Global Accounting Digital Archive Network: A Basis for Knowledge in the New Millennium

A Joint Project of the American and European Accounting Associations

Digitized Materials: Sources & Collections

• The University of Mississippi Digital Accounting Collection
  (The Accounting Historians Journal complete from 1974 through 2005) The following are available full text, with search engines:
  • The Accounting Historians Journal, 1974-2005
  • 342 noncurrent AICPA exposure drafts, about 13,000 pages
  • About 300 accounting pamphlets, primarily early 20th century
  • 23 historic illustrations and photography
  • The Accounting Historians Notebook (in progress)
  • The Digital Accounting Collection also includes bibliographic records for an additional 33,000 accounting pamphlets of all types; these pamphlets are not digitized
• The Raymond J. Chambers Digital Materials Archive (University of Sydney)
• Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration - Kobe University - Database on Japanese Companies Note: ID and Password needed to access database please contact Hidetoshi Yamaji at yamaji@rieb.kobe-u.ac.jp
• Baruch College, City University of New York, Newman Library (Saxe Lectures in Accounting)
• Google Scholar
• THE CPA JOURNAL (New York State Society of CPAs) Archive: l989-to current date
• Oxford University Library Services.
• Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan: Professor Yasuhi Kawabata's Database of 19th Century German Corporations Protocol: English Language Referencing: Japanese Language Reference, German Language Documents
• Russian Accounting Collection
• THE SEC Historical Society

Archival Information

• The Florida Accounting Archives Collection Catalogue
• Rutgers Accounting Research Directory
• Accounting Hall of Fame
• Advanced Papyrological Information System from Columbia University

Open Source

• FindArticles.com
• [German Language] German University Library Network:
• [German Language] German Institute of Accountants:
• [German Language] Schmalenbach Business Review:
• Professor Robert (Bob) Jensen's "Threads on accounting history"

Commercial URL Listings

• READEX which specializes in HISTORICAL CONTENT
• NEWSBANK (Parent of READEX and broader source supplier)
• SSRN-Accounting Research Network
• JSTOR
• PROQUEST HIGHER EDUCATION
• EBSCO
• GALE THOMSON
• (Korean Language)DBPIA: 540,000 digitized academic articles from 98 journals, including 10 accounting journals
• SA ePublications The Accountant
  note:Username and Password needed to view journals click here for trial access
  (Guide to SA Business and Finance Collections)
• [German Language] WISO: Relevant accounting articles with key word search

General Archiving Materials

• SCORE catalogue (UK collections of printed annual reports)
• Ancient Egyptian sources for the history of accountancy by Stephen Quirke

Digital News Items/Calendar

• Report from Istanbul regarding Turkish Digital Archive Network Activity