Creating a DMP, and adhering to it, results in the following benefits:
- It ensures researchers meet funder requirements
- It enables researchers to find and understand the data
- It ensures continuity should project staff leave, or new researchers join the project
- It avoids unnecessary duplication (no recollecting or reworking of data)
- It ensures research is more visible, citable, and has greater impact
- The data underlying publications are maintained, allowing for validation of results
- Publishers and research funders may require that researchers share their data so it is worth investingtime to plan for effective data management
- Data sharing leads to more collaboration and advances research
- It assists researchers in adhering to the FAIR data principles (Data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable)
