Library Guides: Engineering Standards: A Guide: Finding Standards

Locating Standards via Library Databases

ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library
Full Text! provides online, campus-wide access to all 13,000 ASTM standards as well as manuals, monographs, data series, selected technical papers, and journals, including back issues going back 30-40yrs. SEDL covers a range of engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering
Form and Style for ASTM Standards
Information on how to read an ASTM standard including how the information is organized.

IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
IEEE Xplore is an online delivery system providing full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Links to Standards available for purchase.
For a current list of IEEE Explore material that is part of the Tulane University subscription package, check out: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/accessinfo.

Inspec (Ei Village 2) This link opens in a new window
Inspec is a leading bibliographic information database covering the fields of physics, electronics, computing, control engineering and information technology with more than 7.7 million records taken from 3,500 technical and scientific journals and 1,500 conference proceedings. Also known as Engineering Village.

SDO and Standards Search Engines

Standards.gov
Standards.Gov offers background materials and useful links for locating information about the use of standards in government. The primary focus is on federal agency use of standards for regulatory purposes.
NSSN.org - ANSI
Considered the most comprehensive standards search engine with over 300,000 records from organizations accredited by ANSI (the American national standards institute), government agencies, industries, and international organizations
Standards Organizations that Offer Free Access to Their Standards
From NIST. Either free to everyone or fee to members.
ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
ANSI is a non-profit organization that issues accreditation for standards developers and facilitates the development of standards by those organizations. ANSI is the official U.S. representative to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
IEEE Standards Association
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) is a leading standards developer, with 1,300 industry standards in a broad range of technologies.
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
Largest developer and publisher of international standards.
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community that develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web.
AAMI (Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation)
Produce standards, recommended Practices, and technical information reports for medical devices.
IHS/Global Standards Store