Subject & Course Guides: SACNAS Graduate School & Fellowship Application Resources: Data Management

DATA MANAGEMENT PLAN TOOLS

DMPTool
A web-based tool containing data management plan requirements and templates for funding agencies like NSF and NIH. Draft and share draft with collaborators; export completed plans to multiple formats. Sign in using Option 1 and search for University of Kansas and Iowa State University. Log in with your university credentials.
DMPonline (Digital Curation Centre, UK)
A web-based tool containing data management plan templates for most UK and some US funding agencies. You must create an individual account to use this tool.

QUICK REFERENCE

Basic Data Management Practices
These handouts provide some basic data management practices for organizing any type of file. Use them to keep our application materials organized.

DATA MANAGEMENT 101

Data management doesn't have to be hard! Here are three easy steps to improve your data management.

1. Follow the 3-2-1 rule.

3 copies of your files
2 copies can be onsite (e.g. computer and external hard drive)
1 copy must be offsite (e.g. cloud backup service or located elsewhere)

2. Name things carefully not carelessly.

Include information on the who, what, why, or how in file and folder names. This will help you and others be able to quickly identify your files. One of the easiest ways to do this is to choose 2 or 3 important attributes and string them together. Below are two examples. The first only contains one attribute (content) and the second contains three (year, class, content) and is much more useful.

Final.docx vs. 2019_BIO211_Final.docx

3. Save for the future!

Can you open the files you created today 1-year from now? In 3-years? How about after graduation? If you are using special (or expensive) software programs then there's a high chance that the file formats are proprietary - i.e. can only be used by that special (or expensive) software. Since you'll probably want to open your files later it's a good idea to export them to open and/or very common file formats. Look for "save as" and "export" options when saving!

KU LIBRARIES DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES

Research Data Management
This is the home page for KU Libraries research data management resources and services.

Research Data Management
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Check out this LibGuide by Jamene Brookes-Kieffer, Data Services Librarian, at KU Libraries. You might find the tab on data management planning
especially helpful.

IOWA STATE LIBRARY RESEARCH DATA SERVICES

Research Data Services
This is the landing page for the Iowa State Libraries research data services.
Data Management Plan (DMP) Guide
Check out the LibGuide by Megan O'Donnell, Data Services Librarian / EEOB, NREM, ENTO and Environment Librarian at Iowa State. It is an introduction to DMPs and data management planning.