Vertical research files maintained in the Archives include:

• papers and reports prepared by students in the Haliburton-centered bioregionalism course;
• research papers of a more general nature by faculty and students, particularly students in applied history classes such as HIST 475;
• three boxes of vertical files relating to National and Provincial Parks created by Professors Douglas Pimlott and Paul Aird;
• an extensive collection of books which relate to the organized youth camping movement which may be consulted in the reading room;
• records and reports relating to the Trent University Nature Areas;
• Professor John Wadland vertical research files on many topics; files compiled from the early 1970s to early 1990s