Data Management, Your Grant, and MorphoBank 
If your grant involves the generation of morphological data matrices and/or 2D or 3D images that you would like to deposit as part of your publication, then MorphoBank can work with you to add text and budget to your grant proposal. Such contributions from the community help to sustain MorphoBank as an important scientific resource.
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We include some sample text below that can be modified as needed and used in your Data Management Plan. You may also wish to cite Cranston et al. 2014 Best Practices for Data Sharing in Phylogenetic Research. PLoS Currents. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4073804/ This paper provides important language on 'best practices' for morphological phylogenetics and emphasizes the importance of planning for data management at the start, not the end, of a research project.
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MorphoBank (www.morphobank.org) is an open access database and curation platform that makes morphological data matrices that are linked to peer-reviewed publications easily discoverable and freely available for reuse. MorphoBank mints DOIs as the persistent digital identifiers at both the Project and Matrix level. DOIs are issued at the time of project publication and the projects themselves link back to the originating publication. MorphoBank's data and media are backed up on a weekly basis. MorphoBank strongly encourages grant funded users at institutions that are not currently supporting MorphoBank through membership fees to include funding in their grant proposals to help ensure safe, secure, and free distribution of these data for future researchers. Funds requested in this proposal were calculated in collaboration with MorphoBank staff. |
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