The David P. Gardner Presidential Papers include published articles and speeches from 1967 to 2012. They have been selected primarily from papers held by Special Collections at the University of Utah's Marriott Library and the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

In addition to the publications and speeches in the Gardner Presidential Papers, two books published by David P. Gardner can be accessed on-line:

Earning My Degree: Memoirs of an American University President (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005)

The California Oath Controversy (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967)

The UC Berkeley Center for Studies in Higher Education's official David P. Gardner website includes an annotated professional career timeline linked to the chapters in Earning My Degree.