How Do I Manage Research Data at Penn State College of Medicine?

  Several guides are available to help manage research data.  A few are listed below.

• DMP Tool - Helps users create a generic NSF data management plan
  • allows login to PSU institutional account
  • Penn State DMP Tool boilerplate language

• Data Management Plan Tutorial from Penn State
• ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) information on data management

  DataOne Best Practices Primer

• Excellent resource for beginners

  ICPSR. “Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving: Best Practice throughout the Data Life Cycle”. 5th Edition. 2012.  

• Although ICPSR is an organization for social science research, much of the information in this document applies to all aspects of data management.
• PSU is a member of ICPSR