DMPTool Service Update: July-September 2013

Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities

• Development status: You can follow our progress on the wiki at: https://bitbucket.org/dmptool/main/wiki/DMPTool2Project.
• DMPTool webinar series: We held 3 webinars in July and 2 in August, with guest speakers:
  • Joan Starr (CDL) on promoting institutional services with the DMPTool;
  • Lisa Federer (UCLA) on health sciences and data management;
  • Miriam Posner (UCLA) on digital humanities and the DMPTool;
  • Jake Carlson (Purdue) on data curation profiles and the DMPTool.

  The slides and recordings, as well as the schedule of upcoming webinars, are available here:
  http://blog.dmptool.org/webinar-series/.

• We added support for Institute of Education Sciences grants (US Dept of Education) and the Joint Fire Science Program.
• There were over 700 data management plans created in July-September, and 834 new users. There are a total of over 6,500 registered users from over 800 institutions, who have created over 5,500 data management plans.
• Presentations on the new developments in the DMPTool will be given at the HubZero Conference at Purdue in September and the Digital Library Federation Forum in Austin TX in November.
• UC use, 2011-present:

Contributing Organizations

There are now 101 participating institutions that have either configured their campus single-signon or customized the DMPTool for their users. There are participating organizations in 38 states and the District of Columbia; California leads all states with 19 participating organizations. A map of all participating organizations is available here: http://bit.ly/L85sKj.

DMPTool Service Description

The Data Management Plan Tool (DMPTool) provides an easy to use interface that:

• Helps users create ready-to-use data management plans for specific funding agencies
• Meets funder requirements for data management plans
• Provides step-by-step instructions and guidance for how to manage data
• Provides information about resources and services available at your institution to help fulfill the data management requirements of your grant

DMPTool Service Managers

• Perry Willett perry.willett@ucop.edu
• Carly Strasser carly.strasser@ucop.edu
• Trisha Cruse patricia.cruse@ucop.edu

Please send any questions or general correspondence to uc3@ucop.edu. Note that campus library contacts have been embedded in the DMPTool and campus users will be directed to a local library contact.

DMPTool Training Materials, Guides, FAQs and Webinars

Help Guide: (https://dmp.cdlib.org/help/guide).

Service Monitoring and Availability

Check CDL’s system status page at http://www.cdlib.org/contact/system.html.