The EARTHscope Library User Interface.

• Global-level content published by leading institutions
• Community-level content published by students and local grass roots organizations

The EARTHscope Library will contain a wide range of graphically rich (i.e., maps, photos, charts, graphs etc.) presentations prepared by:

• Schools, students, researchers and scientists
• Community groups and conservation activists
• NGOs, institutions, and government organizations

Volume One: Online Atlas
An example of the type of institutional level content we aim to make available through the EARTHscope Library, is the Atlas of Population and Environment (featured on UNEP's ourplanet.com).

Working in collaboration with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), we transformed the Atlas, one of AAAS's premier print publications, into a highly innovative and widely distributed online educational and research resource. AAAS is the world's largest federation of scientists and engineers with an average monthly audience for their online Atlas of over 120,000 unique readers. This collaboration was launched on aaas.org at the end of January 2003.