DMPonline

Research funders and organisations increasingly require data management plans, both during the bid-preparation stage and after funding has been secured.

DMPonline is the DCC's data management planning tool. It provides tailored guidance and examples to help researchers write data management plans.

The tool includes a number of templates for funders in the UK and overseas so researchers can write DMPs according to the specific requirements they need to meet. It can also be customised by institutions so they can add their own templates and guidance.

A screencast provides an overview of how the tool works.

Try the tool for yourself at http://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk

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All our code is open and available for you to redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License.

Customising DMPonline

Organisations are able to customise DMPonline to add templates, provide tailored guidance for their researchers or give examples and suggested answers. If you would like to customise the tool, contact us to request admin access for your organisation.

You may also like to consult the following guidance to help you customise DMPonline:

• Training on customing DMPonline
  Slides and handouts from a recent 'Advanced DMPonline' workshop
• Guidelines on how to customise DMPonline for your institution [PDF]
  Some general pointers and examples to help you get started
• Customising DMPonline [video]
  A webinar explaining the options available for customisation
• Webinar on the admin interface [video]
  A short video demonstration of how to use the admin interface.
• Using the DMPonline admin interface: a guide to customising the tool [PDF] [editable Word document version]
  A guide with screenshots to walk through the process of adding templates and guidance via the admin interface. This guide also includes a full list of themes used in DMPonline to help you write guidance to be applied across all templates.
• DMP themes
  A summary of the themes used in DMPonline and where they appear in different funder templates
• Proposed revisions to DMP themes (September 2016)
  A shortened list of themes put out for community consultation in September 2016
• Final revised set of DMP themes (December 2016)
  These will be implemented in the DMPonline and DMPTool platforms in 2017. See details in the accompanying blog post.