In the mid-1970s a group of chemists and chemical engineers came together within IUPAC to exhaustively compile and critically evaluate reports of experimental measurements of solubility primary chemical literature.  Beginning with Volume 1 covering the solubility of helium and neon in 1979 work has continued dealing with a wide array of solubilities of gases, liquids and solids in binary, ternary and higher order systems.  By 2017 a total of 104 volumes had been published and more are in preparation.  Volumes 1-65 were published as hard bound monographs, first by Pergamon Press (volumes 1–53) and later by Oxford University Press (volumes 54–65).  Starting with Volume 66 the series has been published by the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data in cooperation with the US National Institute of Standards and Technology and is now formally known as the IUPAC-NIST Solubility Data Series.  For journal publication some volumes have been divided into parts bringing the total number of publications to 136.