NERC Data Management Plans
A mandatory, single page, Outline Data Management Plan (ODMP) will be required for all grant and fellowship applications submitted from 1 August 2012. The ODMP will identify data sets likely to be made available to NERC Data Centres for archiving and reuse at the end of the fellowship or grant.
Outline Data Management Plan guidance (118KB)
The ODMP will form the final page of the Case for Support for all schemes. The Case for Support for successful proposals will be made available to the NERC Environmental Data Centres and, where appropriate, used to draft, in collaboration with the Principal Investigator, a full Data Management Plan (DMP). This full DMP should be mutually agreed between the Data Centre and the Principal Investigator within three months of the start date of the grant.
Data Management Plan template (30KB)
A Data Value Checklist has been produced to facilitate writing the DMP. During the award, Investigators are required to offer the appropriate Data Centre a copy of any dataset generated, so that the data can be made available for other researchers.