An efficient journal (Journal of Machine Learning Research) | Stuart Shieber | March 6th, 2012 | The Occasional Pamphlet

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Summary:

"Aficionados of open access should know about the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), an open-access journal in my own research field of artificial intelligence, a subfield of computer science concerned with the computational implementation and understanding of behaviors that in humans are considered intelligent. The journal became the topic of some dispute in a conversation that took place a few months ago in the comment stream of the Scholarly Kitchen blog between computer science professor Yann LeCun and scholarly journal publisher Kent Anderson, with LeCun stating that “The best publications in my field are not only open access, but completely free to the readers and to the authors.” He used JMLR as the exemplar. Anderson expressed incredulity: 'I’m not entirely clear how JMLR is supported, but there is financial and infrastructure support going on, most likely from MIT.'...

How do I know all this about JMLR? Because (full disclosure alert) I am Microtome Publishing. Microtome is a sole proprietorship providing “publishing services in support of open access to the scholarly literature.” I’ve worked with JMLR for many years now, and consequently have gained a good understanding of all aspects of its operations and of the operations of a subscription-based print journal as well. I don’t pretend to have all of the knowledge of a professional publisher by any means. On the other hand, I don’t believe in fairies...."

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http://blogs.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-journal/

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Date tagged:

08/03/2018, 16:11

Date published:

08/03/2018, 12:12