The Sorbonne Declaration on Research Data Rights

"Indeed, the Sorbonne Declaration echoes other open scholarship policies in calling for integrating data management into standard research workflows and calls for the development of infrastructure and funding to enable it. Quoting researchers from Go8 institutions, Ross notes that, as a statement developed by influential research organizations around the world, the Declaration has the potential to lead to significant change in countries with “fragmented” open data policies, as well as those with more developed ones (2020a). He cites Canada’s Digital Research Infrastructure Strategy as an example of a well-developed policy and suggests that the Declaration is an important policy to keep in mind as the details of Canada’s DRI funding are decided. Canada’s recently released Roadmap for Open Science also emphasizes the need for data to be “open by design and by default,” and to follow FAIR principles (Government of Canada 2020).

As discussed in “The Review, Promotion, and Tenure Project at the ScholCommLab,” institutional policies that do not recognize or reward open scholarship are widely recognized as a barrier to cultural change. In acknowledgement of this, and as a way of encouraging a necessary cultural shift, the Declaration also includes a commitment to working towards changing these policies...."