Welcome to this online course on data management and data management plans given by the Library of Science!

The course provides instructions and practical advice that will help you when you create a data management plan (DMP) for your research project. The focus of the course is on the template for data management plans provided in DMPRoadmap, the local system for data management plans at Lund University. The template follows the guidelines for data management plans developed by Science Europe (Note that DMPRoadmap has been replaced by DMPonline at Lund university, but the two systems are very similar and the information in the videos are still relevant especially if you use the same template).

The course is given online and consists of a number of short instruction videos with a total length of 1 hour and 40 minutes. The videos are created and narrated by Kurt Mattsson (kurt.mattsson@science.lu.se) and Anja Zimmerman (anja.zimmerman@science.lu.se), librarians at the Library of Science. However, if you have questions about data management and data management plans, please contact Thomas Tengelin Nyström (thomas.tengelin_nystrom@science.lu.se).

The first time you take the course, we recommend that you go through all of the modules in order. After you have finished the course, you will still have access to all of the course content and you are free to go back and repeat any part of the course you like.

Start the course

After the course

If you have taken the course but still have unanswered questions, the Library of Science offers data management support.

Data management support at the Library of Science

Course overview with direct links to course modules

Course content

Why is it important to have a data management plan?

How exhaustive does a data management plan need to be?

Getting started with DMP Roadmap

Section 1 in DMP Roadmap: Data description

Section 2 in DMP Roadmap: Documentation and data quality

Section 3 in DMP Roadmap: Storage and backup

Section 4 in DMP Roadmap: Legal and ethical requirements

Section 5 in DMP Roadmap: Data sharing and long-term preservation

Section 6 in DMP Roadmap: Responsibilities and resources

Workshops on creating data management plans

Data management support