Create a Data Management Plan
A data management plan (DMP) is intended to support you as researchers and PhD students during the research process and ensure that your research and data management practises follow relevant laws and regulations. Stockholm University offers the tool DMPonline to create, share, and update digital data management plans.
Many research funders require that you write a data management for your research project. You should be aware of and keep to any guidelines set up by your funder.
The Stockholm University Open Science Plan (link) recommends that a data management plan is created, updated and preserved for each research project.
DMPonline
In DMPonline, you find templates based on requirements from various research funders, such as the Swedish Research Council and Horizon Europe. A locally developed template (SU-VR) contains machine-readable, multiple-choice questions, which facilitates the entry of information and preservation of the data management plan
A data management plan is a "living" document that should be revised and kept up to date during the entire project. The tool is in English, but you can choose to write your plan in English or Swedish, as long as your funder does not require a certain language.
Instructions for using DMPonline
Follow the steps below to create your data management plan.
The first time you log in, you will need to create an account and connect it to your Stockholm University email and SU-login. Choose "Stockholm University" in the list of higher education institutions and fill in "Create Account". You retain access to your account and can easily change your affiliation and email in the future, in case you move institutions.
Log in
- Go to http://dmp.su.se/.
- Click on “Sign in with your institutional credentials”.
- Log in with your SU-ID and password.
Create a plan
- Click on “Create plans”.
- Fill in the project title.
- Enter the name of your funder (in English) to locate them in the drop-down menu, and choose said funder to create a plan that matches their requirements.
- If your funder does not appear in the drop-down menu or if they do not have specific requirements for DMPs, you can always use the Swedish Research Council template our locally developed SU-VR template. To use the SU-VR template, tick the box “No funder associated…”.
- Click on “Create plan”.
Fill in "Project details"
- Insert title, "project abstract", start and end date for the project, "funding status" and "grant number." ("ID" is autogenerated.)
- Click on "See the full list" under "Select Guidance" to choose guidance text for how to fill in the template at Stockholm University (or other higher education institutions). The Swedish Research Council (SRC) has its own guide for those who use the SRC's template in DMPonline.
- Click on “Save”.
Add any additional project contributors
- Under the tab "Contributors", Click on “Add contributor”.
- Insert name, e-mail, ORCID and affiliation. Also assign the project contributor a suitable role in the project.
- Click on “Save”.
Write your plan
- Click on “Write Plan”.
- Expand each section and answer the questions they contain. The questions will vary depending on your choice of template.
- Regularly click on “Save” as the system does not save entries automatically.
- You find guidance that you have chosen, and any comments made by project contributors, in the right-hand margin. Comments will not appear in the actual plan.
Resume or update a plan
- Plans that you create are shown under "My Dashboard". Click on a plan to resume editing.
- DMPonline lacks version control. If your funder requires you to save versions of your plan, you should regularly download and save a copy of your plan before updating it.
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Contact us for support
- E-mail opendata@su.se if you want us to assess your plan.
