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• Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2016), ed. by Suzanne M. Ward, Robert S. Freeman, and Judith M. Nixon (PDF at Purdue)

• Transforming Acquisitions and Collection Services: Perspectives on Collaboration Within and Across Libraries (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2019), ed. by Michelle Flinchbaugh, Charles Franklin Thomas, Rob Tench, Vicki Sipe, Robin Barnard Moskal, Lynda L. Aldana, and Erica A. Owusu (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Serials Control and Deselection Projects (SPEC Kit #147; 1988), ed. by Association of Research Libraries Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Data Information Literacy: Librarians, Data, and the Education of a New Generation of Researchers (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2015), ed. by Jake Carlson and Lisa Johnston (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Library Workflow Redesign: Six Case Studies (2007), ed. by Marilyn Mitchell (HTML and PDF at clir.org)

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• Reports of the AAU Task Forces: Acquisition and Distribution of Foreign Language and Area Studies Materials; A National Strategy for Managing Scientific and Technological Information; Intellectual Property Rights in an Electronic Environment, by Association of American Universities Research Libraries Project (page images at HathiTrust)

• Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Higher Education in 2025 (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2010), by David J. Staley and Kara Josephine Malenfant (PDF at ala.org)

• Origins of the American College Library, 1638-1800 (Nashville: George Peabody College, 1934), by Louis Shores (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of American Colleges and Their Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Bibliographical Essay (University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science Occasional Paper #140; 1979), by David S. Zubatsky (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of American Colleges and Their Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Bibliographical Essay (University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science Occasional Paper #140; 1979), by David S. Zubatsky (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of American Colleges and Their Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Bibliographical Essay (University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science Occasional Paper #140; 1979), by David S. Zubatsky (page images at HathiTrust)

• Weave: Journal of Library User Experience (2014-) (full serial archives)

• Kansas Library Association College and University Libraries Section Proceedings (2011-) (full serial archives)

• The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin (partial serial archives)
• The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas (full serial archives)

• ARL Statistics (issues, tables, and supplementary materials of some older issues freely available; newer issues may require subscription or payment to access), by Association of Research Libraries (partial serial archives)

• Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Higher Education in 2025 (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2010), by David J. Staley and Kara Josephine Malenfant (PDF at ala.org)

• Transforming Acquisitions and Collection Services: Perspectives on Collaboration Within and Across Libraries (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2019), ed. by Michelle Flinchbaugh, Charles Franklin Thomas, Rob Tench, Vicki Sipe, Robin Barnard Moskal, Lynda L. Aldana, and Erica A. Owusu (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• University Libraries and Scholarly Communication (1992), by Anthony Cummings, Marcia L. Witte, William G. Bowen, Laura O. Lazarus, and Richard Ekman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Getting the Word Out: Libraries as Scholarly Publishers (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2015), ed. by Maria Bonn and Mike Furlough (PDF at ala.org)
• The Once and Future Publishing Library (CLIR publication #166; Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources and Library of Congress, 2015), by Ann Okerson and Alex Holzman (PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2016), ed. by John W. White and Heather Gilbert
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • PDF with commentary at Purdue
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• Educational Matchmaking: Academic and Vocational Tracking in Comprehensive High Schools, by Jeannie Oakes, Molly Selvin, Lynn A. Karoly, and Gretchen Gulton (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• Children in Jeopardy: A Study of Abused Minors and Their Families (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1967), by Elizabeth Elmer, contrib. by Bertram R. Girdany, Thomas McHenry, and John B. Reinhart (page images at Pitt)

• Family Size and Achievement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Judith Blake (HTML at UC Press)

• The Scholar's Courtesy: The Role of Acknowledgement in the Primary Communication Process (1995), by Blaise Cronin (linked PDF files here at Penn)

• Intellectual Suppression: Australian Case Histories, Analysis and Responses (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1986), ed. by Brian Martin, C. M. Ann Baker, Clyde Manwell, and Cedric D. J. Pugh (PDF in Australia)

• Serials Control and Deselection Projects (SPEC Kit #147; 1988), ed. by Association of Research Libraries Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by James G. Carrier and Achsah H. Carrier (HTML at UC Press)

• The Many Faces of Human Security: Case Studies of Seven Countries in Southern Africa (2005), ed. by Keith Muloongo, Roger Kibasomba, and Jemima Njeri Kariri (PDF at issafrica.org)

• Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c2013), by Alexander Betts (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Press)

• Electing Black Mayors: Political Action in the Black Community (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1977), by William E. Nelson and Philip J. Meranto (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• The Negro Leadership Class (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1963), by Daniel C. Thompson, contrib. by Martin Luther King (page images at HathiTrust)

• Electing Black Mayors: Political Action in the Black Community (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1977), by William E. Nelson and Philip J. Meranto (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1999), ed. by Francisco J. Pichón, Jorge E. Uquillas, and John Frechione (page images at Pitt)

• Development Projects in the Sudan: An Analysis of Their Reports With Implications for Research and Training in Arid Land Management (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, c1979), by Heinz-Ulrich Thimm (HTML at UNU Press)

• Alternative Agriculture (1989), by National Research Council Board on Agriculture (multiple formats at NAP)

• African Agriculture: The Critical Choices (c1990), ed. by Hamid Ait Amara and Bernard Founou-Tchuigoua (HTML at UNU)

• Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan (Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies #11; 1984), by Robert C. Marshall (HTML with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Airpower Versus Terrorism: Three Case Studies (2003), by Todd R. Phinney (PDF at dtic.mil)

• The Lost Territories of the Republic (Les Territoires Perdus de la Republique) (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2006), by Emmanuel Brenner, trans. by Robert Chodos and Susan Joanis, contrib. by Martine Trink Rubinstein (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Handbook of Leaving Religion (Leiden and Boston: Brill, c2020), ed. by Daniel Enstedt, Göran Larsson, and Teemu T. Mantsinen (PDF files with commentary at JSTOR)

• Sacred Heritage: Monastic Archaeology, Identities, Beliefs (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Roberta Gilchrist (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge University Press)

• Modernity and Housing (originally published 1993; open access edition with new preface, ca. 2018), by Peter G. Rowe (PDF files at MIT)

• Development Projects in the Sudan: An Analysis of Their Reports With Implications for Research and Training in Arid Land Management (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, c1979), by Heinz-Ulrich Thimm (HTML at UNU Press)

• A Hard Look at Hard Power: Assessing the Defense Capabilities of Key U.S. Allies and Security Partners (second edition; Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, 2020), ed. by Gary James Schmitt (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

• Infrared Spectroscopy in Conservation Science (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999), by Michele R. Derrick, Dusan Stulik, and James M. Landry (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Case Studies and Options for Addressing Ethical Challenges (Cham: Springer, c2023), by Bernd Carsten Stahl, Doris Schroeder, and Rowena Rodrigues
  • multiple formats with commentary at Springer
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• Tempting Fate: Why Nonnuclear States Confront Nuclear Opponents (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Paul C. Avey (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing, and Teaching Genocide (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2017), ed. by Scott W. Murray (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• Auctions: Theory and Practice (prepublication version, 2003), by Paul Klemperer (PDF files in the UK)

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