Request a Standard
Request a Standard for Purchase
If we do not currently own a particular standard, please ask! Standards needed for research, Collaboratory, or coursework can be requested by asking your librarian.
Make a Request:
- Specify the name and number of each needed standard.
- Email Librarian Sarah Myers, smyers@messiah.edu
All about Standards
What is a standard?
A standard is defined by the National Standards Policy Advisory Committee as:
"A prescribed set of rules, conditions, or requirements concerning definitions of terms; classification of components; specification of materials, performance, or operations; delineation of procedures; or measurement of quantity and quality in describing materials, products, systems, services, or practices."
What is a standard? from ISO.
For detailed & historical information on standards in the United States see:
- Conformity Assessment from NIST
In general, full-text standards are not available free on the Web. The following links provide information on standards, as well as searchable indexes.
- ANSI - American National Standards Institute
- This is the coordinating body for standards in the U.S.
- Codes and Standards
- Sponsored by ASME, this site offers information on ME related standards.
- Global
- A commercial provider of industry standards.
- IEEE standards info
- Info about IEEE standards, the IEEE standards process, and the status of IEEE standards.
- ILI
- A commercial provider of industry standards.
- ISO - International Standardization Organization
- Information about ISO, as well as a searchable catalog.
- ITU - International Telecommunication Union
- List of standards currently in force, as well as forthcoming recommendations.
- National Institute of standards and Technology (NIST)
- Affiliated with the U.S. Department of Commerce, primarily concerned with measurement standards.
- NISO - National Information standards Organization
- Provides standards about information retrieval, metatdata, etc. in free PDF format online!
- Online standards documentation
- A compiled list of various online standards resources.
- OSHA - Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- A searchable resource of OSHA related standards and regulations.
- TechStreet
- Commercial standards supplier.
- UL standards - Underwriters Laboratories
- UL standards adopted by the American National standards Institute. Individual standards are listed under Underwriters' Laboratories as a corporate author. Select standards of safety are also available.
- W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
- W3C contributes to efforts to standardize Web technologies by producing specifications (called "recommendations") that describe the building blocks of the Web, such as HTML and XML.