Data Management Plan for UVic’s Groundwater Science and Sustainability Research Group

This Data Management Plan (DMP) is for the <a href="http://www.groundwaterscienceandsustainability.org/">Groundwater Science and Sustainability Research Group</a> at the University of Victoria whose mission is advancing scientific research and engaging with governments and organizations to secure water resources in British Columbia and around the world. <br><br> This plan can be modified for specific projects and uses language and inspiration from previous exemplar plans in <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/4062478"> ecohydrology</a> and <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/4701021">open science</a>. It helps us share more and make our lives easier by keeping our data organized and properly backed up so that we can:<br>
<ul><li>use data that we already have from previous projects;</li>
<li>share data within our group and with others;</li>
<li>back-up and archive data so that it will be useable by others in the future; and</li>
<li>be at the forefront of open science, data transparency and sharing</li>
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Our publicly shared data is centrally organized on the ‘<a href="http://www.groundwaterscienceandsustainability.org/data.html">data</a>’ or ‘<a href="http://www.groundwaterscienceandsustainability.org/publications.html">publications</a>’ pages of our group website. We are strongly committed to open science principles and practices by sharing:<br>
<ul><li>code through GitHub repositories;</li>
<li>datasets of published results through UVic’s Dataverse or figshare;</li>
<li>field data through community science portals such as anecdata;</li>
<li>preprints of submitted manuscripts through EarthArXiv;</li>
<li>plain language summaries though the Water Underground blog; and</li>
<li>promoting our research on social media.</li>
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