First Monday is one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. Since its start in May 1996, First Monday has published 860 papers in 137 issues; these papers were written by 1,040 different authors.

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.