Data Management Plan Consultations
Offered by: Concordia Library
- Krista Alexander, Science Librarian
- Susie Breier, Subject Libarian
- Michael Groenendyk, Digital Scholarship Librarian
- Format: Consultation
- Time: 60 min
- Stage: Developing an idea
- Pathway: Academic scholarship
- data management
- grants
- open science
- research planning
Your data will out-live your grant. Plan for storage, access, and reuse in ways that support funding success and long-term impact.
Why this
Preparing a Data Management Plan (DMP) for a grant or award. This one-on-one consultation with a librarian helps you answer your specific DMP questions, understand the DMP Assistant tool, and choose templates aligned with your research data. The service supports you in your creation and writing of a strong, funder-ready DMP.
Relevance for impact
These consultations support research impact by strengthening data readiness and stewardship at the start of a project. By helping researchers plan for data storage, access, and reuse, they enable research outputs to be preserved, shared, and taken up beyond the life of a grant, supporting open science and long-term impact.
Who it’s for
Researchers and research teams preparing funding applications that require a Data Management Plan or simply want help in managing their research data.
What you’ll learn / outcomes
- How to structure a DMP that meets funder requirements
- How to use the DMP Assistant tool effectively
- Which DMP templates best fit your research data
- How to address issues like storage, documentation, ethics, access, retention, and preservation
- How good data management supports long-term impact, sharing, and reuse
Format
- One-on-one consultation (60 minutes)
- Online
- Flexible for individuals or full research teams
- On-demand scheduling.
What to bring
Before the meeting (ideally at least a week prior to the meeting date), researchers should share:
- A draft DMP and/or a detailed research description with the type of data to be collected
- Specific questions wanting to be addressed
Materials provided
- Concordia Library’s Research Data Management Guide
- Annotated version of draft DMP with comments and suggestions.
Service provider
The Library’s Research Data Management (RDM) Team is composed of the GIS and Data Services Librarian and other librarians with knowledge in various aspects of RDM such as the writing of Data Management Plans, data documentation and data deposit. The DMP consultations are currently offered on a rotating basis between the following librarians.
Krista Alexander
- Krista is a Science Librarian at Concordia University, and a member of the Library’s Research Data Management team.
Susie Breier
- Susie is a Subject Librarian for several social sciences disciplines at Concordia, and a member of the Library's Research Data Management team.
Michael Groenendyk
- Michael is a Digital Scholarship Librarian and Business Librarian at Concordia University Library, supporting research data management and digital scholarship projects across campus.