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Electronic publications

Here are entered works on publications issued in electronic form.

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Publications
• Digital media

• Electronic publications -- Congresses
• Electronic publications -- Conservation and restoration
• Electronic books
• Electronic dissertations
• Electronic encyclopedias
• Electronic journals
• Electronic textbooks

• Online publications

• Text and Genre in Reconstruction: Effects of Digitalization on Ideas, Behaviours, Products and Institutions (Cambridge, UK: OpenBook, 2010), ed. by Willard McCarty (page images at Google)
• A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), ed. by Raymond George Siemens and Susan Schreibman (frame-dependent HTML at digitalhumanities.org)
• Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice (2000), by Alan S. Morrison, Michael Popham, and Karen Wikander (HTML in the UK)

• Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come (2010), ed. by Jerome J. McGann, Andrew M. Stauffer, Dana Wheeles, and Michael Pickard (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• International Journal of Digital Curation (2006-) (full serial archives)

• E-Journal Archiving Metes and Bounds: A Survey of the Landscape (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2006), by Anne R. Kenney, Richard Entlich, Peter B. Hirtle, Nancy Y. McGovern, and Ellie L. Buckley (PDF at clir.org)

• 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)
• Ebooks in Education: Realising the Vision (London: Ubiquity Press, c2014), ed. by Hazel M. Woodward, contrib. by Madeleine Atkins (multiple formats at Ubiquity Press)
• Forty-Five Years of Digitizing Ebooks: Project Gutenberg's Practices (ca. 2016), by Gregory B. Newby (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Turning the Page: The Future of Ebooks (2010), by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PDF with commentary at pwc.com)

• Electronic Book Review (partial serial archives)

• Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms, and Practices (New York et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, c2021), ed. by Dene Grigar and James Christopher O'Sullivan (PDF with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections)

• Turning the Page: The Future of Ebooks (2010), by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PDF with commentary at pwc.com)
• Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books (2005), by Denise Troll Covey (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Virginia Kuhn and Anke K. Finger
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • HTML at openediiton.org

• Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography (current and archived versions, 2005-2010), by Charles W. Bailey (HTML with commentary at digital-scholarship.com)

• 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 M. 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)

• Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing (1995), ed. by Ann Okerson and James J. O'Donnell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Journal of Radical Librarianship (2015-) (full serial archives)

• E-Journal Archiving Metes and Bounds: A Survey of the Landscape (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2006), by Anne R. Kenney, Richard Entlich, Peter B. Hirtle, Nancy Y. McGovern, and Ellie L. Buckley (PDF at clir.org)
• Online Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing (2010), by Co-Action Publishing and Lunds universitetsbibliotek (HTML at doaj.org)

• Transforming Scholarly Publishing Through Open Access: A Bibliography (c2010), by Charles W. Bailey (PDF with commentary at digital-scholarship.org)

• TULIP: Final Report (1997), ed. by Karen Hunter (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Data Journalism Handbook (electronic first edition, c2012), ed. by Liliana Bounegru, Lucy Chambers, and Jonathan Gray (illustrated HTML with commentary at datajournalismhandbook.org)

• E-Journal Archiving Metes and Bounds: A Survey of the Landscape (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2006), by Anne R. Kenney, Richard Entlich, Peter B. Hirtle, Nancy Y. McGovern, and Ellie L. Buckley (PDF at clir.org)

• 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)

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

• The Printed Book (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1929), by Harry Gidney Aldis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Golden Book: The Story of Fine Books and Bookmaking, Past and Present (Chicago: P. Covici, 1927), by Douglas C. McMurtrie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Library (London: Macmillan, 1881), by Andrew Lang, contrib. by Austin Dobson and W. J. Loftie, illust. by J. J. Wild
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Printed Book (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916), by Harry Gidney Aldis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Printed Book (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1921), by Harry Gidney Aldis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of Books (London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Gertrude Burford Rawlings (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of Books (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1901), by Gertrude Burford Rawlings
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Book Preservation Technologies (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• A Book for All Readers: An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900), by Ainsworth Rand Spofford (Gutenberg text)
• Bookbinding, and the Care of Books: A Handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders and Librarians (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1910), by Douglas Cockerell, ed. by W. R. Lethaby, illust. by Noel Rooke (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Greatest Book in the World, and Other Papers (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925), by A. Edward Newton (page images at CMU)
• A Magnificent Farce, and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector (fourth impression; Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922), by A. Edward Newton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• Books and Bookmen, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Boxes for the Protection of Books: Their Design and Construction (Washington, DC: Preservation Directorate, Collections Services, Library of Congress, 1994), by Lage Carlson, John Bertonaschi, Margot Healey, Lynn Kidder, Nancy Lev, Bob Muens, Carol Paulson-Crawford, and Carrie Beyer, illust. by Margaret R. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Care and Repair of Books (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1946), by Harry Miller Lydenberg and John Archer (page images at CMU)
• Book Preservation Technologies (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• The Enemies of Books (second edition; London: E. Stock, 1888), by William Blades (Gutenberg text)

• Book Preservation Technologies (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Book: Its History and Development (London: A. Constable and Co., 1907), by Cyril Davenport (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Book: Its Printers, Illustrators, and Binders, From Gutenberg to the Present Time (London: H. Grevel and Co., 1890), by Henri Bouchot
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at CMU

• Central Documents and Politburo Politics in China (Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies #33; Ann Arbor: Center For Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, c1978), by Kenneth Lieberthal, contrib. by James Tong and Sai-cheung Yeung (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Concept of Operations (ConOps V1.0) For The Future Digital System: Final (Washington: GPO, 2004), by United States Government Printing Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Government Publications in Illinois (Springfield, IL: Illinois State Library, 1974), by Geneva Finn, contrib. by Marian Carroll (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.