The French university of the Sorbonne caused an earthquake in world science on December 8, when it announced that it was canceling its subscription to the Web of Science , a ubiquitous database from the London multinational Clarivate that is used around the world to evaluate scientists and grant them, or not, promotions and funding. Hundreds of millions of euros of public money are distributed based on this data from private platforms, especially the Web of Science and Scopus , a similar tool from the Dutch publisher Elsevier. The Sorbonne and another fifty organizations, including the Spanish Higher Scientific Research Council (CSIC), presented this Tuesday the Barcelona Declaration , an initiative to radically transform this system and make it open.