provides a general policy on data management that provides guidelines of what should be included in a DMP.

General Templates and Examples:

DMP examples and templates from various institutions across a wide range of disciplines:

Data Management Plan Examples by Discipline (University of Minnesota)

NSF Engineering Data Management Plan Template (University of Michigan)

Shorter Term Online/On-demand Storage - OneDrive

LSU provides all faculty 1 Terabyte of online storage through OneDrive (Office365). Data on OneDrive is private, but can be shared with collaborators at LSU or other institutions. A larger storage capacity using OneDrive can be provided upon request.

Longer Term Archiving - LSU Scholarly Repository 

LSU hosts an institutional repository using Digital Commons, powered by Elsevier. The repository collects, preserves, publishes and makes openly accessible the research and scholarship contributed by LSU faculty, staff, students, and units Research and scholarly archived materials can include articles, monographs, books, theses & dissertations, audio-visual presentations, working papers, technical reports, conference proceedings, special collections, data, and publicly funded research. Material that is published elsewhere (e.g., journals, federal open-access archives) can be linked to the repository  so that faculty can gather their materials without necessarily publishing them directly in the LSU Scholarly Repository .

The LSU Scholarly Repository  is part of a network of over 400 institutional repositories, through which researchers can discover LSU faculty scholarship and research. The repository also satisfies NSF and NIH requirements for permanent storage of project data and ancillary materials.

Data sets submitted to the LSU Scholarly Repository are reviewed by staff to ensure that data is in a format and structure that best facilitates long-term access, discovery, and reuse. Size limitations may prevent some data sets from being added to the LSU Scholarly Repository . For further information regarding current options, contact the institutional repository librarian via e-mail at ir@lsu.edu.

LSU Libraries can assign Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to items published in the LSU Scholarly Repository. Open-access items that have been published in other publications are not eligible for DOIs by LSU Libraries. Questions regarding DOIs should be directed to the Institutional Repository Librarian at ir@lsu.edu. 

The following boilerplate text can be used to describe LSU Digital Commons in your data management plan:

A long-term data sharing and preservation plan will be used to store and make publicly accessible the data beyond the life of the project. Data management for this project will be supported by the LSU Scholarly Repository, the institutional repository for LSU. This uses the Digital Commons software, powered by Elsevier, in order to disseminate and archive the scholarly output of the LSU community. The LSU Scholarly Repository provides full-text indexing in major search engines for discoverability of content and provides secure infrastructure for storage and preservation with multiple backups, cloud storage with Amazon Glacier, and a multi-tiered disaster recovery plan. The investigators will consult with the LSU Libraries to facilitate the ingest of data into the LSU Scholarly Repository and to ensure that appropriate descriptive metadata standards are in place for all datasets and their supplementary materials. The datasets will be published in the LSU Scholarly Repository for long-term preservation. This will provide it with unique, persistent URLs.

One-on-one Consultations

For consultation and feedback on your DMP, contact us. We will consult with you or point you to the right person, resource, or service on campus. 

Training

Creating a Data Management Plan

For faculty and researchers, we will provide an overview of the data management planning process. This workshop includes discussion and works through data management topics through group and paired activities.

Data Management for Graduate Students

Focused on core elements of data management, such as effective data storage options, sharing and reuse policies, metadata, ethical and legal considerations, and preservation of data, and internal and external resources. 

Contact us to arrange a training.

The Office of Research & Economic Development

LSU Research Policy on Data Management

Information Technology Services

ITS Security Data Classification