ANNOUNCE Dynamica Digital Archive (1975- 1984) (SD6499)

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Posted by  System Dynamics Society <sds at csc.albany.edu>

There is a new section of the System Dynamics Society web-site that
includes digitised versions of all the papers published in the journal
Dynamica, the precursor to the Society's journal, the System Dynamics
Review. At an informal meeting at the 2005 Boston conference of the three
presidents (Immediate Past President, President Elect, and myself as the
then serving President), it was recognised that Dynamica comprised an
important repository of early System Dynamics papers. Most people know
someone who knows someone with a set of issues, and copies of all issues
were lodged with the British libraries of record, but it was decided that
all Society members and researchers in the field should be able to access
easily the full set. That facility is now in place, and goes a long way to
completing the 'digital paper trail' of System Dynamics research and
publication.

Dynamica essentially started as a house journal for the System Dynamics
Group at Bradford University, initially publishing work by Bradford
people, visitors to the group, research collaborators and other
professional acquaintances, but soon started attracting submissions from
people outside this network.  This demonstrated the need for a dedicated,
open access journal, which Dynamica quickly became. It was a critical move
that it should morph into the System Dynamics Review as the official
journal of the Society when it was formed in the 1980s.

In its time, Dynamica published a number of important papers and
eventually was taken by quite a wide international subscribership; it is
important and timely that these are now available in their full, original
versions to all researchers and practitioners.

It is very important that we acknowledge the contribution of the editors
and supporters who worked to develop the original journal, to the
University of Bradford for encouraging and underwriting the venture. It is
equally important that we appreciate all those who have volunteered much
of time to the digitisation project.  Finally, we must be grateful to the
University of Bradford, as copyright holder, for the generosity in
permitting us to make access to this valuable literature base freely
available through our web-site.

Graham W. Winch
Founding Editor, Dynamica
Executive Editor, System Dynamics Review (1995-2001)
Posted by  System Dynamics Society <sds at csc.albany.edu>
posting date  Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:29:57 -0400 (EDT)