I woke up to a twitter feed where people were celebrating and advertising their newly accepted papers for #ICLR 2018.
It's one of the conferences that I really like, well, because of the research that gets published and because of their somewhat unique review system. They use openreview. While the process is double-blinded, the submitted draft and the reviews are open to the public. I took the following excerpt from their conference website directly.
Reviewing Process
Submissions to ICLR are uploaded on OpenReview, which enables public discussion. Official reviews are anonymous and publicly visible. Anybody who is logged in can post comments (anonymously or not). Everybody who is logged in can post comments that are publicly visible or restrict visibility to reviewers and up, ACs and up, or just PCs. In addition, the author of a comment can decide to post anonymously or not. Log in is required before posting any comment.
Authors are encouraged to revise their paper as many times as needed up until the paper deadline of October 27. Note authors can participate in the discussion about their paper as well as any other paper submitted to the conference, at any time.
By November 27 2017, reviewers need to post their full review. Reviews are anonymous and publicly visible in Open Review. Once the reviews are posted, authors are free to make changes to their paper as often as needed.
The rebuttal period will be from November 27, 2017 until January 5, 2018, where authors can address reviewer comments and make changes to the paper. During this period, a pdfdiff will be applied to compare new changes to the paper against the original submission. Area chairs and reviewers reserve the right to ignore changes that are significantly different from the original paper. In addition, during this period, any submission that is cited will be given an anonymous BibTex entry.
On January 29, 2018, authors will be notified about the acceptance or rejection of their paper. Some of the rejected papers that distinguish themselves for their originality will be invited for presentation under the Workshop Track. After notification, all BibTex entries will be de-anonymized.
Papers that are not accepted to the Conference Track will be considered non-archival, and may be submitted elsewhere (modified or not), although the OpenReview site will maintain the reviews, the comments, and links to the versions submitted to ICLR.
I believe this makes research more open to public for both access and participation.