SEC Historical Society virtual museum

The SEC Historical Society's virtual museum and archive is an open door to the history of the regulation of the capital market system from the 20th century to the present. Its collection is built and exhibited independent of any oversight from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Founded in 1999, the SEC Historical Society is a non-profit organization and receives no funding from the public sector. Read the Society's most recent Annual Report.



The museum and archive's comprehensive collection includes:

• Timeline: Linking regulatory developments against U.S. and world events from 1930 to the present.
• Galleries: A unique search function within the museum, providing an alternate way to access all museum material on a particular subject. Current Galleries look at insider trading, international financial regulation and eras in SEC history.
• Papers: Letters, speeches, memos, telegrams and reports, many not accessible through other online sources.
• Photos: Historic and current images of people significant to financial regulation.
• Oral Histories: Remembrances, available in audio, MP3 and edited transcript formats, from people who helped create and continue to shape the financial regulatory system.
• Programs: A variety of original programs - including Fireside Chats, the Society's Annual Meeting, The Best of NERA, etc. - offering historic perspective on current regulatory issues. Broadcast live on www.sechistorical.org, and preserved in audio, MP3 and edited transcript formats.

University of Mississippi Libraries - Digital Accounting Collection

The University of Mississippi Libraries - Digital Accounting Collection contains several discrete collections, including the AICPA’s noncurrent exposure drafts and noncurrent Codes of Professional Conduct, a group of accounting pamphlets spanning the 20th century, a list of items donated by Peter McMickle, and a small collection of art and photographs. Many are full-text, while others are in bibliographic citation form only. The Academy of Accounting Historians has kindly given permission to publish the Accounting Historians Journal and the Accounting Historians Notebook.

The Global Accounting Digital Archive Network

The Global Accounting Digital Archive Network (GADAN) combines many sources of freely available digital information and archives related to accounting in various parts of the world. Initiated as a joint project of the American Accounting Association and the European Accounting Association, in collaboration with organizations and academics from many parts of the world, this on-going effort aims to assemble links to useful accounting archives.

Overview of the World Digital Library (WDL)

Launched to the international public in April 2009, the World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. The principal objectives of the WDL are to: promote international and intercultural understanding; expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet; provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences; and build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries. The WDL can be browsed by place, time, topic, type of item and institution.

Angelo Bruno Business Library - seamless access to digital information services

The state-of-the-art Angelo Bruno Business Library serves over 300,000 visitors each year, which represents use by students, faculty, staff and others from the University of Alabama and beyond. The 64,000 square foot facility also houses the Sloan Y. Bashinsky Sr. Computer Center. Combining business library services and business computer laboratory services in the same facility provides seamless access to digital information services. The Bruno Library's information resources comprise a wide variety of online computer databases and over 180,000 volumes, including hundreds of business periodicals. It is a fully computer-networked environment offering enhanced access to information sources including a historical collection of corporate annual reports dating from the late nineteenth century and a dozen Amazon Kindle e-book readers  pre-loaded with popular business books.

A digital review of the history of the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC)

The website of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) provides an overview of its predecessor, the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) which operated from 1973 until 2001. It states that the IASC was founded in June 1973 as a result of an agreement by accountancy bodies in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Ireland, and the United States. The overview information has been supplemented for events between June 1998 and December 2005.

Other digital sources include Deloitte IAS Plus which presents the International Accounting Standards Committee History – 1973 to March 2001. It also presents a Chronology setting out the pre-1973 Events Leading to Formation of IASC and continuing to 2010. Additional background information on the IASC is available at Wikipedia and in the 2007 publication Financial Reporting and Global Capital Markets. A History of the IASC 1973-2000 by Camfferman and Zeff. Excerpts from this publication can be read online at Google Books.