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• Signal Processing for Communications (originally published 2008), by Paolo Prandoni and Martin Vetterli (HTML and PDF with commentary at sp4comm.org)
• Transmission Systems for Communications (2 volumes; New York: Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1959), by Bell Telephone Laboratories (page images at HathiTrust)

• A State Connected: Michigan Libraries and the Public Interest in the Information Superhighway (Lansing, MI: Michigan Library Association, 1997), ed. by Joseph J. Mika (page images at HathiTrust)

• Telecommunication Economics: Selected Results of the COST Action ISO605 Econ@Tel (c2012), ed. by Antonis M. Hadjiantonis and Burkhard Stiller (HTML and PDF files with commentary at SpringerLink)

• Computer Communication Review (articles online 2007-) (partial serial archives)
• Wired (full serial archives)

• D-Lib Magazine (1995-2017) (full serial archives)
• Panlibus Magazine, by Talis (Firm) (full serial archives)

• Current Cites (1990-) (full serial archives)

• Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society (prepublication copy), ed. by Kenneth Dam and Herbert Lin (HTML and page images at NAP)

• Working Against the Tide: COMSEC Monitoring and Analysis (2 parts in 1 file; declassified redacted version (first author identified in other public sources); originally dated 1970), by Donzel E. Betts, Hiram M. Wolfe, Raymond P. Schmidt, and Thomas N. Thompson (PDF at nsa.gov)

• Global Communications: Opportunities for Trade and Aid (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Advanced Network Technology (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Electronic Surveillance in a Digital Age (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Emerging Commercial Mobile Wireless Technology and Standards: Suitable for the Army? (1998), by Phillip M. Feldman (PDF files at rand.org)

• Armed Forces Radio and Television Broadcast Guide (third edition, 1961), by United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Introduction to the New Mainframe: Networking (Poughkeepsie, NY: IBM International Technical Support Organization, c2006), by Mike Ebbers, Christopher Hastings, Matt Nuttall, and Micky Reichenberg (PDF at ibm.com)
• Evolving the High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative to Support the Nation's Information Infrastructure (1995), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Sequential Decoding (research monograph #10; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1961), by John M. Wozencraft and Barney Reiffen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, by Bruce Sterling (Gutenberg text)

• Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Networked Communities (1994), ed. by Dorothy Elizabeth Robling Denning and Herbert Lin (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Information Technology Research, Innovation, and E-Government (2002), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Following the Money: U.S. Finance in the World Economy, by Anne Y. Kester (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Computer Networks: A Systems Approach (free online edition; last updated 2020), by Larry L. Peterson and Bruce S. Davie (HTML with commentary at systemsapproach.org)
• High Performance Browser Networking (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, c2013), by Ilya Grigorik (illustrated HTML with commentary at hpbn.co)
• Introduction to the New Mainframe: Networking (Poughkeepsie, NY: IBM International Technical Support Organization, c2006), by Mike Ebbers, Christopher Hastings, Matt Nuttall, and Micky Reichenberg (PDF at ibm.com)
• City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c1996), by William Mitchell (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Stacks: Interoperability in Today's Computer Networks (c1992), by Carl Malamud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Computer-Based National Information Systems: Technology and Public Policy Issues (1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Embedded, Everywhere: A Research Agenda for Networked Systems of Embedded Computers (2001), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• Your Internet Consultant: The FAQs of Life Online (1994), by Kevin Savetz (HTML at savetz.com)
• The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet (1987), by Ed Krol (Gutenberg text)
• Digital Creativity (London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1996), by Owen Kelly (PDF with commentary at gulbenkian.org.uk)
• Evolving the High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative to Support the Nation's Information Infrastructure (1995), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond (1994), by National Research Council NRENAISSANCE Committee (page images with commentary at NAP)
• High-Performance Computing and Networking for Science: Background Paper (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (Creative Commons-licensed PDF, c2008), by David Bollier (PDF with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols and Practice (online editions), by Olivier Bonaventure (multiple formats in Belgium)
• PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine: A Users' Guide and Tutorial for Networked Parallel Computing, by Al Geist, Adam Beguelin, Jack Dongarra, Weicheng Jiang, Robert Manchek, and Vaidy Sunderam (HTML at netlib.org)
• Trapped in the Net: The Unanticipated Consequences of Computerization, by Gene I. Rochlin (HTML at Princeton)

• Universal Access to E-Mail: Feasibility and Societal Implications (1995), by Robert H. Anderson, Tora K. Bikson, Sally Ann Law, and Bridger M. Mitchell (HTML at rand.org)
• Toward an Ethics and Etiquette for Electronic Mail (1985), by Norman Z. Shapiro and Robert H. Anderson (HTML and PDF with commentary at rand.org)
• Conducting Research Surveys via E-Mail and the Web (2002), by Matthias Schonlau, Ronald D. Fricker, and Marc N. Elliott (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)
• Netiquette (online edition, revised 1997), by Virginia Shea (HTML at albion.com)

• 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)
• Collected Papers of Frederick G. Kilgour, by Frederick G. Kilgour, ed. by Patricia A. Becker, Ann T. Dodson, and Lois L. Yoakam (page images at roytennant.com)

• Machine Learning for Data Streams, With Practical Examples in MOA (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by Albert Bifet, Ricard Gavaldà, Geoffrey Holmes, and Bernhard Pfahringer (HTML with commentary in New Zealand)

• The Transmedia Way: A Storytellers, Communicators and Designers' Guide to the Galaxy (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2017), by Max Giovagnoli (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• HTML5 for Web Designers (c2010), by Jeremy Keith (HTML with commentary at html5forwebdesigners.com)

• Wireless Networking in the Developing World (second edition, 2007), ed. by Rob Flickenger (PDF with commentary at wndw.net)
• Fundamentals of Wireless Communication (2005), by David Tse and Pramod Viswanath (PDF files with commentary at Berkeley)

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