''ICOM's archive is held at is offices. The papers comprise minutes of the General Council and its various committees and working parties since ICOM's incorporation in 1978, and an incomplete series of the minutes of both DEMINTRY and the unincorporated ICOM. In addition there are annual reports (for most years); research reports on legal, financial and training matters affecting co-operatives; financial records since the late 1970s; correspondence files arranged according to topic, specific project or originating organisation, and files regarding the incorporation of over 2000 individual co-operatives. It should be understood that much of the material, being of a commercial nature, is confidential but persons conducting research in the interests of the co-operative movement may apply to ICOM at the above address.'' C. Cook, The Routledge Guide to British Political Archives, 2006 and Cook & Waller, Sources in Contemporary British History, vol 1, 1994.

Records of the Association for the Democratic Integration of Industry (DEMINTRY) (a predecessor organisation of the ICOM) are held at Scott Bader Company Ltd. The records (ref EB; NRA 27758 Bader, dates c1957-71) consist of agendas, minutes, reports, correspondence and papers -see NRA record.

The collection 'Co-operative and Industrial Common Ownership Movement ephemera re Leeds' (cat ref ACC 4279) is held at West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds -see online catalogue.

Records relating to ICOM are among the collection 'The Records of Sunflower Wholefoods Co-operative Ltd, 103 Castle Road Bedford (1978-1996)' held at Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service -see online catalogue.

Records of the Industrial Common Ownership Act are held in the collection 'House of Lords' (ref HL/PO/PU/1/1972 - HL/PO/PU/1/1992; date 1976) are held in the Parliamentary Archives.