The machine learning community has been pushing for open access for quite awhile. In 2001, the 40 editors of Machine Learning (some of whom I was quite proud t

The machine learning community has been pushing for open access for quite awhile. In 2001, the 40 editors of Machine Learning (some of whom I was quite proud to know), resigned to start the JMLR with this letter: http://www.sigir.org/forum/F2001/sigirFall01Letters.html http://www.sigir.org/forum/F2001/sigirFall01Letters.html . Note also their citation of the similar actions taken by the editors of Logic Programming in 1999. EDIT: btw, the JMLR is at http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/ http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/ . moar edit: http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/mloss/ http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/mloss/ for relevant open source code.