Data Management Plans: Support package for Norwegian higher education libraries

Archiving FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) research data builds on good data managment practices already from project start. Researchers meet requirements for writing Data Managment Plans (DMP) to support good data management routines and prepare for archiving of FAIR research data for reuse in research and innovation. Helpful guidance is essential to ensure that DMP writing is not perceived as an administrative burden, but as a useful and research-related process.

The project Data Management Plans: Support package for Norwegian higher education libraries created comprehensive resources to support both researchers and staff in research support roles. It thereby followed up on the recommendations from a collaborative DMP project by the University libraries in Bergen, Oslo, Trondheim and Tromsø (Report published in December 2022: UB-BOTT-samarbeid om datahåndteringsplaner: kartlegging og anbefalinger).

Resources

In November 2024, the developed resources were launched: plan.research-data.no
An editorial team maintaining and improving these resources.

• Information about DMPs, support services, requirements
• Domain-agnostic DMP questionnaire implemented in the DMP tool Data Stewardship Wizard
• Accompanying information resources for researchers
• Guiding questions for data managment considerations ahead of a new project (pre-award)
• Background knowledge for staff in supporting roles
• Overview about project presentations and results

Would you like to contribute?

We welcome testers of the DMP questionnaire and invite particularly researchers from disciplines with specific needs to get in touch.

All text resources are available under an open license and are maintained through an open contribution approach. We invite the research data community to contribute to the further development of the resources.

Acknowledgement

The one-year project is a collaboration between the University of Bergen, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the University of Oslo, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, PhD-On-Track and ELIXIR Norway. It is supported by the National Library of Norway starting October 2023: Project description in the project database of the National Library of Norway (in Norwegian).

Contributors: Jenny Ostrop (UiB), Illimar Rekand (UiB), Ingrid Heggland (NTNU), Svein Høier (NTNU), Lisbeth Jahren (NTNU), Live Håndlykken Kvale (UiO), Leif Longva (UiT), Ida Benedicte Juhasz (UiB, PhD-On-Track), Korbinian Bösl (UiB, ELIXIR Norway)

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UiB, NTNU, UiO, UiT, PhD-On-Track, ELIXIR-NO