What Are Engineering Standards?
Engineering standards are established guidelines that provide technical specifications, requirements, and best practices for designing, manufacturing, and testing products, processes, and systems in various engineering disciplines.
This guide will show you how to identify and obtain standards available at Gleeson library, and beyond.
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ASTM Standards
The Annual Book of ASTM Standards is an 85-volume set of books containing more than 12,000 standards. The set is shelved in the 3rd floor stacks (call number TA401 A653), and you can retrieve volumes there for the purpose of copying pages or browsing the contents.
How to locate a standard in the Annual Book of ASTM Standards
Searching the ASTM Website for Standards
1. The ASTM website searches ASTM standards as well as journal articles, symposium papers, and other publications.
- Go to the ASTM website and enter your search terms in the search box at the top of the page.
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Add the word "standard" to your search and some (but not all) of the non-standards results will be eliminated.
- natural cement standard
2. Examine your search results to identify a relevant standard.
- Standards will be identified with a blue "Standard" button.
- Be sure the standard also displays a green "Active" button, which designates a standard that is still in use.
3. Click on the title of the standard for a description or summary of the contents of the standard, and find the volume number.
- Take note of the ASTM Standards volume number listed in the "Details" box in the right-hand sidebar. You will need this information to locate the relevant volume in the library book stacks.
- "Book of Standards Volume: 04.01"
- The library owns the 2023 edition of ASTM Standards, but you don't need to worry if the year listed is different — the volume number will still be the same.
4. The ASTM Standards set is shelved in the stacks on the 3rd floor (call number TA401 A653).
- Go to the 3rd floor book stacks and retrieve the volume you need.
- You can photocopy or take photos of the relevant pages, and return the volume to the front desk, even if you did not check it out.
Other Standards
Use Accuris to find standards from many different organizations
1. Accuris allows you to search for standards published by more than 400 standards organizations.
- At the Accuris home screen, enter your topic search term(s) in the search box, and click the "search" button.
- wearables
2. Select a standard from the results and click on the title for more information.
3. Request the standard using our interlibrary loan service.
- Login to Illiad (our interlibrary loan service) using your myUSF credentials.
- From the "New Requests" menu, choose "Article" unless the standard you're requesting includes an "ISBN" number, in which case, choose "Book" from the menu.
- Enter as much information as you can about the standard, including the title; standard ID, and ISBN (if applicable). You can always enter information in the "Notes" field if there is no obvious field to enter it in.
- Submit your request, and we will do our best to get you a copy of the standard.
- If you need help or have questions please let me know (my contact information is on this page.).