Data sharing Data sharing Data sharing is the practice of making data used for scholarly research available to other investigators. Replication has a long history in science. The motto of The Royal Society is 'Nullius in verba', translated "Take no man's word for it." Many funding agencies, institutions, and publication venues have policies regarding data sharing because transparency and openness are considered by many to be part of the scientific method. A number of funding agencies and science journals require authors of peer-reviewed papers to share any supplemental information (raw data, statistical methods or source code) necessary to understand, develop or reproduce
Terra nullius used. According to historian of ideas Andrew Fitzmaurice, "territorium nullius" and "terra nullius" were two different, albeit related, legal terms. He claims that "territorium nullius" was first used in a meeting of the Institut de Droit International in 1888 where the legal principles of the Berlin conference discussed and that "terra nullius" was introduced twenty years later during legal disputes over the polar regions. Historian Michael Connor on the other hand, argues that "territorium nullius" and "terra nullius" are the same thing. Both scholars are active in the Australian history wars debate. There is considerable debate among historians about how