Standards links

The listing of sites here does not imply endorsement by TWI, or that they are the best sources of information. The list is updated and links are checked periodically.

• Afnor - Association française de normalisation, offers information in French and English on activities, publications, products and services including standards and certification. Uses Frames, Flash and animation. [last looked at on 4 December 2008]
  
  
• American National Standards Institute operate the National Standards Systems Network which aims to offer a variety of services to enable users to find standards and standards related information online. By offering a single access point, users can search and browse through the hundreds of standards provider's and standards information provider's catalogues and abstracts about information available. Includes Electronic Standards Store. [last looked at on 4 December 2008]
  
  
• ASTM International (previously American Society for Testing and Materials), offer information on their activities including publications, events and training, and provide searching for ASTM Standards, testing laboratories, consultants and experts. Fax delivery of their standards is offered. The ASTM Digital Library offers subscribers access to electronic editions of nearly every ASTM book, paper, or chapter from nearly every piece of work published by ASTM (over 30,000 papers and chapters and more than 430,000 pages of information). [last looked at on 4 December 2008]
  
  
• British Standards Institution give brief information on their activities in standards, product certification, testing, quality assurance and training, plus a listing of their services and contact addresses. They offer a Standards Online service where registered users can obtain bibliographic information and order hard copies of standards and subscribers can view or download standards. [last looked at on 4 December 2008]
  
  
• Canadian Standards Association gives information in English and French about the organisation, publications and certification activities from CSA International. Includes online store and catalogue. [last looked at on 4 December 2008]
  
  
• CEN, the European Committee for Standardization, offers news of activities and publications. [last looked at on 4 December 2008]
  
  
• Danish Standards Association offers information in Danish and English on their standards and certification activities. Includes online ordering and subscriber areas. [last looked at on 4 December 2008]
  
  
• Document Center sells standards and specifications from a wide range of countries and organisations. [last looked at on 4 December 2008]
  
  
• The Finnish Standards Association SFS offers information in Finnish with some also in English. [last looked at on 4 December 2008]
  
  
• German Institute for Standardization (Deutsches Institut für Normung) is in German and partly in English. It includes online ordering. [last looked at on 16 December 2008]
  
  
• IEEE Standards Association offers online ordering of standards and details of the standards development program. [last looked at on 4 December 2008]
  
  
• IHS Global Engineering Documents distribute US, international and national standards, specifications and technical publications. In English, French and German. [last looked at on 4 December 2008]
  
  
• ILI are suppliers of worldwide hardcopy technical Standards (DIN, ISO, BSI, ASTM, etc.). They offer online ordering and access to their databases on standards, metal grades, European law and engineering research. [last looked at on 4 December 2008]
  
  
• International Electrotechnical Commission presents information on activities and publications and online ordering of IEC standards. In English and French. [last looked at on 4 December 2008]
  
  
• The International Organization for Standardization offers, in English and French, an introduction to ISO, details of ISO technical committees, description of the ISO structure, an ISO meeting calendar, lists of ISO members worldwide, the ISO Catalogue and an ISO 9000/ ISO 14000 News Service. [last looked at on 4 December 2008]
  
  
• Japanese Industrial Standards Committee (JISC) gives information in English and Japanese on the structure and activities of the organisation including development of standards and accreditation of testing laboratories. [last looked at on 4 December 2008]
  
  
• SAI Global webshop offers standards from Australian standards-issuing bodies and several other national and international organisations. [last looked at on 4 December 2008]
  
  
• Standards Australia describes the organisation and its activities [last looked at on 4 December 2008]
  
  
• Standards Engineering Society works to promote the use of standards and standardization, with emphasis on the USA and Canada. The site offers publications, information on activities and an extensive list of links to Standards organisations. [last looked at on 4 December 2008]
  
  
• Swedish Standards Institute offers information on their activities, products and training and consulting services. In Swedish and English. [last looked at on 4 December 2008]
  
  
• Techstreet supply standards, specifications and codes. Many documents available for download as PDF. Subscribers can apply for email alerts of Standards changes. [last looked at on 4 December 2008]
  
  
• World Standards Services Network is a network of publicly accessible World Wide Web servers of standards organisations around the world. [last looked at on 4 December 2008]

If these links fail, or you know of one that ought to be included, please inform Sheila Thomas BA MCLIP MWeldI, Principal Information Scientist at TWI (The Welding Institute); sheila.thomas@twi.co.uk.