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Resources for Standards & Specifications

Most standards are not freely available on the Internet.

U.S. Government standards available via the Internet

Standards available in the UCF Library

Other Resources

Your best starting point to verify current information about a standard is:

NSSN: A National Resource for Global Standards contains over 300,000 references to standards from more than 600 developers worldwide. A user searches the NSSN and identifies a document of interest. If the document is available electronically the user will be seamlessly transferred to the shopping cart of the standards developer or designated information reseller. If a document is not available electronically then information is provided about how to obtain a hard-copy version of the text.

IHS Global provides brief information for current standards.  All users must register before searching, and may purchase standards.  Only UCF faculty may request standards via Interlibrary Loan's Book Request form.  See also IEEE Xplore for selected full text standards.  

U.S. Government standards available via the Internet:

Standards Available in the UCF Library:

Abbreviation Source
  Industry Standards and Engineering Data provides numeric and subject indexing of the standards of: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American National Standards Institute, American Society for Testing and Materials, and other organizations. Although less extensive than NSSN and no longer updated by the UCF Library,  this print index may help identify many of the major standards. Full text of the standards is not included, except for some older issues of ASTM and NFPA standards.
The 2002 edition is available at the UCF Library's Reference Desk.
ACI American Concrete Institute
ACI manual of concrete practice (1995) - Some newer standards are not included.
REF TA 681.A45
ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials
ASTM Standards  
Some older standards are available on microfiche in a cabinet near the Reference Desk, with indexing available in Industry Standards and Engineering Data, available at the Reference Desk.  CD-ROM subscription discontinued January 2002.
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IEEE Xplore includes current IEEE Standards.

or paper copies of IEEE Standards at REF TK 275.I59 - Some newer standards are not included.

IEEE Nuclear Power Standards: Archive Collection (1990)
REF TK 1343.I57
NFPA National Fire Protection Association
NFPA Standards  
Some older standards are available on microfiche in a cabinet near the Reference Desk, with indexing available in Industry Standards and Engineering Data, available at the Reference Desk.  CD-ROM subscription discontinued January 2002.
SAE Society of Automotive Engineers
SAE Handbook (2005)
REF TL 151.S62
  Other standards may be available. Ask for assistance at the UCF Library's Reference Desk.

Other Resources:

Standards (Univ of Colorado at Boulder) provides links to other resources.

European Union Sources for Standards provides links to other resources.

Looking for something else? Ask for assistance at the UCF Library's Reference Desk.

Prepared by:  Rich Gause, Government Documents Librarian
URL of this page: http://library.ucf.edu/govdocs/standards.asp

Last update:07/28/08 01:31:26 PM

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