****Apologies for cross-posting****

The US DMPTool has now been launched: https://dmp.cdlib.org/ .

The tool allows researchers to input the content they would like to include in a data management plan and then generates that plan for them. 

From the press release http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/26584 
"The DMPTool is open source, freely available and easily configurable to reflect an institution's local policies and information. Users of the DMPTool can view sample plans, preview funder requirements and view the latest changes to their plans. It permits the user to create an editable document for submission to a funding agency and can accommodate different versions as funding requirements change. Not only can researchers use the tool to generate plans compliant to funder requirements, but institutions also can use the tool to present information and policies relevant to data management and to foster collaboration among faculty, the institutional libraries, contracts and grants offices, and academic computing."

Congratulations to all the institutions involved: University of California Curation Center (UC3<http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/>) at the California Digital Library<http://www.cdlib.org/>; UCLA Library<http://www.library.ucla.edu/>; UC San Diego Libraries<http://libraries.ucsd.edu/>; Smithsonian Institution<http://www.si.edu/>; University of Virginia Library<http://www.lib.virginia.edu/>; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<http://illinois.edu/>; DataONE<http://www.dataone.org/>; and the United Kingdom's Digital Curation Centre<http://www.dcc.ac.uk/>.

--Patricia


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Patricia Hswe
Digital Collections Curator, MSLIS, PhD

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