ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the requirements for data management plans (DMPs) in the United States and other countries, and distills a list of desiderata for DMPs that support research reproducibility, providing the reader a list of contents from which a DMP can be written or evaluated. DMPs have been variously named and implemented throughout the history of data management. The chapter adopts the goals of data management: to assure that data are capable of supporting the analysis, to assure that all operations performed on data are traceable and add a third based on widespread support and even pressure for data sharing, and to facilitate use of data by people other than those involved in their original collection, management, and analysis. A list of contents for DMPs that support traceability and research reproducibility was provided and can be used as a checklist from which a DMP can be written or evaluated.
