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• The Artistic Censoring of Sexuality: Fantasy and Judgment in the Twentieth-Century Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Susan Mooney (PDF at Ohio State)

• Remains to be Seen: Tracing Joe Hill's Ashes in New Zealand (2011), by Jared Davidson (PDF with commentary at Rebel Press)

• Books Condemned to be Burnt (London: E. Stock, 1892), by James Anson Farrer
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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• Every Citizen has a Right to Know: A Report of the Georgia Literature Commission (1954), by James Pickett Wesberry and Georgia State Literature Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Suppression Stories (1997), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)
• Pernicious Literature: Debate in the House of Commons; Trial and Conviction for Sale of Zola's novels; With Opinions of the Press (London: National Vigilance Assoc., 1889), by National Vigilance Association (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)

• False Freedom: Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2005), by Elijah Zarwan (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• False Freedom: Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2005), by Elijah Zarwan (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• When the Censor Comes: A Guide for Teachers, Librarians, Booksellers and Others Who Disseminate the Printed Word, by Sandra Bernstein (HTML at freedomtoread.ca)

• The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How the Communist Party's Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets Around the World (Washington: Center for International Media Assistance, National Endowment for Democracy, 2013), by Sarah G. Cook (PDF at ned.org)
• "You Will be Harassed and Detained": Media Freedoms Under Assault in China Ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games (2007), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML with commentary at hrw.org)

• China's Forbidden Zones: Shutting the Media out of Tibet and Other "Sensitive" Stories (2008), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• "You Will be Harassed and Detained": Media Freedoms Under Assault in China Ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games (2007), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML with commentary 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 Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How the Communist Party's Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets Around the World (Washington: Center for International Media Assistance, National Endowment for Democracy, 2013), by Sarah G. Cook (PDF at ned.org)

• Cyber-Nationalism in China: Challenging Western Media Portrayals of Internet Censorship in China (c2012), by Ying Jiang (PDF and Epub with commentary at Adelaide)
• "Race to the Bottom": Corporate Complicity in Chinese Internet Censorship (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2006), by Rebecca MacKinnon (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• China's Forbidden Zones: Shutting the Media out of Tibet and Other "Sensitive" Stories (2008), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• The Cuban Scene: Censors and Dissenters (CANF pamphlet #2; Washington, DC: Cuban American National Foundation, 1982), by Carlos Ripoll (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Muzzling the Media: The Return of Censorship in the Commonwealth of Independent States (2007), by Christopher Walker (PDF at unhcr.org)

• Muzzling the Media: The Return of Censorship in the Commonwealth of Independent States (2007), by Christopher Walker (PDF at unhcr.org)

• Books Condemned to be Burnt (London: E. Stock, 1892), by James Anson Farrer
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Elements of the Art of Packing As Applied to Special Juries: Particularly in Cases of Libel Law (1821), by Jeremy Bentham (HTML at constitution.org)

• False Freedom: Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2005), by Elijah Zarwan (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• False Freedom: Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2005), by Elijah Zarwan (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom (partial serial archives)
• Attacks on the Press, by Committee to Protect Journalists (partial serial archives)
• Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy (issues free to access after 1 year; 2016-) (partial serial archives)
• Index on Censorship (free access available to all but the 4 most recent issues) (partial serial archives)

• Attacks on the Press, by Committee to Protect Journalists (partial serial archives)
• Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy (issues free to access after 1 year; 2016-) (partial serial archives)

• Freedom on the Net, by Freedom House (U.S.) (partial serial archives)

• Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy (issues free to access after 1 year; 2016-) (partial serial archives)
• Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom (partial serial archives)
• Information for Social Change (1994-) (partial serial archives)

• Negotiating the News: Informal State Censorship of Ukrainian Television (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2003), by Jane Buchanan (PDF at hrw.org)

• Media Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship (second edition; New York: Free Expression Policy Project, c2003), by Marjorie Heins and Christina Cho (PDF at fepproject.org)
• Jurgen and the Censor: Report of the Emergency Committee Organized to Protest Against the Suppression of James Branch Cabell's Jurgen (New York: Privately printed for the Emergency Committee, 1920), by Emergency Committee Organized to Protest Against the Suppression of James Branch Cabell's Jurgen, contrib. by James Branch Cabell, Barrett H. Clark, Padraic Colum, Edward Hale Bierstadt, Arnold Bennett, Theodore Dreiser, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Joseph Hergesheimer, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Christopher Morley, Hugh Walpole, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, and Owen Wister (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who is the Enemy: Anthony Comstock Or You? (New York: Edwin C. Walker, 1903), by Edwin C. Walker (page images at Google; US access only)

• 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)
• Off Limits: Censorship and Corruption (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1991), by Paul Glickman (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• The Censorship of the Church of Rome and Its Influence Upon the Production and Distribution of Literature: A Study of the History of the Prohibitory and Expurgatory Indexes, Together With Some Consideration of the Effects of Protestant Censorship and of Censorship by the State (2 volumes; New York and London: G. P Putnam's Sons, 1906-1907), by George Haven Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Direction Générale de l'Imprimerie et de la Librairie (1810-1815) (extract from Le Livre, in French; 1887), by Henri Welschinger
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• On the Liberty of the Press, and Public Discussion, by Jeremy Bentham (HTML at Texas)
• The Free Press, by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)

• The Cuban Scene: Censors and Dissenters (CANF pamphlet #2; Washington, DC: Cuban American National Foundation, 1982), by Carlos Ripoll (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2008), ed. by Ronald Deibert, John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), ed. by Ronald Deibert, John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, by Noam Chomsky (HTML at zcomm.org)

• Pernicious Literature: Debate in the House of Commons; Trial and Conviction for Sale of Zola's novels; With Opinions of the Press (London: National Vigilance Assoc., 1889), by National Vigilance Association (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)

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