Papers and abstracts
Notes on Dating Photographic Paper, Topics in Photograph Preservation, Volume 11, Spring 2005.
Optical Brightening Agents in Photographic Paper, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, 44:1, 2005.
Authenticity Issues in Photography, International Foundation for Art Research Journal. V.7, #2, 2004. More...

Web resources, authored or co-authored by Paul Messier
VideoPreservation Website Funded by the National Center for the Preservation Training and Technology and hosted by Standard University. August, 2007.
Backprinting on photographic paper - a compendium of manufacturer markings on photographic paper, 2007. More...

Materials from selected lectures
Understanding 20th Century Photographs, Getty Conservation Institute, January 24, 2006
A Methodology For Dating Photographs Relative to 1950. Notes on talk presented at the AIPAD Symposium: Identifying Photographic Paper and Process, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,  July 8, 2001. Another version from the Photographic Materials Group meeting of the American Institute for Conservation, Philadelphia, June 11, 2000. More...