Journal of Machine Learning Research - new publisher/website

Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) was founded in 2001 by editors who jumped ship from the Kluwer journal, Machine Learning. [See Open Access Lists - Journal Declarations of Independence #8] A SPARC Alternative, the JMLR has been published since 2001 by MIT Press. JMLR is an Open Access title, completely free on the web. They have been supported by libraries that agreed to purchase the print version, which was priced at $400 for 2004. This new journal achieved an ISI Impact Factor of 4.317 after only three years of publication. For financial reasons, in spite of the success of the new title, MIT Press wishes to discontinue publishing the print journal. JMLR has struck a deal with a new publisher, Microtome Publishing, founded by Stuart M. Shieber (Professor of Computer Science, Harvard). The print price will be $200 in 2005 -- a reduction of 50%. Note that the web site for Journal of Machine Learning Research has changed. (Many thanks to Bob Michaelson, Northwestern University, for mentioning this development on PAMNET.)