The changing world of scholarly communication and the emerging new wave of ‘Open Science’ or ‘Open Research’ has brought to light a number of controversial and hotly debated topics. Evidence-based rational debate is regularly drowned out by misinformed or exaggerated rhetoric, which does not benefit the evolving system of scholarly communication. This article aims to provide a baseline evidence framework for ten of the most contested topics, in order to help frame and move forward discussions, practices, and policies. We address issues around preprints and scooping, the practice of copyright transfer, the function of peer review, predatory publishers, and the legitimacy of ‘global’ databases. These arguments and data will be a powerful tool against misinformation across wider academic research, policy and practice, and will inform changes within the rapidly evolving scholarly publishing system.

In this article we have presented an example that allows showing the design and implementation details of the module gFipaOS that permit incorporate to the simulator of multiagents systems on GALATEA some platforms of distributed agents. In this module GALATEA's agents management is based on the multiagent communication standard called FIPA (Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents). The model represents a Patio-like world which changes because agents change it and also due to natural events (food appears). The model is implemented on a platform that distributed agents across several computing hosts.

This paper aims to show a multi-agent geosimulation for a water distribution system that has been designed and developed according to the conceptual and methodological guidelines that dictates a theoretical reference model presented in [1]. The domain of geosimulación system is in the field of Disaster Management and Risk Reduction, The system is oriented to public service and simulates the occurrence of changes in the dynamics of rain on a particular geography that could mean periods of drought. The construction of the system is a planned process of reuse of complete and entire architectures. For this purpose have been used for the construction of the experimental framework, functional simulation system as EpaNet and GALATEA, GIS such as gvSIG, and system integration architectures for distributed simulation such as HLA.