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Standards & Patents: Australian & international standards

A guide to Australian and international standards and patents

Australian standards

SAI Global (full text only for JCU)
Australian Standards is searchable by topic or standard number. It contains:

- all current Australian standards
- joint Australian/New Zealand standards
- joint Australian/New Zealand/ISO standards

International standards

American National Standards Institute links
ASTM International (full text available for purchase)
Technical standards for materials, products, systems, and services.
British Standards Institution
Canadian Standards Association
European Committee for Standardisation (CEN)
CEN is a major provider of European Standards and technical specifications. This site provides information on current European standards developments.
International Standards Organisation
A worldwide federation of national standards bodies. The ISO standards catalogue is available to search or browse.
Standards Engineering Society
Contains links to wide range of organisations which produce standards.

Purchasing standards

Standards Australia (SAI Global)
Subscription access to Australian Standards, Joint ISO/Australian Standards, Joint NZ/Australian Standards, Draft Australian Standards, and amendments to Australian Standards ONLY.

Only available to JCU staff and students. Any downloaded documents will be watermarked with your details which are recorded when you login through the JCU SSO. See the FAQ for instructions on how to install the FileOpen plugin which is required to download and read any documents.

Available to James Cook University users only.
Limited to 2 concurrent users.

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