Home Statement on Nature Machine Intelligence

Machine learning has been at the forefront of the movement for free and open access to research. For example, in 2001 the Editorial Board of the Machine Learning Journal resigned en masse to form a new zero-cost open access journal, the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). "…journals should principally serve the needs of the intellectual community, in particular by providing the immediate and universal access to journal articles that modern technology supports, and doing so at a cost that excludes no one." In addition to JMLR, virtually all of the major machine learning outlets including NIPS, ICML, ICLR, COLT, UAI, and AISTATS make no charge for access to or publication of papers. In the light of this, and the recent announcement by Nature Publishing Group of a new closed-access journal, "Nature Machine Intelligence", the following list of researchers hereby state that they will not submit to, review, or edit for this new journal.