RofASSS rapidly publishes comments in a citable format without fees or a paywall – it aims to promote academic discussion on all aspects of social simulation

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Recent Contributions:

• Yes, but what did they actually do? Review of: Jill Lepore (2020) “If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future” by Nick Gotts
• Why we are failing at connecting opinion dynamics to the empirical world by Dino Carpentras
• ESSA@work: Reflections and looking ahead by Kavin Narasimhan, Silvia Leoni, Katharina Luckner, Dino Carpentras, and Natalie Davis

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How to access content

• Here, using the various links on the content bar (either to the left or below the page depending on your device), e.g.:
  • The 10 most recent contributions
  • A chronological list of all contributions
• As posts on a FaceBook page: https://facebook.com/RofASSS
• On twitter at: @RofASSS
• Via an RSS feed: https://rofasss.org/feed/ (so you can subscribe using a reader or app)
• By email – use the widget in the content bar to get email notifications (use the same widget to stop following)

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What RofASSS Publishes

Suitable material includes (but is not limited to):

• A summary/review of a model or paper
• An idea you have had
• A question you would like the community to answer
• An issue you want to bring to the attention of others
• Book reviews (of new or older books)
• Reports of model reproductions
• New social simulation tools

Items that have an established home elsewhere (mature papers, conference/job announcements or simulations) should be submitted there.  For more information about submission and ideas for things to submit, see the submission page.

Advantages of Submitting to RofASSS

• Rapid publication – submissions often get published within 48 hours
• Wide dissemination – over 1000 readers are subscribed to RofASSS content via a variety of methods (see above)
• Citable – contributions are in a format that can be (and are) cited in other people’s papers (for examples see here)
• Early dissemination – suitable for getting out an idea or issue without having to write a full paper about it, so (a) there is dated proof that the idea was yours and (b) to get feedback and discussion
• Wide range of kinds of contribution – as long as it is relevant to social simulation and promotes debate, the content can be a wide range of things: a summary of a paper, a response to a paper you have read, an interview, a question you would like answered, a challenge to others, an issue that needs raising, a report on a conference,  etc.
• Open Access – anyone with a browser can read contributions, there is no paywall. You can reuse content according to the CC BY-ND licence, including archiving copies or having a copy on your website.
• Permanency – we are in the process of archiving pdf versions of contributions to CERN’s Zenodo archive, so they will persist even if this website eventually closes
• Free – we do not ask for fees of any kind; RofASSS is produced by the effort of those involved

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For more about RofASSS see the About page.