Checkout this fascinating resource: http://www.digitaluniverse.net/ "The Digital Universe is an intuitively organized, multimedia Web that will inform, educate, engage and involve people worldwide. The mission is to realize the Internet's potential as an open, non-commercial medium that inspires creativity, communication, collaboration and education."

"The Digital Universe will consist of an encyclopedia, library, archive, multimedia learning center, news source, web directory, and more. The central focus will be reliable content."

ok, this is totally snaked off of a listserv so that I can spend more time with it later:http://www.lib.utk.edu/newfoundpress/Newfound Press is a new digital imprint from the University of TennesseeUniversity Libraries. All its publications will be Open Access. From the site:Today’s scholarly publishing environment presents a strategic opportunity foracademic libraries to expand their role in the publications process.Universities are both creators and consumers in the information economy.