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• Measurement of Science: Study of the Development of Science as an Information Process (edited machine translation from Russian; 1971), by V. V. Nalimov and Z. M. Mul'chenko, ed. by Robert D. Hill (linked PDF files here at Penn)
• Data Science at the Command Line (free online edition; originally published 2014), by Jeroen Janssens (illustrated HTML at datascienceatthecommandline.com)
• Metalibrarianship: A Model for Intellectual Foundations of Library Science, by Joseph Z. Nitecki (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Nitecki Trilogy, by Joseph Z. Nitecki (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Essays of an Information Scientist (15 volumes), by Eugene Garfield (PDF files here at Penn)

• ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science (c2013), by Joan M. Reitz (HTML with commenary at abc-clio.com)

• Information Research (full serial archives)
• Information Technology and Libraries (partial serial archives)
• Brazilian Journal of Information Science (in English and Portuguese; 2006-) (partial serial archives)
• Information (information science and technology journal; Basel: MDPI AG, 2010-) (full serial archives)
• Informing Science (1998-) (full serial archives)
• Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (partial serial archives)
• JLIS.it: Italian Journal of Library and Information Science (with articles in Italian and English; 2010-) (full serial archives)
• Webology (2004-) (full serial archives)
• Annals of Library and Information Studies (open access from 2002-) (partial serial archives)
• LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research e-Journal (issues online 1996-) (partial serial archives)
• Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research (2006-) (full serial archives)
• American Documentation (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, by American Society for Information Science and Technology (partial serial archives)
• Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries (with some volumes of predecessor title Pakistan Journal of Library and Information Science) (partial serial archives)

• Philosophical Aspects of Library Information Science in Retrospect, by Joseph Z. Nitecki (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Quantitative Science Studies (full serial archives)

• Bioinformatics in Tropical Disease Research: A Practical and Case-Study Approach (2008), ed. by Arthur Gruber, Alan M. Durham, Chong Huynh, and Hernando A. del Portillo (illustrated HTML at NIH)
• Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes (c2011), by Jason Brownlee
  • PDF at Github
  • PDF with commentary at Github
• The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction (second edition, 2009), by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and J. H. Friedman (PDF with commentary at Stanford)

• Documentarity: Evidence, Ontology, and Inscription (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2019), by Ronald E. Day (HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
• Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays From the Sawyer Seminar (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), ed. by Francis X. Blouin and William G. Rosenberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Das Rückwärtseinschneiden im Raum (dissertation in German; Zürich: A.-G. Gebr. Leemann und Co., 1933), by Gustav Volkart (PDF at ETH Zurich)

• Digital Images in Education: Realising the Vision (London: JISC Collections, 2007), ed. by Leona Carpenter and Caren Milloy (PDF files with commentary at JISC Collections)
• Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files (2000), by Gail M. Hodge (PDF at clir.org)
• Introduction to Metadata (online edition 3.0, 2008), ed. by Murtha Baca, contrib. by Tony Gill, Anne Gilliland, Maureen Whalen, and Mary S. Woodley (HTML with commentary at getty.edu)

• Shareveillance: The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), by Clare Birchall (multiple formats with commentary at umn.edu)
• ICT Policy Formulation and E-Strategy Development: A Comprehensive Guidebook (2005), by Richard Labelle (PDF at apdip.net)
• ICT Policies and E-Strategies in the Asia-Pacific: A Critical Assessment of the Way Forward (2004), ed. by Phet Sayo, James George Chacko, and Gopi Pradhan (PDF at apdip.net)

• The Network Reshapes the Library: Lorcan Dempsey on Libraries, Services, and Networks (Chicago: ALA Editions, 2014), by Lorcan Dempsey, ed. by Kenneth J. Varnum (PDF with commentary at oclc.org)
• Open at the Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education, ed. by Maha Bali, Catherine Cronin, Laura Czerniewicz, Robin DeRosa, and Rajiv Jhangiani (multiple formats at rebus.community)

• Learning Data Science (c2023), by Sam Lau, Joseph Gonzalez, and Deborah Ann Nolan (illustrated HTML with commentary at learningds.org)
• Introduction to Information Retrieval (prepublication version; 2008), by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze (HTML and PDF with commentary at Stanford)
• Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files (2000), by Gail M. Hodge (PDF at clir.org)
• Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies: Terminology for Art, Architecture, and Other Cultural Works (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2010), by Patricia Harpring (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Hands-On Data Visualization: Interactive Storytelling From Spreadsheets to Code (open-access web edition; 2021), by Jack Dougherty and Ilya Ilyankou (illustrated HTML an handsondataviz.org)
• Data Visualization in Society (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2020), ed. by Martin Engebretsen and Helen Kennedy (PDF files with commentary at aup.nl and JSTOR)
• Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History (Blacksburg, VA: VT Publishing, 2018), ed. by E. Thomas Ewing and Katherine Randall (multiple formats with commentary at VT Publishing)
• Introduction to Data Science: Data Analysis and Prediction Algorithms With R (Creative Commons online edition, 2021), by Rafael A. Irizarry (illustrated HTML with commentary at github.uio)
• The Data Journalism Handbook (electronic first edition, c2012), ed. by Liliana Bounegru, Lucy Chambers, and Jonathan Gray (illustrated HTML with commentary at datajournalismhandbook.org)
• The Data Journalism Handbook 2: Towards a Critical Data Practice (online edition, ca. 2021), ed. by Jonathan Gray and Liliana Bounegru (illustrated HTML with commentary at datajournalism.com)
• Introduction to Cultural Analytics and Python (c2021), by Melanie Walsh (interactive illustrated HTML at github.io)
• digitalSTS: A Field Guide for Science and Technology Studies (Princeton: Princeton University Press, c2019), ed. by Janet Vertesi and David Ribes (PDF files and multimedia with commentary at digitalsts.net)
• D3.js Tips and Tricks, by Malcolm Maclean (JavaScript-dependent illustrated HTML at leanpub.com)

• Fundamentals of Clinical Data Science (Cham: Springer Open, c2019), ed. by Pieter Kubben, Michel Dumontier, and A. L. A. J. Dekker (multiple formats at Springer Link)
• Bringing Health Care Online: The Role of Information Technologies (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Health Data in the Information Age: Use, Disclosure, and Privacy (1994), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Research, c2009), ed. by Anthony J. G. Hey, Stewart Tansley, and Kristin Michele Tolle (PDF files with commentary at Microsoft)

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