Data Management Plans A Review

With increasing world-wide emphasis on providing access to research data, data management plans (DMPs) have emerged as the expected way for researchers to formalise and communicate their intentions to stakeholders, including to their funders. This review paper focuses on a thematic analysis and pres...

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Published inDESIDOC journal of library & information technology Vol. 39; no. 6; pp. 322 - 328
Main Authors Vitale, Cynthia Hudson, Moulaison Sandy, Heather
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dehli Defence Scientific Information & Documentation Centre 16.12.2019
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Data management
Empirical analysis
Government agencies
Human subjects
Information professionals
Information science
Information sharing
Institutional repositories
Interviews
Librarians
Libraries
Open access publishing
Open data
Research data management
Researchers
Scholarly communication
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Summary:With increasing world-wide emphasis on providing access to research data, data management plans (DMPs) have emerged as the expected way for researchers to formalise and communicate their intentions to stakeholders, including to their funders. This review paper focuses on a thematic analysis and presentation of empirical research on DMPs, a literature that is surprisingly limited, likely due to the young age of the field. Research shows that, despite the benefits associated with data sharing, DMPs have potential that is not being realised to the fullest. Researchers in scholarly communication and information science primarily have evaluated DMPs using text analysis methodologies, often supplementing them with surveys or interviews. Future study, especially in areas of machine-actionable DMPs is promising; such research is needed to further explore how DMPs can best be utilised to support data sharing.
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ISSN:0974-0643
0976-4658
DOI:10.14429/djlit.39.06.15086