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• How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It (San Francisco: No Starch Press, c2008), by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates
  • multiple formats with commentary at howwikipediawork.net and archive.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia (electronic edition, collaboratively updated) (HTML at wikipedia.org)

• Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Joseph Michael Reagle, contrib. by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality (open access edition; New York and London: Routledge, 2022), by Zachary J. McDowell and Matthew A. Vetter (PDF files at taylorfrancis.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Network Reshapes the Library: Lorcan Dempsey on Libraries, Services, and Networks (Chicago: ALA Editions, 2014), by Lorcan Dempsey, ed. by Kenneth J. Varnum (PDF with commentary at oclc.org)
• Open at the Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education, ed. by Maha Bali, Catherine Cronin, Laura Czerniewicz, Robin DeRosa, and Rajiv Jhangiani (multiple formats at rebus.community)

• High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine (2000-2006) (full serial archives)
• CLIR Issues (full serial archives)

• Ho Eranistes (full serial archives)
• Studies in Bibliography (partial serial archives)
• Magyar Könyvszemle (in Hungarian) (full serial archives)
• The National Library of Wales Journal (partial serial archives)
• The Library (partial serial archives)
• The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of Bibliography (partial serial archives)
• Harvard Library Bulletin (partial serial archives)
• The New Colophon (partial serial archives)
• Papers of the Bibliographical Society, University of Virginia (full serial archives)
• The Colophon (partial serial archives)
• The Private Library (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin du Bibliophile et du Bibliothécaire (in French) (partial serial archives)
• The Bookman (London, 1891-1934) (partial serial archives)
• The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (partial serial archives)
• La Bibliofilia (partial serial archives)
• American Notes and Queries (New Haven, 1962-1986) (partial serial archives)
• The Annual Literary Index (full serial archives)
• The Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of America (full serial archives)
• The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas (full serial archives)
• Book Review Digest (partial serial archives)
• The Library Association Record (partial serial archives)
• Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen (in German) (partial serial archives)
• The Book Buyer (partial serial archives)
• Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular (full serial archives)
• The Dolphin (American Catholic review, 1901-1905) (full serial archives)

• International Journal of Digital Curation (2006-) (full serial archives)
• Insights: The UKSG Journal (2012-) (full serial archives)

• Fly Leaves: or, Scraps and Sketches, Literary, Bibliographical and Miscellaneous, Consisting of Notes on Antiquarian and Historical Subjects, Collections Towards Neglected Biography, Memorials of Old London, Choice Specimens of Ancient Poetry, Chiefly From Unpublished Mss., Scraps and Sketches, Curious and Interesting, With Numerous Bibliographical Notices, etc., etc. (London: J. Miller, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Picture Books, With Other Essays on Bookish Subjects (Londen: Methuen and Co., 1902), by Alfred W. Pollard (page images at CMU)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886), by Percy Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (second edition, revised; London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1887), by Percy Fitzgerald (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books (10 volumes; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805-1809), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)

• Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Miriam J. Metzger and Andrew J. Flanagin (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library (2006), by Martha L. Brogan (PDF and HTML at diglib.org)
• The Open Data Handbook, by Open Knowledge Foundation (HTML and PDF at opendatahandbook.org)

• How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Publications (2018), by Tracy Gardner and Simon Inger (PDF at renewconsultants.com)

• Open: The Philosophy and Practices That are Revolutionizing Education and Science (London: Ubiquity Press, 2017), ed. by Rajiv Jhangiani and Robert Biswas-Diener (multiple formats wth commentary at Ubiquity Press)
• Open Education: International Perspectives in Higher Education (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016), ed. by Patrick Blessinger and T. J. Bliss (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2023), ed. by Maria Bonn, Josh Bolick, and Will Cross (PDF at ala.org)
• Open at the Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education, ed. by Maha Bali, Catherine Cronin, Laura Czerniewicz, Robin DeRosa, and Rajiv Jhangiani (multiple formats at rebus.community)

• Report on the Availability of Bombmaking Information, the Extent to Which its Dissemination is Controlled by Federal Law, and the Extent to Which Such Dissemination May Be Subject to Regulation Consistent with the First Amendment to the United States Constitution (1997), by United States Department of Justice (HTML with commentary at cryptome.org)

• Public Information About Osteoporosis: What's Available, What's Needed? (OTA-BP-H-131; 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

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