SASSI is a playful acronym meaning Serial Abstracts on Systems Science, International. It is reminiscent of the old Biological Abstracts (BA) for libraries worldwide. For generations of novice biologists, BA provided a quick look at the full span of all the peer-reviewed literature in the wide-range of biological specialties. With the:
- growth in recognition of the utility of a knowledge of systems sciences for solving an ever increasing number complex natural and human crisis problems
- greater recognition that systems thinking is at the opposite of the spectrum of systems awareness; and
- rapid growth in the importance of the systems literature based on the conventional science literature;