A large number of books and other publications were published directly by the Publication Division of the Center of Alcohol Studies, or by affiliate publishing institutions–including the world's most frequently cited book on the topic of alcoholism and substance use, The disease concept of alcoholism written by Jellinek, E. M. (1960).

The Monograph Series were published by the Publication Division of the Center of Alcohol Studies at Yale and Rutgers under the editorship of Mark Keller, long-time editor at the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. Most of these books were distributed by College & University Press, New Haven, CT. 

Books in the Monograph Series report the results of alcohol-related research conducted mostly at Rutgers. Standing out thanks to their easily recognizable cover art, these volumes were staples in many substance use library collections. Titles is the series were listed on the back cover of each volume. A few of them have been digitized by the Center of Alcohol Studies Library. Others are available in the Internet Archive or from HathiTrust.

Some of the texts published as books by the Center of Alcohol Studies in the series had previously appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol or served as educational material for the Summer School of Alcohol Studies.