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• 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)

• Freedom of the Press, by Freedom House (U.S.) (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)

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

• 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)
• In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1949, No. 248: John Howard Lawson, Petitioner, vs. United States of America, Respondent; No. 249: Dalton Trumbo, Petitioner, vs. United States of America, Respondent: Brief of Alexander Meiklejohn, of Cultural Workers in Motion Pictures and Other Arts, and of Members of the Professions, as Amici Curiae (Los Angeles: Parker and Co., printers, ca. 1949), by Max Radin and Carey McWilliams, contrib. by Alexander Meiklejohn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• You Can't Print That! The Truth Behind the News, 1918-1928, by George Seldes (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)

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

• China's Pursuit of a New World Media Order (in English, Chinese, and French; 2019), by Reporters Without Borders (PDF files with commentary at rsf.org)
• 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 and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• 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)
• 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 freedomhouse.org)

• Israeli Censorship of Arab Publications: A Survey (New York: Fund for Free Expression, c1983), by Meron Benvenisti (PDF 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)

• Verboden Boeken, Geschriften, Couranten, enz. in de 18e Eeuw: Eene Bijdrage tot de Geschiedenis der Haagsche Censuur (2 parts, in Dutch; Haarlem: W. C. de Graaff, 1881-1882), by A.J. Servaas van Rooijen
  • both parts: multiple formats at Google
  • both parts: page images at HathiTrust

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

• Negotiating the News: Informal State Censorship of Ukrainian Television (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2003), by Jane Buchanan (PDF at hrw.org)
• "EuroMaydan": Human Rights Violations During Protests in Ukraine (2013), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.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 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)

• Israeli Censorship of Arab Publications: A Survey (New York: Fund for Free Expression, c1983), by Meron Benvenisti (PDF at hrw.org)

• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Liberty and the News (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), by Walter Lippmann (multiple fomrats at archive.org)
• On the Liberty of the Press, and Public Discussion, by Jeremy Bentham (HTML at Texas)
• The Free Press (London: G. Allen and Unwin, c1918), by Hilaire Belloc
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• You Can't Print That! The Truth Behind the News, 1918-1928, by George Seldes (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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 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 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)

• In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1949, No. 248: John Howard Lawson, Petitioner, vs. United States of America, Respondent; No. 249: Dalton Trumbo, Petitioner, vs. United States of America, Respondent: Brief of Alexander Meiklejohn, of Cultural Workers in Motion Pictures and Other Arts, and of Members of the Professions, as Amici Curiae (Los Angeles: Parker and Co., printers, ca. 1949), by Max Radin and Carey McWilliams, contrib. by Alexander Meiklejohn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Code to Govern the Making of Motion Pictures, the Reasons Supporting it and the Resolution for Uniform Interpretation (aka the Hays code; original version adopted 1930; this edition includes changes up to 1955), by Motion Picture Association of America
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at oscars.org

• Censorship and the Public Library; With Other Papers (New York: H. W. Wilson, Co., 1931), by George Franklin Bowerman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2018), by Tarleton Gillespie (multiple formats at archive.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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