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• Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (Princeton: Princeton University Press, c2013), by E. Gabriella Coleman (PDF with commentary at codingfreedom.com and gabriellacoleman.org)

• Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom (partial serial archives)
• Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy (issues free to access after 1 year; 2016-) (partial serial archives)
• Cites and Insights: Crawford at Large, by Walt Crawford (full serial archives)

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

• In Defense of Free Speech in Universities: A Study of Three Jurisdictions (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Amy Tak-Yee Lai (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Academics in Exile: Networks, Knowledge Exchange and New Forms of Internationalization (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, c2022), ed. by Vera Axyonova, Florian Kohstall, and Carola Richter (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Suppression Stories (1997), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)
• The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding (2025), by Stephan Lewandowsky, Vera Kempe, Konstantinos Armaos, Ulrike Hahn, Christoph Abels, Susilo Wibisono, Winnifred R. Louis, Sunita Sah, Christina Pagel, Nina Jankowicz, Renee DiResta, Philipp Markolin, Henrik Schoenemann, Ralph Hertwig, Henry Crull, Barry Mauer, Dawn Holford, Ezequiel Lopez-Lopez, and John Cook (PDF with commentary at zenodo.org)
• Freedom of Expression in Universities and University Colleges: More Democracy, More Openness, and More Humanity? (Oslo: Scandinavian Academic Press, c2020), ed. by Mona Wille (PDF with commentary at Scandinavian Academic Press)
• The Church: Learning and Teaching (1987), by Ladislas M. Orsy (HTML at womenpriests.org)

• 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)

• 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)

• Republic of Belarus: Violations of Academic Freedom (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1999), by Malcolm Hawkes (HTML at hrw.org)

• The Western University on Trial (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), ed. by John W. Chapman (HTML at UC Press)

• The Western University on Trial (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), ed. by John W. Chapman (HTML at UC Press)

• On the Nationalisation of the Old English Universities (London: Chapman and Hall, 1901), by Lewis Campbell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Freedom of Speech in Universities: Islam, Charities and Counter-Terrorism (London and New York: Routledge, 2021), by Alison Scott-Baumann and Simon Perfect (multiple formats with commentary at Taylor and Francis)

• Academic Freedom in a Plural World: Global Critical Perspectives (Budapest et al: Central European University Press, c2024), ed. by Nandini Ramanujam and Frédéric Mégret (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Academic Freedom in Indonesia: Dismantling Soeharto-Era Barriers, by Joseph Saunders (HTML at hrw.org)

• Declaration for South Tirol: A Letter to the Universities, at Home and Abroad (1926), by Universität Erlangen, Universität München, Polytechnic Academy of Munich, and Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, contrib. by Georg Kerschensteiner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Dismissal of Bob Burke: Heidelberg Comes to Columbia (New York: Burke Defense Committee; American Student Union; American Civil Liberties Union, ca. 1936) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Journal of Academic Freedom (full serial archives)

• Journal of Academic Freedom (full serial archives)

• Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors, by American Association of University Professors (partial serial archives)

• What is Academic Freedom? A Century of Debate, 1915-Present (London and New York: Routledge, c2023), by Daniel Gordon (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces: Diversity and Free Expression in Education (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by John Palfrey (illustrated HTML at bravespaces.org)
• The Limits of Religious Tolerance (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, c2016), by Alan Levinovitz (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• And Campus for All: Diversity, Inclusion, and Freedom of Speech at U.S. Universities (2016), by American Center of P.E.N. (PDF with commentary at pen.org)
• Cold War on the Campus (New York: Socialist Youth League, 1950), by Robert Martinson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Academic Epidemic: A Study in Self-Expression (ca. 1940), by Maia Turchin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Three Important Articles on Academic Freedom (ca. 1950), by National Council for American Education (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Towards the New Education: The Case Against Autocracy in Our Public Schools (Being a Reply to a Pamphlet Issued by the Schoolmasters' Association of New York and Vicinity and the American Defense Society, Entitled, "Unpatriotic Teaching in Public Schools") (ca. 1918), by Teachers' Union of the City of New York
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Big Business and the American University (New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1966), by Bettina Aptheker (frame-dependent HTML at cdlib.org)

• Freedom in Science and Teaching (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1879), by Ernst Haeckel, contrib. by Thomas Henry Huxley (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Freedom of Expression in Universities and University Colleges: More Democracy, More Openness, and More Humanity? (Oslo: Scandinavian Academic Press, c2020), ed. by Mona Wille (PDF with commentary at Scandinavian Academic Press)
• Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance: Essays in Honor and Memory of Yitzhak Rabin (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), ed. by Raphael Cohen-Almagor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech and Respect (Hamlyn Lectures, #44; London: Stevens and Sons/Sweet and Maxwell, 1994), by Richard L. Abel (PDF in the UK)
• Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation (2008), by Steve Buckley, Kreszentia Duer, Toby Mendel, and Seán Ó Siochrú, contrib. by Monroe E. Price and Marc Raboy (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• In Defense of Free Speech in Universities: A Study of Three Jurisdictions (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Amy Tak-Yee Lai (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Defeating Disinformation: Digital Platform Responsibility, Regulation, and Content Moderation on the Global Technological Commons (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2025), ed. by Bhaskar Chakravorti and Joel P. Trachtman (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge)
• Suppression Stories (1997), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)
• The Limits of Religious Tolerance (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, c2016), by Alan Levinovitz (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• On the Liberty of the Press, and Public Discussion, by Jeremy Bentham (HTML at Texas)
• We Want a University (ca. 1965), by Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.), contrib. by Neal Blumenfeld (frame-dependent HTML at cdlib.org)

• In Defense of Free Speech in Universities: A Study of Three Jurisdictions (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Amy Tak-Yee Lai (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Chile, Progress Stalled: Setbacks in Freedom of Expression Reform (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2001), by Sebastian Brett (HTML with commentary at hrw.org)
• Limits of Tolerance: Freedom of Expression and the Public Debate in Chile, by Sebastian Brett (HTML at hrw.org)

• Media Freedom in China: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, June 24, 2002 (Washington: GPO, 2002), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  • PDF and text at cecc.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Heresy of Words in Cuba: Freedom of Expression and Information (Perspectives on Freedom #4; New York: Freedom House, c1985), by Carlos Ripoll (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Freedom of Speech in Universities: Islam, Charities and Counter-Terrorism (London and New York: Routledge, 2021), by Alison Scott-Baumann and Simon Perfect (multiple formats with commentary at Taylor and Francis)
• In Defense of Free Speech in Universities: A Study of Three Jurisdictions (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Amy Tak-Yee Lai (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

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