Metals
- National Portait Gallery. British bronze sculpture founders and plaster figure makers, 1800-1980.
- Williams and Dowen. Arms and Armour.History, Conservation and Analysis. Archetype Publications 2021.
- Barclay et al. Caring for metal objects. Government of Canada
- Godfraind et al. Metals: Practical Building Conservation. Historic England 2012
- Historic England 2022. Guidance Note: Church Roof Replacement Using Terne-coated Stainless Steel.
Plastics
- van Oosten, T.B. Properties of Plastics, A guide for conservators, Getty Conservation Institute 2022.
- Walton, D. and Lorimer, P. Polymers (Oxford Chemistry Primers), Oxford University Press 2000.
- Shashoua, Y. Conservation of Plastics-materials science, degradation and preservation, Elsevier 2008.
- Brydson, J.A. Plastics Materials, Butterworth-Heinemann 2017.
- Hahladakis et al. An overview of chemical additives present in plastics In: Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol. 344, 15 February 2018, pp.179-199.
- Polymer Science Learning Center
- Gewert et al. Pathways for degradation of plastic polymers floating in the marine environment, Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2015, 17, 1513–1521
- Thompson et al. Lost at Sea: where is all the plastic? Science 304(5672):838, June 2004
- Shashoua et al. Real time degradation studies on polyurethane household sponges in Danish weather and marine environments, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 184, 2022.
- Conservation Perspectives, Conservation of Plastics, Getty Newsletter Spring 2014.
- A Safe Place-Storage Strategies for Plastics, Conservation Perspectives, The GCI Newsletter, Conservation of Plastics, Volume 29, 1, Spring 2014
- Shashoua et al. The effectiveness of conservation adsorbents at inhibiting degradation of cellulose acetate, ICOM-CC 17th Triennial conference, 15-19 September 2014, paper 1010, International Council of Museums.
- Dyer et al. Reassessment of anoxic storage of ethnographic rubber’, In: Electronic preprints of 16th Triennial Conference, ICOM-CC, Lisbon, Portugal, 19-23 September 2011.
- Shashoua, Y. Freezing the present to preserve the future, The Future of the Twentieth Century-collecting, interpreting and conserving modern materials (eds. Cordelia Rogerson and Paul Garside), published 2006, Second Annual Conference Arts and Humanities Research Board, July 2005, pp. 100-106.
Wood
- Davis et al. Conservation of Severely Deteriorated, Dry Painted Wood: A Case Study from Abydos, Egypt. Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 61:4, 2022, pp. 254-274.
- Jakeset al.Improved understanding of moisture effects on outdoor wood-adhesives bondlines, United States Department of Agriculture 2017.
- Facing the Challenges of Panel Paintings Conservation: Trends, Treatments, and Training, 2011, Eds. Alan Phenix and Sue Ann Chu
- Bartoletti et al., 2020 Facilitating the Conservation Treatment of Eva Hesse’s Addendum Through Practice-Based Research, Including a Comparative Evaluation of Novel Cleaning Systems. Heritage Science 8: 35.
