The IDRC Library maintains the Archives of IDRC research and corporate outputs to ensure continuing access to the Centre's accumulated knowledge assets.  All final research reports of IDRC projects as well as documents, books, articles, speeches, and videos produced by IDRC and IDRC staff are collected and made available through the IDRC Digital Library,  IDL,  IDRC's open access repository of research results and documents.  Many reports and documents are available in full text.

The complete electronic archive of the magazine, IDRC Reports, is also available.  IDRC Reports is written for a non-technical audience about IDRC research projects and other development issues.  Search the IDRC Digital Library,  IDL to retrieve past and current issues.

The story of the history of IDRC from its conception through its early years is told in a collection of archival documents titled IDRC - The Beginnings.