Need help finding standards?
If you need help finding standards contact your subject librarian.
"A standard is an agreed way of doing something. It could be about making a product, managing a process, delivering a service or supplying materials – standards can cover a huge range of activities undertaken by organizations and used by their customers.
"Standards are the distilled wisdom of people with expertise in their subject matter and who know the needs of the organizations they represent." - BSI
Accessing standards
Imperial staff and students have access to the standards listed below, either through Library subscriptions or freely via the issuing organisations. If you need help finding standards contact your subject librarian.
British Standards via BSOL
Eurocodes via BSOL
ISO standards via BSOL
IEC via BSOL - the International Electrotechnical Commission standards
ASTM (formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials)
ITU-R Recommendations - International Telecommunication Union standards (freely available)
IEEE - the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers standards
SAE - aerospace and ground vehicle standards
DNV Rules and Standards - energy industry standards
ANSI IBR - content from certain standards developing organisations (freely available, read-only access)
NFPA - US National Fire Protection Association standards (freely available)
Below is a list of organisations that issue standards (this list is not exhaustive). Imperial has access to standards issued by many of these organisations but not all. See section Accessing standards for more details.
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
American Petroleum Institute (API)
British Standards Institution (BSI)
DIN Deutsches Institut fur Normung (German Institute for Standardisation)
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC)
European Committee for Standardization (CEN)
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Need help finding standards?
If you need help finding or locating standards contact your subject librarian.