• Do beome familiar with your subject matter.
• Do take archaeology and ethnology courses.
• Do consult the experts.
• Do use a microscope.
• Do include good color illustrations in your reports.
• Do join the Society of Bead Researchers.

• Don’t believe everything you read or hear.
• Don’t ask questions which can be answered with a yes or no.
• Don’t buy archaeological specimens.

Volumes presently available include:

Volume 1 (1989)

• A Study of the Beads from an 18th-19th-Century Burial Site in Senegal, West Africa, by Marie-José and Howard Opper
• Beads of the Early Islamic Period, by Peter Francis, Jr.
• Beads as Chronological Indicators in West African Archaeology: A Reexamination, by Christopher DeCorse
• The Beads of St. Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles, by Karlis Karklins and Norman F. Barka
• Bohemian Glass Beadmaking: Translation and Discussion of a 1913 German Technical Article, by Lester A. Ross with Barbara Pflanz

Volume 2 (1990)

• Observations and Problems in Researching the Contemporary Glass-Bead Industry in Northern China, by Roderick Sprague
• Beadmaking in Islam: The African Trade and the Rise of Hebron, by Peter Francis, Jr.
• Trade Beads from Hudson's Bay Company Fort Vancouver (1829-1860), Vancouver, Washington, by Lester A. Ross
• Dominique Bussolin on the Glass-Bead Industry of Murano and Venice (1847), by Karlis Karklins with Carol F. Adams
• Perforated Prehistoric Ornaments of Curaçao and Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles, by Jay B. Haviser

Beads 3 (1991)

• The Mohawk Glass Trade Bead Chronology: ca. 1560-1785, by Donald A. Rumrill
• French Beadmaking: An Historic Perspective Emphasizing the 19th and 20th Centuries, by Marie-José and Howard Opper
• The Beads from Oudespost I, A Dutch East India Company Outpost, Cape, South Africa, by Karlis Karklins and Carmel Schrire
• L'Impiraressa: The Venetian Bead Stringer, by Irene Ninni, translated by Lucy Segatti

Beads 4 (1992)

• The Beads of Cameroon, by Pierre Harter, translated by Howard Opper
• The Beads of Roman and Post-Medieval Antwerpen, Belgium, by Karlis Karklins and Tony Oost
• Beads in the Lives of the Peoples of Southern Togo, West Africa, by Pascale Nourisson, translated by Pierre Nadon
• On the Date of the Copper Age in the United States, by A. Morlot
• Identifying Beads Used in the 19th-Century Central East Africa Trade, by Karlis Karklins

Beads 5 (1993)

• In Memoriam: Kenneth E. Kidd, 1906-1994, by Jamie Hunter and Karlis Karklins
• Gold-Glass Beads: A Review of the Evidence, by Maud Spaer
• The A Speo Method of Heat Rounding Drawn Glass Beads and its Archaeological Manifestations, by Karlis Karklins
• Powdered-Glass Beads and Bead Trade in Mauritania, by Marie-José Opper and Howerd Opper
• Lun Bawang Beads, by Heidi Munan

Beads 6 (1994)

• Beads from the African Burial Ground, New York City: A Preliminary Assessment, by Cheryl J. LaRoche
• European Beads from Spanish-Colonial Lamanai and Tipu, Belize, by Marvin T. Smith, Elizabeth Graham, and David M. Pendergast
• A Possible Beadmaker's Kit from North America's Lake Superior Copper District, by Susan R. Martin
• Toward a Social History of Beadmakers, by Peter Francis, Jr.

Beads 7 (1995)

• Prosperity, Reverence and Protection: An introduction to Asian Beadwork, by Valerie Hector
• Merovingian Beads on the Lower Rhine, by Frank Siegmund; translated by C.J. Bridger
• Social Status Gradations Expressed in the Beadwork Patterns of Sarawak's Orang Ulu, by Heidi Munan
• The Beads of Tenth- to Twelfth-Century Hungary, by Katalin Szilágyi; translated by Don Haines

Beads 8-9 (1996-1997)

• Beads Among the Juang of India, by Alok Kumar Kanungo
• Akyem Te: The Technology and Socio-Cultural Setting of the Abompe Bauxite-Beadmaking Industry, Ghana, by Yaw Bredwa-Mensah
• Imitation Pearls in France, by Marie-José Opper and Howard Opper
• A Hoard of Stone Beads near Lake Chad, Nigeria, by Graham Connah
• Beads, Pendants and Buttons from Early Historic Creek Contexts at the Tarver Sites, Georgia, by Thomas J. Pluckhahn

Beads 10-11 (1998-1999)

• Dressed to Kill: Jade Beads and Pendants in the Maya Lowlands, by David M. Pendergast
• Stone Beads and their Imitations, by Robert K. Liu
• Melanau Bead Culture: A Vanishing World?, by Heidi Munan
• A History of Gem Beadmaking in Idar-Oberstein, by Si Frazier, Ann Frazier, and Glenn Lehrer
• A Brief History of Drills and Drilling, by A. John Gwinnett and Leonard Gorelick
• Venetian Beads, by Frank Hird
• Progress and Problems in Recent Trade Bead Research, by Richard G. Conn

Beads 12-13 (2000-2001)

• Annamese Orders: Precious Metal, Tassels, and Beads, by John Sylvester, Jr.
• Stone Beads and Sealstones from the Mycenaean Tholos Tomb at Nichoria, Greece, by Nancy C. Wilkie
• Identifying Sources of Prehistoric Turquoise in North America: Problems and Implications for Interpreting Social Organization, by Frances Joan Mathien
• Man-in-the-Moon Beads, by Michele Lorenzini and Karlis Karklins
• The Stone Bead Industry of Southern India, by Peter Francis, Jr.
• The Krobo and Bodom, by Kirk Stanfield

Beads 14 (2002)

• In Memoriam: Peter Francis, Jr., 1945-2002, by Karlis Karklins
• Beadwork of Hungary and Transylvania, by Robin Atkins
• A Brief Biography of Giovanni Giacomuzzi: Artist and Glassmaker, by Vincenzo Zanetti; translated by Lucy Segatti
• The Giacomuzzi Bead Sample Book and Folders, by Karlis Karklins
• Late Neolithic Amber Beads and Pendants from the Lake Lubans Wetlands, Latvia, by Ilze Biruta Loze

Beads 15 (2003)

• Two Centuries of Iroquois Beadwork, by Dolores N. Elliott
• Beads in the Straits Settlements: Trade and Domestic Demand, 1827-1937, by Hwei-Fe’n Cheah
• Bohemian Faceted-Spheroidal Mold-Pressed Glass Bead Attributes: Hypothesized Terminus Post Quem Dates for the 19th Century, by Lester A. Ross
• Birds, Beasts, and Botanicals: Organic Beads and Pendants from the Amazon Basin, by Deborah G. Harding
• Early Upper Paleolithic Ornaments from Üçağizli Cave, Turkey, by Mary C. Stiner and Steven L. Kuhn

Beads 16 (2004)

• Precious Red Coral: Markets and Meanings by Susan J. Torntore
• Bead Making at Murano and Venice, by B. Harvey Carroll, Jr. with Jamey D. Allen
• The Levin Catalogue of Mid-19th-Century Beads, by Karlis Karklins
• Incised Dentalium Shell Beads in the Plateau Culture Area, by Roderick Sprague

Beads 17 (2005) - delayed

Beads 18 (2006)

• Classification and Nomenclature of Beads and Pendants, by Horace C. Beck

Beads 19 (2007) - delayed