AI Researchers Are Boycotting A New Journal Because It’s Not Open Access

"If scientific journals don’t make their articles available to everyone, we want nothing to do with them. That’s the gist of a petition signed by more than 2,000 artificial intelligence researchers publicized in a tweet on Saturday. Specifically, the scientists are boycotting a recently-announced journal, Nature Machine Intelligence, because it would trap the articles published there behind a paywall. Artificial intelligence research should be transparent and open to the community at large, argues Tom Dietterich of Oregon State University, the machine learning researcher who began the boycott, according to Retraction Watch...."