The Official Publications were most often defined by enumeration of holdings at the British Library's two major collections -- the Oriental and India Office Collections (formerly the India Office Library and Records) and the Official Publications Section of the former British Museum, now integrated into Social Policy Information Service at the British Library -- rather than by abstract statements of principle. Some titles were included under the rubric of "Official" even though they were not published by a government body, apparently because they supported the work of governance in the South Asian subcontinent.

• Guide to the Official Publications published by the British Library Reference Division, 1984
• V Class Lists from the India Office Records
• "The Official Publications Collection in IOLR" by John Sims from the Newsletter of the India Office Library and Records
• Introductory matter in Frank Campbell's Index-Catalogue of Indian Official Publications in the Library, British Museum
• Biography of Frank Campbell in Government Publications Review
• Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections (formerly the Oriental and India Office Collections and prior to that, the India Office Library and Records)
• The India Office Records
• Social Science Reading Room, the division at the British Library responsible for current Official Publications

• The British Library Public Catalogue
  • Additions to the then British Museum collection after the 1900 publication of Campbell's Catalogue were noted on cards (the Campbell cards) maintained in the State Paper Room, known at other times as the Official Publications Library. Some, but not all, of the holdings are represented in the British Library Public Catalogue.
  • Cataloging for most India Office Library and Records serials is in the British Library's Humanities and Social Sciences catalogue, but most monographs are not represented.
• South Asia Resources Database at Curtin University

• Scanning and preparation of electronic text under the Digital South Asia Library Pilot Project, a part of the Global Resources Program at the Association of Research Libraries.
• An oral history of the Official Publications of India with John Sims, former Head, European Printed Books at the Oriental and India Office Collections, British Library.