http://www.vldb.org "Very Large Data Base Endowment Inc. (VLDB Endowment) is non-profit organisation incorporated in the United States for the sole purpose of promoting and exchanging scholarly work in databases and related fields throughout the world."

To read anything more than the abstract of the articles from the E''''''lectronicEdition of their journals, one must be a subscriber.

Those of you with a theoretical bent will find the papers here interesting, most wiki readers could get some value from reading their conference keynote speeches (and the like).

For example, there was an interesting keynote speech on SelfTuningDatabases.