Tuuli project: accelerating data management planning in Finnish research organisations

Abstract

Many research funders have requirements for data sharing and data management plans (DMP). DMP tools are services built to help researchers to create data management plans fitting their needs and based on funder and/or organisation guidelines. Project Tuuli (2015–2017) has provided DMPTuuli, a data management planning tool for Finnish researchers and research organisations offering DMP templates and guidance. In this paper we describe how project has helped both Finnish researchers and research organisations adopt research data management best practices. As a result of the project we have also created a national Tuuli network. With growing competence and collaboration of the network, the project has reached most of its goals. The project has also actively promoted DMP support and training in Finnish research organisations.

Institutional Support for Data Management Plans: Five Case Studies

“…Libraries are reported as one of the services where researchers can ask for RDM support [ 1 , 5 , 6 , 23 ]. Although libraries are still in the early stages of connecting to RDM infrastructures and need staff with RDM skills, this represents an expansion of their traditional mission.…”

“…Another source of support are the IT departments at universities and research centres. Partnerships between libraries and other hired support teams have become common and their goal is to develop new services to inform, train and support researchers [ 1 , 5 , 6 , 21 ]. At the University of Melbourne, for example, there is a digital scholarship program [ 8 ], while Cornell University implemented the Research Data Management Service [ 13 ], the University of Glasgow [ 7 , 15 ] developed a system for contacting researchers with approved projects and controlling requests for RDM support with automatically generated email if a DMP is required, and the University of Sydney organised eResearchUnit 3 that sends researchers a pre-filled DMP template, based on the abstract of the funded grant application.…”

Open access to research artifacts: Implementing the next generation data management plan

“…The DataONE project and the California Digital Library have created tools and many university libraries provide services in the creation of Data Management Plans for their researchers (Shreeves, ). There are DMP tool efforts in Europe, for example DMP Online (Sallans & Donnelly, ) and the DMPTuuli project in Finland (Ahokas, Kuusniemi, & Friman, ). These efforts, to our knowledge, do not use controlled vocabularies nor structured information in a template form, although in some cases the user can download and complete a template on their own.…”