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Informing the Nation: Federal Information Dissemination in an Electronic Age (Washington: GPO, 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
- page images at HathiTrust
- PDF files at Princeton
Turning the Page: The Future of Ebooks (2010), by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PDF with commentary at pwc.com)
The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture From Consumerism to Control (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), by Theodore G. Striphas (zipped PDF with commentary at thelateageofprint.org)
Paperless Publishing, by Colin Haynes (HTML at obs-us.com)

Filed under: Digital Object Identifiers

Implementing Persistent Identifiers: Overview of Concepts, Guidelines and Recommendations (2006), by Hans-Werner Hilse and Jochen Kothe (PDF with commentary at cerl.org)

Filed under: Internet publishing

The Internet Publishing Handbook: For World-Wide Web, Gopher, and WAIS (c1995), by Mike Franks (HTML at mikeandnaomi.com)
Web Writing: Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), ed. by Jack Dougherty and Tennyson Lawrence O'Donnell (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom (c2008), ed. by Robert E. Cummings and Matt Barton (HTML at Michigan)
The Art of Electronic Publishing, by Sandy Ressler
- frame-dependent HTML at Prentice Hall
- simpler HTML at Prentice Hall

Filed under: Libraries and electronic publishing

Library Publishing Toolkit (Geneseo, NY: IDS Project Press, 2013), ed. by Allison P. Brown (PDF and Epub files with commentary at idsproject.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)
The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, c2010), contrib. by Charles Henry, Lisa Spiro, Geneva Henry, Paul N. Courant, Matthew Nielsen, Kathlin Smith, and Roger C. Schonfeld (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (2005), by John Willinsky (PDF at MIT Press)
Digital Libraries: A Vision for the 21st Century: A Festschrift in Honor of Wendy Lougee on the Occasion of Her Departure From the University of Michigan, ed. by Patricia Hodges, Mark Sandler, Maria Bonn, and W. John Price-Wilkin (HTML at Michigan)

Filed under: Open access publishing

Achieving Global Open Access: The Need for Scientific, Epistemic and Participatory Openness (London and New York: Routledge, 2024), by Stephen Pinfield (PDF and Epub with commentary at Taylor and Francis)
Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2023), by Peter Baldwin (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
Plan S for Shock: Science, Shock, Solution, Speed (London: Ubiquity Press, c2022), by Robert-Jan H. M. Smits and Rachael Pells, contrib. by Randy W. Schekman
- multiple formats with commentary at Ubiquity Press
- PDF with commentary at OAPEN
Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), ed. by Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray (PDF files at MIT)
Knowledge Unbound: Selected Writings on Open Access, 2002-2011 (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2016), by Peter Suber (multiple formats with commentary at MIT Press)
Guide to Open Access Monograph Publishing for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Researchers: Helping Researchers to Understand the Opportunities and Challenges of Publishing a Scholarly Monograph in Open Access (2015), by Ellen Collins, Caren Milloy, and Graham Stone, ed. by James Baker, Martin Paul Eve, and Ernesto Priego (PDF at wellcome.org)
Issues in Open Research Data (London: Ubiquity Press, c2014), ed. by Samuel A. Moore (multiple formats with commentary at Ubiquity Press)
Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014), by Martin Paul Eve (PDF files with commentary at cambridge.org)
Open Content: A Practical Guide to Using Creative Commons Licences (2014), by Till Kreutzer (HTML and PDF with commentary at wikimedia.org)
Open Access (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2012), by Peter Suber (multiple formats with commentary at MIT Press)
Online Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing (2010), by Co-Action Publishing and Lunds universitetsbibliotek (HTML at doaj.org)
Open Access and Libraries: Essays from Cites and Insights, 2001-2009 (c2010), by Walt Crawford (PDF at waltcrawford.name)
The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (2005), by John Willinsky (PDF at MIT Press)
Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2023), ed. by Maria Bonn, Josh Bolick, and Will Cross (PDF at ala.org)
#Open Textbook Tweet: Driving the Awareness and Adoption of Open Textbooks (Cupertino, CA: THINKaha, 2010), by Sharyn Fitzpatrick (PDF with commentary at wikieducator.org)
Open Science, Open Data, Open Source: 21st Century Research Skills for the Life Sciences (2017), by Pedro L. Fernandes and Rutger Vos (illustrated HTML at github.io)
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)
The Academic Book of the Future (New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), ed. by Rebecca E. Lyons and Samantha J. Rayner (multiple formats at palgrave.com)
Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber: Teaching, Knowledge Exchange and Public Engagement (London: Ubiquity Press, c2016), ed. by Gabriel Bodard and Matteo Romanello, contrib. by Stella Dee, Maryam Foradi, Filip Šaric, Simon Mahony, Simona Stoyanova, Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox, Francesco Mambrini, Segolene Tarte, Alberto Campagnolo, Alejandro Giacometti, L. W. MacDonald, Melissa M. Terras, Adam Gibson, Valeria Vitale, Bridget Almas, Marie-Claire Beaulieu, James Brusuelas, and Silvia Orlandi
- PDF with commentary at oapen.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Whose Book is it Anyway? A View From Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Janis Jefferies and Sarah Kember (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
Made With Creative Commons (Copenhagen: Ctrl+Alt+Delete Books, c2017), by Paul Stacey and Sarah H. Pearson (multiple formats with commentary at creativecommons.org)
The Battle for Open: How Openness Won and Why It Doesn't Feel Like Victory (London: Ubiquity Press, 2014), by Martin Weller (multiple formats at ubiquitypress.com)
Library Publishing Toolkit (Geneseo, NY: IDS Project Press, 2013), ed. by Allison P. Brown (PDF and Epub files with commentary at idsproject.org)
Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge (The Hague: International Federation of Library Associations, c2012), ed. by Jesus Lau, Anna Maria Tammaro, and T. J. D. Bothma (PDF files with commentary at degruyter.com)
Access to Knowledge for Consumers: Reports of Campaigns and Research, 2008-2010 (Kuala Lumpur: Consumers International, 2010), ed. by Jeremy Malcolm (PDF with commentary at a2knetwork.org)
Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library (2006), by Martha L. Brogan (PDF and HTML at diglib.org)
Study on the Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets in Europe (2006), contrib. by M. Dewatripont, Victor Ginsburgh, Patrick Legros, Alexis Walckiers, Jean-Pierre Devroey, Marianne Dujardin, Françoise Vandooren, Pierre Dubois, Jérôme Foncel, Marc Ivaldi, and Marie-Dominique Heusse (PDF with commentary in Europe)
Gold Open Access Journals (multiple editions, with data), by Walt Crawford (PDF files with commentary at waltcrawford.name)
The Open Data Handbook, by Open Knowledge Foundation (HTML and PDF at opendatahandbook.org)

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