The Center for Cooperatives at University of California, Davis, was established by the California State Legislature in 1987 as public understanding about the benefits of the cooperative form of business could be greatly improved through a coordinated effort by the University of California and other institutions of higher education to focus on the role of cooperatives in the California economy.  The center was defunded in 2004 and closed in 2007, and now the center's website has finally been taken town.  Many of the center's resources have a new life at the nonprofit California Center for Cooperative Development.  But the materials that weren't set free by the university live on at archive.org from their earliest capture in 1999 to the final capture in 2009.  Many interesting documents are archived, such as

• Steps to Starting a Worker Co-op / Procedimientos para Establecer una Cooperativa de Trabajadores, Zimbelman. Hansen, Coontz, and Malan.  59 pages 1997 
• Cooperando, Worker Ownership Education Project.  51 paginas 1997 
• We Are The Roots: The Organizational Culture of a Home Care Cooperative, Glasser and Brecher.  130 pages 2002
• The WAGES Curriculum: Teachers' Guide to Starting Cooperatives in Low Income Communities (zip file), Morris.  180 pages 1998
• Worker-Owned Plywood Companies of the Pacific Northwest, Craig and Pencavel.  20 pages 1993 
• Creating Jobs Through Cooperative Development, Conover, Molina, and Morris.  64 pages 1993
  The Application of Labor Law to Workers' Cooperatives, Helfman. 21 pages 1992
• Management Recruiting, Development and Retention Practices Among West Coast Consumer and Worker Cooperatives, Green.  24 pages 1993
• Non-Member Equity Instruments for Consumer & Worker Co-ops, Storey.  21 pages 1992
• Projecting the Long-Term Consequences of ESOP vs. Co-op Conversion of a Firm on Employee Benefits and Company Cash, Kaswan.  21 pages 1992  
• Weavers of Dreams: The Origins of the Modern Cooperative Movement, Thompson. 113 pages 1994    
• West Coast Cooperative Directory and Resource Guide, Coontz, Lang and Spatz.  110 pages 1999  
• Perceptions of Cooperatives: What They Mean to California's Cooperative Leaders, Coontz, James, Lang, Ruth, Siebert, Spatz.  68 pages 1995
• Economic Theory of Cooperation (zip file), Emelianoff.  270 pages 1948  
• Thin Cats: The Community Development Credit Union Movement in the United States, Isbister 203 pages   1994
• What Happened to the Berkeley Co-op? A Collection of Opinions, edited by Fullerton.  107 pages 1992