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Standards

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

Standards are for educational use only. Commercial use is strictly prohibited.

Accessing standards
Standards organisations

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.

Standards organisation	Type of standard / Topic	Access
British Standards	All industries	Library subscription via BSOL
ISO standards	All industries	Library subscription via BSOL
Eurocodes	Structural and construction engineering	Library subscription via BSOL
IEC	Electrical and electronic technologies	Library subscription via BSOL
ASTM	All industries	Library subscription
ITU-R Recommendations	Telecommunications and ICT	Freely available
IEEE	Electrical and electronic engineering	Library subscription
SAE	Aerospace and ground vehicles	Library subscription
DNV Rules and Standards	Energy industry	Freely available
NFPA	Fire, electrical and safety requirements	Freely available
ANSI IBR	All industries	Freely available (read-only, registration required)

Standards organisations

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)

ASTM

British Standards Institution (BSI)

DIN Deutsches Institut fur Normung (German Institute for Standardisation)

DNV

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)