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AI Researchers Revolt Against a New Paywalled Nature Journal (oregonstate.edu)
More than 2,000 researchers, including several employees of Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Netflix and other companies, have signed an open letter to revolt against Nature Machine Intelligence, a proposed new paywalled (closed-access) journal from Nature Publishing Group. The researchers said they won't "submit to, review, or edit" anything for the new publication. Nature Publishing Group has responded to the protest saying it is "providing a service -- for those who are interested -- by connecting different fields, providing an outlet for interdisciplinary work and guiding a rigorous review process." The open letter, posted on Oregon State University's site, adds: We see no role for closed access or author-fee publication in the future of machine learning research and believe the adoption of this new journal as an outlet of record for the machine learning community would be a retrograde step. In contrast, we would welcome new zero-cost open access journals and conferences in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Someone should develop a system for decentralized publishing of scientific documents. Like a interconnected network of some kind.
Nice to see that (some) outdated business models have finally reached the dead-on-arrival phase.
Why not just have AI submit to, review, or edit? Problem solved. Then have some more AI pay to read the articles. Closed loops are the best kind.
There is no Zero cost, it costs someone, somewhere.
It may not be zero cost, but the cost of running a VPS hosting some static PDFs is negligible. My VPS costs $10 per month.
The hard part is the peer reviews, for which, under the current system, the journals DO NOT PAY.
Before you give more reasons why Open Access is impossible, you should explain why the physics community is already doing it and it is working well.
If research is funded in full or in part with public funds, then the data and results should be available to the public.
Well, if you actually RTFA, you'll see that they just quote the statement by the editorial board of Machine Learning Journal which in 2001 quit to for free Journal of Machine Learning Research. Nature Machine Learning is supposed to launch in January 2019 and this is what this new petition is all about. So, no, slashdot is not 17 years too late.
I was hoping AI is revolting against paywalls. That could be fun to watch/read about.
Anytime "AI" and "Revolt" are in an articles headline, you know it will generate clicks.
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Sad to crumble your fairy land, but on "old model" the author pays for the reviewing and editing process, the reviewers are not paid for the reviewing, and on a lot of cases, no edition is done by the editors.
What you're paying for is the Journal reputation, some times because you're interested on it, but on most cases because you need it to survive the publish or perish madness that rules academia.