1. Exposing OMPs: a funder use case
RDA Exposing DMPs Working Group
2 April 2019
David Carr
Programme Manager - Open Research, The Wellcome Trust
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2. Wellcome’s policy on outputs management
policy on managing and sharing data, software and materials published in July 2017, replacing our previous long-standing policy on data management and sharing
requires our funded researchers to make research outputs available with as few restrictions as possible, in a manner that maximises health benefit
researchers are required to provide an outputs management plan (OMP) as part of their funding application, where their outputs are likely to hold value as a resource for other researchers
we commit to review OMPs and meet justified costs as an integral part of the funding decision

3. OMPs: untapped potential
At present, OMPs are unstructured (free text), static and not made public
This severely limits their value:
for us as a funder – in tracking and monitoring compliance with our policy requirements
for our grantholders – in terms of using plans as their research proceeds
for research users – for whom the plan might signpost outputs of potential interest

4. Compliance monitoring – current approach
In our policy, we commit to check at end-of-grant the extent to which outputs have been managed and shared in line with our requirements
OMPs are collected as a free text field on our application form within our grants system (Grant Tracker)
Wellcome now collects outputs data from our grant- holders via ResearchFish
Compliance checking involves manually comparing the OMP with outputs information fields extracted from ResearchFish

5. Maximising the potential of OMPs
we would ideally like OMPs to be:
structured
dynamic and updateable
publicly exposed
integrated with other systems
machine-actionable
initial plans to take forward a voluntary pilot on hold, but remain keen to take forward later in 2019
want to work with other funders and broader RDA community to maximise value of DMPs/OMPs
Dr Jonathan Clarke, Wellcome Images