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The 1996 January-February (volume II, number 1) issue of 'Cambodia Report', a publication by the Preah Sihanouk Raj Academy, for which Collins worked as Senior Researcher from 1995 to 1997. This issue contains extracts from several fields reports by the research teams at the Academy, written as part of the Interdisciplinary Research on Ethnic Groups in Cambodia (IREGC) project. Collins was the Research Coordinator of the IREGC project and co-editor for this issue, which features his article entitled 'Relations between the Cham and the Cambodian Highlanders'.

A typed manuscript of the Master’s thesis of Collins. Entitled "An Investigation into the Division of the Chams in Two Regions", it explores the Cham people in Indochina. The thesis was submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Asian Studies, in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966. The thesis is 77 pages and is preceded by the title, dedication and index pages.

Digital material relating to the ‘Access to Justice’ project in East Timor, implemented by The Asia Foundation (TAF), for which Collins served as the Country Director in East Timor from 2002 to 2003, and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The material includes:

• ‘TAF-USAID East Timor Access To Justice Project Narrative’: a word document in three parts outlining the challenges and opportunities, strategy and approach as well as proposed activities and expected results of the project
• ‘TAF East Timor Legal Glossary’: a spreadsheet containing legal terminologies in Indonesian, with parallel translations in English and Portuguese. This document is developed in connection to the project, as a resource for legal professionals and as the basis of a subsequent East Timor legal dictionary. See the narrative document for more details.

A self-published work by William Augustus Collins, entitled 'Wander Years: A Memoir of Travel from 1961 to 1964'. The memoir is 286 pages long and is a personal account of the author's travels in Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Australia and the Pacific during his formative years. A digital copy of the memoir is available in PDF.

These papers consist of a memoir of William Augustus Collins, as well as a number of his publications, research papers and reports relating to his work in Southeast Asia. The majority of the material relates to Cambodia, where Collins was involved in various social, educational and legal support programmes and projects. A small part of the digital material concerns a project aiming at improving access to justice in East Timor.

Reports and discussion papers (mostly draft versions) written by Collins for various social, educational and legal programmes and projects in Cambodia, including:

• Preliminary assessment report entitled ‘Dynamics of Dispute Resolution and Administration of Justice for Cambodian Villagers’, 1 digital file, dated 1997
• Discussion paper entitled ‘Grassroots Civil Society in Cambodia’, 1 digital file, dated 1998
• Draft report entitled ‘Local Planning Process: Reinforcing Civil Society – Case Studies from Battambang’, 1 digital file, dated 1999
• Report entitled ‘Seeking Health Services from Medical Practitioners and Traditional Healers: A Case Study from Kampong Chhnang, Cambodia’, 1 digital file, dated 1999
• Inception report for the National Scholarships Programme, supported by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction and written for the UNICEF Programme Management Consultancy, 1 digital file, dated 2004
• Report entitled ‘A Study of Cambodian Folktales Related to Justice’, 1 digital file, dated 2005
• Draft discussion paper on four scholarship programmes supported by the Cambodian government’s Priority Action Programme, Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction, Belgian Technical Co-operation and the Cambodia Education Sector Support Programme, 1 digital file, dated 2006
• Draft final reports on Belgian Technical Co-operation’s school building project and its scholarship programme, with survey results, 3 digital files, dated from 2006 to 2007
• Report for the Education for All Mid-Decade Assessment 2000-2005 in Cambodia, 8 digital files, dated 2007
• Draft impact reports and a project completion report on the 2005 and 2006 editions of the 'Targeted Assistance for Education of Poor Girls and Children in Ethnic Minority Areas' project, supported by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction, 3 digital files, dated 2005 to 2007
• Report on the mid-term evaluation of the education programme by the Cambodia office of Save the Children International, 1 digital file, dated 2013
• End-of-project performance evaluation of the Improved Basic Education in Cambodia project, funded by the United States Agency for International Development, 1 digital file, dated 2014
• Baseline study report and final evaluation of the 'Fighting discrimination and violence in schools - for inclusive and child friendly quality education' project, implemented by Save the Children in Cambodia and funded by IKEA foundation, 2 digital files, one undated and one dated 2015

Draft publication entitled 'The Muslims of Cambodia', which explores the early and modern history of the Cambodian Muslim community, their ethnic and religious identity, as well as the ethnic relations among Cham, Vietnamese and Khmer in Cambodia after World War II. The document is 122 pages long and a digital version is available in PDF. The report was later published in 'Ethnic Groups of Cambodia' by the Center for Advanced Study in Phnom Penh in 2009.