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• A Citizen's Guide on Using the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act of 1974 to Request Government Records (2012), by United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (text and PDF at congress.gov)
• The Information Commons: A Public Policy Report (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2004), by Nancy C. Kranich (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• A Citizen's Guide on Using the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act of 1974 to Request Government Records (fifth edition; Washington: GPO, 1993), by United States House Committee on Government Operations (page images at HathiTrust)
• By the People (address and pamphlet; 2009), by Carl Malamud (multiple formats at resource.org)
• The People's Right to Know: A Report on Government News Suppression (New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1955), by Allen Raymond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the Availability of Bombmaking Information, the Extent to Which its Dissemination is Controlled by Federal Law, and the Extent to Which Such Dissemination May Be Subject to Regulation Consistent with the First Amendment to the United States Constitution (1997), by United States Department of Justice (HTML with commentary at cryptome.org)

• How to Use the Federal FOI Act (8th edition, 1998), by FOI Service Center (HTML at rcfp.org)

• How to Use the Federal FOI Act (8th edition, 1998), by FOI Service Center (HTML at rcfp.org)

• Open Government Guide (formerly titled Tapping Officials' Secrets; updated online edition), by Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (HTML at reporterscommittee.org)

• Open Government Guide (formerly titled Tapping Officials' Secrets; updated online edition), by Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (HTML at reporterscommittee.org)

• 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 (HTML and PDF with commentary at Amherst)
• 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)

• Journal of Academic Freedom (full serial archives)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• Federal Government Information Technology: Management, Security, and Congressional Oversight (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• 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

• Report on the Assessment Of Electronic Government Information Products (Washington: GPO, 1999), by Westat, Inc.
  • PDF files with commentary at govinfo.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Report on the Assessment Of Electronic Government Information Products (Washington: GPO, 1999), by Westat, Inc.
  • PDF files with commentary at govinfo.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• By the People (address and pamphlet; 2009), by Carl Malamud (multiple formats at resource.org)

• Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, Pursuant to Public Law 236, 103rd Congress (1997), by United States Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy (PDF files at govinfo.gov)
• Criminal Prohibitions on Leaks and Other Disclosures of Classified Defense Information (Washington: Congressional Research Service, 2017), by Stephen P. Mulligan and Jennifer Elsea (PDF at fas.org)

• Criminal Prohibitions on Leaks and Other Disclosures of Classified Defense Information (Washington: Congressional Research Service, 2017), by Stephen P. Mulligan and Jennifer Elsea (PDF at fas.org)

• Transforming the Security Classification System: Report to the President (2012), by United States Public Interest Declassification Board (PDF at archives.gov)
• A Review of the Department of Energy Classification Policy and Practice (1995), by National Research Council Board on Radioactive Waste Management (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, Pursuant to Public Law 236, 103rd Congress (1997), by United States Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy (PDF files at govinfo.gov)

• Executive Orders and Proclamations: A Study of a Use of Presidential Powers (Washington: GPO, 1957), by United States House Committee on Government Operations (page images at HathiTrust)

• Transforming the Security Classification System: Report to the President (2012), by United States Public Interest Declassification Board (PDF at archives.gov)

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

• The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons (Cape Town: African Minds; Ottawa: IDRC, 2019), ed. by Tim Davies, Stephen B. Walker, Mor Rubinstein, and Fernando Perini (multiple formats with commentary at od4d.net)
• Controlling Knowledge: Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection in a Networked World (Edmonton: AU Press, c2011), by Lorna Stefanick (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• Freedom of Information: A Comparative Legal Survey (second edition, 2008), by Toby Mendel (PDF with commentary at unesco.org)
• Information Liberation: Challenging the Corruptions of Information Power (1998), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)
• Defence Handbook for Journalists and Bloggers on Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Information Principles in International Law (2015), by Thomson Reuters Foundation, Reporters Without Borders, and Paul Hastings LLP, ed. by Prisca Orsonneau and Paul Coppin (PDF with commentary at trust.org)
• Open Government Data (revised June 2012), by Joshua Tauberer (illustrated HTML with commentary at opengovdata.io)
• The Open Revolution: Rewriting the Rules of the Information Age (London: A/E/T Press, c2018), by Rufus Pollock (PDF and Epub with commentary at openrevolution.net)
• Man's Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof (New York: Columbia University, ca. 1954), by Mark Van Doren, contrib. by Richard R. Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ethical Programs: Hospitality and the Rhetorics of Software (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by James J. Brown (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• Lessons From the Identity Trail: Anonymity, Privacy and Identity in a Networked Society (2009), ed. by Ian Kerr, Valerie M. Steeves, and Carole Lucock (PDF files with commentary at idtrail.org)
• Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, by Noam Chomsky (HTML at zcomm.org)
• Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (second edition, 2006; with link to wiki updates of 1999 edition), by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at codev2.cc)

• 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)

• Chile, Progress Stalled: Setbacks in Freedom of Expression Reform (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2001), by Sebastian Brett (HTML with commentary at hrw.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)
• China's Censorship of the Internet and Social Media, the Human Toll and Trade Impact: Hearing Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, First Session, November 17, 2011 (Washington: GPO, 2012), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (page images at HathiTrust)

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