Machine Learning for Newbies

In [1] Pedro Domingos recopilates some Machine Learning related stuff that can be useful for a beginner in the field. There is a list of journals

1. Machine Learning
2. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
3. Neural Computation
4. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
5. Journal of Machine Learning Research
6. Journal of Machine Learning Gossip
   

A list of conferences

1. International Conference on Machine Learning
2. European Conference on Machine Learning
3. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
4. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
5. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
6. Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
7. International Workshop on Multistrategy Learning
8. International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics
9. International Conference on Computational Learning Theory (COLT)
   
10. European Conference on Computational Learning Theory

Other resources

1. UCI repository of machine learning databases
2. Online bibliographies of several subareas of machine learning
3. Machine Learning List
4. AI and Statistics List
5. MLC++
6. Weka

There are more useful resources for a researcher, I add my favourites

1. Citeseer
2. DBLP
3. Rexa
4. DataSets for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
5. DataMining Conferences
6. Machine Learning (Theory)
   

References:
[1] Pedro Domingos, "E4 - Machine Learning" In W. Klosgen and J. Zytkow (eds.), Handbook of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (pp. 660-670), 2002. New York: Oxford University Press. (Download)