Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Knox, E.J.M. (2024). Embodiment, endorsement, and policy: Considerations for intellectual freedom in the library. Information & Culture, 59(2), 109-124.

• Knox, E.J.M. (2020). Intellectual freedom and social justice: Tensions between core values in librarianship. Open Information Sciences. 4(1). doi.org/10.1515/opis-2020-0001

• Knox, E.J.M. (2019). Silencing stories: Challenges to diverse books. International Journal for Information, Diversity & Inclusion, 3(2). doi:10.33137/ijidi.v3i2.32592.

• Knox, E.J.M. & Oltmann, S. (2018). Social responsibility, censorship, and the ALA: The 2015 Banned Books Week poster controversy. Library Quarterly, 88(1), 5-22. 

• Darch, P. & Knox, E.J.M. (2017). Ethical perspectives on data and software sharing in the sciences: A research agenda. Library & Information Science Research, 39(4), 295-302.

• Peterson, C., Oltmann, S. & Knox, E.J.M. (2017). The cultural work of internet filters: A case study of implementing web censorship in Alabama public schools & libraries. International Journal of Communication, 11, 4583–4609 .

• Knox, E.J.M. (2017). Indoctrination and common sense interpretation of texts: The Tucson Unified School District book banning. Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy, 2(2), 11-23.

• Oltmann, S., Peterson, C. & Knox, E.J.M. (2017).  Analyzing challenges to library materials: An incomplete picture. Public Library Quarterly, 36(3).

• Knox, E.J.M. (2014). Society, institutions, and common sense: Themes in the discourse of challengers in 21st century United States. Library & Information Science Research, 36(3-4), 171-178.

• Knox, E.J.M. (2014). Intellectual freedom and the agnostic-postmodernist view of reading effects. Library Trends, 63(1).

• Knox, E.J.M. (2014). The books will still be in the library: Narrow definitions of censorship in the discourse of challengers. Library Trends, 62(4).

• Knox, E.J.M. (2014). Supporting intellectual freedom: Symbolic capital and practical philosophy in librarianship. The Library Quarterly, 84(1), 8-21.

• Knox, E. (2007). “How One Part-Time Library Staff Member Can Provide Interlibrary Loan Service.” Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve, 17(4), 87-94.

Selected Book Chapters

• Knox, E.J.M. (2022). Censorship and children’s literature. Karen Coats & Deborah Stevenson (Eds.) A companion to children’s literature. New York, NY: Blackwell.

• Knox, E.J.M. (2021). Agility in an age of information ubiquity: Freedom of expression and information policy. In Duff, A.S. (Ed.) Research Handbook on Information Policy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

• Knox, E.J.M. (2020). Ethics. In M. Wong and L. Saunders (Eds.), Reference and Information Services (6th ed.) (pp. 27-49). Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.

• Knox, E.J.M., Oltmann, S.M. & Peterson, C. (2019). Designing research using FOI requests in the USA. Kevin Walby (Ed.) Freedom of Information and Social Science Research Design. New York, NY: Routledge.

• Knox, E.J.M. (2019). Information access. In Burgess, J.T.F. and Knox, E.J.M (Eds.), Foundations of Information Ethics. (pp. 37-46). Chicago, IL: American Library Association.

  Knox, E. (2014). Religion and intellectual freedom. In M. Alfino & L. Koltutsky (Eds.). Handbook of Intellectual Freedom. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press. [Pre-print manuscript-PDF]

• Knox, E. (2013). The challengers of West Bend: An institutional approach. In L.S. Robbins & C. Pawley (Eds.) Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.[Pre-print manuscript-PDF]

Invited Publications

• Knox, E.J.M. (2021, September/October). LIS and the Next Crisis: Learn from COVID-19 to plan for the future. American Libraries. https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2021/09/01/lis-education-the-next-crisis/

• Dapier, J. and Knox, E. (2020, July 8.) When not to call the cops: A plea to protect Black patrons. American Libraries. https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2020/07/08/rethinking-when-   to-call-the-cops/

• Knox, E.J.M. (2020). Books, censorship, and anti-intellectualism in schools. Phi Delta Kappan, 101(7): https://kappanonline.org/books-censorship-anti-intellectualism-schools-knox/

• Knox, E.J.M. (2017). Opposing censorship in difficult times. The Library Quarterly, 87(3), 268-276. [LQ Opposing Censorship]

• Other Publications
  Knox, E.J.M. (2016, September 28). Banned books are often diverse books. Check the stats. School Library Journal.

• Knox, E.J.M. (2015, September 30). Study to explore link between book challenges and diverse books. School Library Journal.