Commitment to open science

By mutual agreement, Sorbonne University, its research staff and doctoral students agree to respect a charter concerning open access to publications. By depositing the full text of any article in the open archive HAL at Sorbonne University as soon as it’s published and then referencing the author’s other types of publications, research staff and PhD students contribute to the open access dissemination of their publications. Sorbonne University supports them by facilitating the depositing of publications, by ensuring their long-term archiving and by training the University community in the best practices of open access.

The Sorbonne University Charter on open access to publications provides the following:

• An awareness of the academic community of the societal and scientific issues of open access and open science 
• Local transposition of national policies for the implementation of open access and the facilitation of the depositing and reporting of publications in the Sorbonne University HAL
• Supporting research staff and doctoral students in the publication process.
• The promotion of "bibliodiversity" in the spirit of the Jussieu Call. 

The research staff and doctoral students of Sorbonne University commit to:

• Act in favour of open science and open access to publications in the exercise of their various responsibilities 
• Check the adequacy of publishing contracts with the Sorbonne University's policy on open access.
• Privilege open access over a hybrid publication when an article is subject to publication charges (Article Processing Charges)
• Create and use IdHAL and ORCID identifiers that allow them to unambiguously identify themselves as authors of their publications and promote the visibility of their scientific production. 

Download the open access policy document, voted at the Research Commission of the Academic Council on 28 March 2019 

Open research data policy within the Sorbonne University Alliance

Since its creation, the Sorbonne University Alliance has chosen to be fully involved in the open science movement, allowing access to knowledge for all. With this in mind, it is committed to opening up the results of the research produced within its institutions and promoting their dissemination, in order to share with citizens the fruits of their contribution to public research and to develop a trustworthy science.
Taking up for itself the terms of the Sorbonne declaration on research data rights of 27 January 20201 , the Sorbonne University Alliance recalls that :

• Access to and sharing of data enables the development of new knowledge and accelerates discoveries for the benefit of society, while promoting economic development and employment;
• It must be possible to share and re-use research data freely.

Download the Sorbonne Declaration on Research Data Rights.

The International Research Data Rights Summit, was held at Sorbonne University on Monday, January 27, 2020. This initiative brought together intensive research universities from nine major networks in major regions of the world. It was an opportunity to sign the "Declaration of the Sorbonne" on the research data rights. This text energetically affirms the universities' willingness to share their data while firmly calling on governments to adopt a clear legal framework to regulate this sharing and to provide the means to put it in place.

The Sorbonne University Library and the Doctoral Education Institute are committed to implementing the systematic training of scientific personnel, especially young researchers, in Open Science.

Training in Open Science issues

The objective of these modules is to understand how to use the HAL Sorbonne University portal to deposit works as soon as they are published. In practice, participants are trained in the legal conditions of the open access repository and in the use of the portal to implement this repository. The different aspects of the HAL are presented: authors' affiliations, interactions with PubMed, PubMed Central, arXiV and OpenAIRE, complementary tools (IdHAL, CV HAL, AureHAL), among others.

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Training in the depositing of publications in HAL

The objective of these modules is to understand how to use the HAL Sorbonne Université portal to deposit works as soon as they are published. In practice, participants are trained in the legal conditions of the open access repository and in the use of the portal to implement this repository. The different aspects of the HAL are presented: authors' affiliations, interactions with PubMed, PubMed Central, arXiV and OpenAIRE, complementary tools (IdHAL, CV HAL, AureHAL), among others.

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Support in writing a Data Management Plan (DMP)

The library offers personalized support to write a data management plan. Sessions can be organized on request for a laboratory. Individual meetings, face-to-face or remotely, can also be scheduled to help draft the three versions of a DMP. The library administers the OPIDoR DMP tool, which can be used to write team DMPs, and can make presentations.

Since its creation, the Sorbonne University Alliance has chosen to be fully involved in the open science movement, allowing access to knowledge for all. With this in mind, it is committed to opening up the results of the research produced within its institutions and promoting their dissemination, in order to share with citizens the fruits of their contribution to public research and to develop a trustworthy science.

Download the text presented during the Research Commission on June 24, 2021:

Policy for promoting open science actions in the internal evaluation of research

Agreement on the reform of research evaluation

In 2022, Sorbonne University signed the agreement on the reform of research evaluation which lists ten commitments to establish a common policy bringing together universities, research centres and institutes, evaluation agencies as well as public and private research funders.

Read the press release