ong ( on December 20, 2007, 21:57:53 ) When it comes to open access and open source, the computational biology people are far ahead of machine learners. Many journals are open access, notably PLoS and Bioinformatics (both). Moreover, many journals encourage authors to have open source software for the methods described in their submissions. Some journals basically have a section at the end of the abstract where the authors have to make a statement about availability of the method. This simple act forces authors to be up front about whether their software is open source or their method is available on a web server, or not available at all. Now, there is a call for comments on their policy originally written in 2002. I think many of the points raised in computational biology are highly relevant to machine learning too. http://iscb-discussion.blogspot.com/2007/06/data-and-software-sharing-policy.html

ong ( on March 19, 2008, 09:19:41 ) 15 April 2008 is the deadline for comment for the ISCB call for comment on their software sharing policy. If you look at any bioinformatics data, now is the time. http://www.iscb.org/policy_statements

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