''Machine Learning'' is a

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, published since 1986. In 2001, forty editors and members of the

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of ''Machine Learning'' resigned in order to support the ''

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'' (JMLR), saying that in the era of the

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, it was detrimental for researchers to continue publishing their papers in expensive journals with pay-access archives. Instead, they wrote, they supported the model of ''JMLR'', in which authors retained copyright over their papers and archives were freely available on the internet. Following the mass resignation,

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changed their publishing policy to allow authors to self-archive their papers online after

Selected articles

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