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February/March 2009 issue of Innovate has Marc Prensky recasting his "digital native/digital immigrant" notion as "digital wisdom" - check it out

a research and development initiative directed toward improving the scholarly and public quality of academic research through the development of innovative online publishing and knowledge-sharing environments.

John Willinsky at Stanford University's School of Education (home): investigating publishing technologies and the various / new lines draw between public and private commons. Exploring the value of the public commons

the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system. Developed by the Association of Research Libraries, SPARC has become a catalyst for change. Its pragmatic focus is to stimulate the emergence of new scholarly communication models that expand the dissemination of scholarly research and reduce financial pressures on libraries. Action by SPARC in collaboration with stakeholders - including authors, publishers, and libraries - builds on the unprecedented opportunities created by the networked digital environment to advance the conduct of scholarship. Leading academic organizations have endorsed SPARC.

Open Access Data Protocol: good solution for data management requirements imposed by NSF and other agencies

Open Education: Opening up eduation book (for free!) on MIT Press

100 Open Access Journals for Educators