Data rules - OK?

Paul Ayris (Pro-Vice-Provost, UCL Library Services) writes about the Sorbonne Declaration on research data management and research data rights. January 2020 saw a number of global university networks assemble in Paris under the chairmanship of LERU (League of European Research Universities). The international Research Data Rights Summit was dedicated to a discussion of Open Data and national/regional legislative frameworks to support research data management, research data being the building blocks on which publications (such as journal articles) can be based. The meeting was called under the aegis of the Sorbonne University, the University of Amsterdam and UCL (University College London). Following intensive discussion, 8 global university networks signed the Sorbonne Declaration on research data management and research data rights. These networks are: the Association of American Universities (AAU) , the Coordination of French Research-Intensive Universities (CURIF) , the German U15 , the Group of Eight (Go8) Australia, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) , RU11 Japan , the Russell Group (UK), and the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities. This Data Summit was unprecedented in its scale, with networks representing more than 160 of the main research-intensive universities in the world actively involved.