Standards are documented specifications, criteria, rules, guidelines or definitions for products, goods and services. Standards are regarded as agreements. Proper function and safety of products and services is the purpose of standards use.
Keeping of standards specifications is voluntary. If they are incorporated in legislation or regulation documents or harmonized with such documents, standards become obligatory. They are indicated as harmonized standards then.
Standards databases available on web usually are not provided in full text (except subscribed databases).
IHS
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The database allows searching for the technical standarts (ISO, DIN, CEN, ASTM, ASME …, national and American standarts) in user’s interface. There is a million of documents produced by more than 370 publishing standardazation institutions, governmantal organizations and
leading industrial companies.
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IEEE Standards
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The most extensive source of its kind which provides access to more than a third of all professional literature of the following..
Disciplines: applied science, engineering, electrical engineering and informatics, transport, biomedicine, optics, nuclear physics, …
Subject matter: journals, e-books, proceedings, training courses, standards
Quality and expertise is guaranteed by two institutes: the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
ASTM
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(American Society for Testing and Materials) - is a vast collection of industry-leading standards and technical engineering informations.
Platform provides constant access to the latest standards across dozens of industries including aerospace, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science and solar engineering disciplines.
Platform offer:
Standards - 12,500+ active standards
45,200+ historical and withdrawn standards
9,700+ redlines – shows the comparison between versions of standards
Ebooks - 1,550+ books (1931 – today)
Manuals, Monographs and Data Series (1965 – today)
Journals - all 9 ASTM journals – all articles peer-reviewed
Videos (methodologies, testing, procedures)
Full informations about content of database: leaflet
Manual: Videotutorials
International standard organizations
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ITU International Telecommunication Union
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
European standard institutions
CEN European Committee for Standardization
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
CENELEC European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
National standard institutions
ČAS Česká agentura pro standardizaci
DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung
BSI British Standards Institution
AFNOR Association Française de Normalisation
ANSI American National Standards Institute