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• The Insider Guide to Policy Experts and Organizations (current electronic edition), by Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.) (frame-dependent searchable HTML at heritage.org)

• Building the Third Sector: Latin America's Private Research Centers and Nonprofit Development (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1996), by Daniel C. Levy (page images at Pitt)

• The Research Universities and Their Patrons (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), by Robert M. Rosenzweig (HTML at UC Press)

• RAND and the Information Evolution: A History in Essays and Vignettes (2008), by Willis H. Ware (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Garden Learning: A Study on European Botanic Gardens' Collaborative Learning Processes (London: Ubiquity Press, 2015), by Suzanne Kapelari (PDF at Ubiquity Press)

• Hortus Eastensis: or, A Catalogue of Exotic Plants Cultivated in the Botanic Garden, in the Mountains of Liguanea, in the Island of Jamaica (revised edition; St. Jago de la Vega: Printed by A. Aikman, 1794), by Arthur Broughton (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• La Libraria del Doni Fiorentino, Divisa in Tre Trattati (in Italian; Venice: G. G. de Ferrari, 1557), by Anton Francesco Doni (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Seconda Libraria del Doni: Al Signor Ferrante Caraffa, Ristampata Nouamente con Giunta de Molti Libri (in Italian; Venice: F. Marcolini, 1555), by Anton Francesco Doni (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Year Book of the Round Table Club, A.D. MDCCCCVII (1907), by Round Table Club (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Discourses on Public Occasions in America (second edition; London: Printed for A. Millar et al., 1762), by William Smith (page images here at Penn)

• Bulletin of the American Art Union (partial serial archives)
• Transactions of the American Art-Union (partial serial archives)

• Minerva (German-language annual) (partial serial archives)
• The Museum Journal (partial serial archives)
• The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science, and Art (full serial archives)
• The Canadian Journal of Science, Literature and History (full serial archives)

• Learned Publishing (partial serial archives)

• Ljetopis Jugoslavenske Akademije Znanosti i Umjetnosti (full serial archives)

• 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

• A Booklist for Penal Institution Libraries: Books Published From July 1948 to June 1950 (New York: American Prison Association, ca. 1950), by American Correctional Association Committee on Institution Libraries, ed. by Edwin I. Friedman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 1000 Books for Prison Libraries, 1936-1939 (St. Paul: Dawson-Patterson, printers, 1939), by Mildred Louise Methven and American Correctional Association Committee on Institution Libraries (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rethinking the Future of the University (1998), ed. by David Lyle Jeffrey and Dominic Manganiello (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
• Handbook of British, Continental and Canadian Universities, With Special Mention of the Courses Open to Women (New York: Macmillan, 1899), ed. by Isabel Maddison (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Like Nobody's Business: An Insider's Guide to How US University Finances Really Work (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by Andrew C. Comrie (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Pursuit of Knowledge: A Discussion of Freedom and Compulsion in Education (1934), by Stephen Leacock (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Castells in Africa: University and Development (Cape Town: African Minds, 2017), ed. by Johan Muller, Nico Cloete, and François Van Schalkwyk, contrib. by Manuel Castells (PDF at Project MUSE)

• Universities in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2019), by Jan Surman (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• The Western University on Trial (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), ed. by John W. Chapman (HTML at UC Press)

• Valences of Interdisciplinarity: Theory, Practice, Pedagogy (c2012), ed. by Raphael Foshay (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• A General Idea of the College of Mirania, With a Sketch of the Method of Teaching Science and Religion, in the Several Classes; and Some Account of its Rise, Establishment and Buildings (New York: J. Parker and W. Weyman, 1753), by William Smith
  • HTML at Evans TCP
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images here at Penn

• A Blow at the Root: or, An Attempt to Prove, that No Time Ever Was, or Very Probably Ever Will Be, So Proper and Convenient as the Present, for Introducing a Further Reformation into our National Church, Universities, and Schools (London: Printed for A. Tozer, 1749), by Aaron Tozer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Chelsea Miya, Oliver Rossier, and Geoffrey Rockwell (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Faculty as Global Learners: Off-Campus Study at Liberal Arts Colleges (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2020), by Joan Gillespie, Lisa Jasinski, and Dana Lynn Gross (multiple formats with commentary at Lever Press)

• Big Business and the American University (New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1966), by Bettina Aptheker (frame-dependent HTML at cdlib.org)

• The Rise and Progress of Negro Colleges in Georgia, 1865-1949 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1951), by Willard Range (PDF at Georgia)

• Manifesto for the Humanities: Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Sidonie Smith (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• A Study of the Graduate Schools of America (Oxford, OH: Miami University, ca. 1925), by Raymond M. Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Enactments in Parliament, Specially Concerning the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the Colleges and Halls Therein and the Colleges of Winchester, Eton and Westminster (4 volumes, 1912), by Great Britain Parliament, ed. by Lionel Lancelot Shadwell
  • Volume I (37 Edward III - 13 Anne): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1 George I - 11 George IV): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (11 George IV - 32 Victoria): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (32 Victoria - 2 George V, with Appendices): multiple formats at archive.org

• The Rise of Universities (1923), by Charles Homer Haskins (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries, by James J. Walsh (illustrated HTML at Notre Dame)

• Too Much College: or, Education Eating Up Life; With Kindred Essays in Education and Humour (c1939), by Stephen Leacock (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• College Days (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1923), by Stephen Leacock
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Town Planning Towards City Development: A Report to the Durbar of Indore (2 volumes; Indore: Holkar state printing press, 1918), by Patrick Geddes
  • both parts: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Part I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Higher Education and the State: An Address Delivered Before the Fortnightly Club of Bloomington, Indiana (ca. 1898), by Joseph Swain (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Study in Holland: A Guide for Prospective Students (second edition; New York: Netherlands Information Bureau, 1961), by Hans Koning (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Minerva (German-language annual) (partial serial archives)
• The College Courant (full serial archives)
• Banta's Greek Exchange (partial serial archives)

• The Idea of a University, by John Henry Newman
  • Gutenberg multiple formats
  • HTML at newmanreader.org

• Open Knowledge Institutions: Reinventing Universities (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2021), by Lucy Montgomery, John Hartley, Cameron Neylon, Malcolm Gillies, Eve Horwitz Gray, Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Chun-Kai Huang, Joan Leach, Jason Potts, Xiang Ren, Katherine Skinner, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, and Katie Wilson (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• A General Idea of the College of Mirania, With a Sketch of the Method of Teaching Science and Religion, in the Several Classes; and Some Account of its Rise, Establishment and Buildings (New York: J. Parker and W. Weyman, 1753), by William Smith
  • HTML at Evans TCP
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images here at Penn

More items available under broader and related terms at left.