Sorbonne Université
Overview
Sorbonne Université is one of France’s largest research-intensive universities, formed in 2018 through the merger of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and Pierre et Marie Curie University (UPMC / Paris VI), with 55,000+ students and 6,000+ researchers as of 2024. It holds a formalised open science policy commitment structured across open access, research assessment reform, data management, and research integrity.
Open Science Policy
Sorbonne Université has one of the most formalised open science commitments among French universities, built across four areas.
Open access
The commitment was formalised in 2019 with the Sorbonne University Charter for Open Access to Publications, requiring deposit of all publications in the HAL Sorbonne University portal. By early 2023, the university had passed 100,000 full-text articles deposited in HAL-Sorbonne, supported by dedicated staff in the Publications and Open Access department of the Sorbonne University Library. Sorbonne Université was a co-signatory of the Appel de Jussieu in 2017, calling for diamond open access publishing models.
Research assessment reform
In February 2021, Sorbonne Université adopted an internal policy for promoting open science in the evaluation of research, explicitly asking that open access publication, open data, and other open science actions be weighted in internal assessments alongside content quality. Building on this, the university signed DORA in April 2022 and CoARA in November 2022.
Research data management
Institutional DMP support is provided via OPIDoR, with Recherche Data Gouv recommended for data deposit. The Sorbonne University Library offers training on DMPs, data sharing practices, and FAIR principles.
Research integrity
Sorbonne Université aligns with the ECoC (ALLEA European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity) and maintains designated referents for scientific integrity, ethics, and open science acting in a coordinated manner.
Governance and research structures
Sorbonne Université contributes academic staff positions, doctoral programme infrastructure, and clinical research context through its Faculty of Medicine at Pitié-Salpêtrière. Institut de Myologie, housed at Pitié-Salpêtrière, is a joint Inserm unit specialising in neuromuscular diseases and one of Sorbonne’s principal neuroscience-adjacent research structures. Clinical research is organised through the APHP.Sorbonne Université partnership with AP-HP. Multiple joint CNRS/Inserm UMR research units are hosted across Sorbonne campuses, spanning neuroscience, genetics, and translational medicine, each operating under the open science policies of its supervising bodies (CNRS Open Science and Inserm Open Science).
Connections
- relatedTo: DORA (Sorbonne Université signed DORA in April 2022)
- relatedTo: CoARA (Sorbonne Université signed CoARA in November 2022)
- relatedTo: ECoC (Sorbonne Université aligns its research-integrity framework with the ALLEA European Code of Conduct)
Resources
- https://www.sorbonne-universite.fr
- https://www.sorbonne-universite.fr/recherche-et-innovation/lengagement-pour-la-science-ouverte (open science policy)
- https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr (HAL-Sorbonne portal)