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American National Standards Institute
(ANSI)
ANSI is the largest organization in the States and the site links to
many related documents and international standard organizations. The site
includes membership information, many downloadable documents, current news.
http://www.ansi.org
British Standard Institution
(BSI)
BSI is one of the largest international standard organization. The
site includes information on standards, catalogs, registration and assessment,
and training and consultancy. It links to related documents.
http://www.bsi-global.com/index.xalter
Building Web
Provides information about construction products and suppliers, professional
services, contractors, associations, councils and institutes. Covers mainly
the United States and mostly Canada.
http://www.buildingweb.com
Department of Defense Single Stockpoint
for Standards
This site is intended to be a one-stop shopping site for military specifications
and standards. Included are military/performance/detail specifications,
military standards, Department of Defense-adopted non-government industry
specifications and standards, federal specifications and standards; military
handbooks; qualified products / Manufacturer's Lists (QPLs/QMLs); USAF
/ USN aeronautical standards & design standards; and USAF specifications
bulletins.
http://dodssp.daps.mil/
Defense Standardization
Program
This site provides links to military and federal standards web sites,
including ASSIST, STINET, the Defense Supply Center, NSSN, and Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base Engineering Standards Office.
http://www.dsp.dla.mil/onlinedocs.htm
IHS Global Engineering Documents
Allows to search and order a collection of more than one million documents
from over 460 organizations worldwide. Searchable by title, document
number, and category. Includes industry, government, military, U.S., international
and national standards, specifications, and publications.
http://global.ihs.com
ILI-Standards Database
Allows to search worldwide standards and specifications, such as DIN,
ISO, BSI, ASTM, NFPA, API, IEC, and ASME. Covers a range of
engineering, technical and regulatory databases. Needs to register
for free online standards facility. Once registered, it allows to
inquire title, number, version, contents, international equivalents and
price of any standard from the industrial world for free.
http://www.ili-info.com/us
Index of Federal
Specifications and Standards
Allows to search records of federal specifications and standards by
title, document number, and FSC. Several lists extracted from Index are
available and can be searched by keywords/number.
http://www.fss.gsa.gov/pub/fed-specs.cfm
International Standard Organization (ISO)
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a worldwide
federation of national standards bodies from some 130 countries. The site
includes information on standards and world trade, membership and service
network, products and contracts, and ISO 9000 and 14000.
http://www.iso.ch
Material Safety Data Sheet Searches
Portal for Material Safety Data Sheet Searches (MSDS).
http://www.ilpi.com/msds/
National Institute
of Standards and Technology( NIST)
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is an agency of
the U.S. Department of Commerce's Technology Administration. The site includes
information on standards and services, including standards reference materials
and programs, and measurement and standards laboratories. The site links
to NIST databases.
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/labs2.htm
National Resource for Global
Standards (NSSN)
Allows to search 225,000 approved standards citations by term in the
document tittle, document number, organization, and keyword. Provides nearly
13,500 records describing documents approved as American National Standards
(ANS). Includes documents approved by U.S. private sector organizations,
government agencies, and international standard organizations.
http://www.nssn.org/index.html
Techstreet
Online shop for standards, books, training, and software. Allows to
search by title, keyword/abstract, publisher, document number, author (
for books), and ISBN( for books).
http://www.cssinfo.com
World Standard Service
Network
Portal for international and national organizations. The site includes
index, information on standardization, and downloadable reference documents.
(PDF format)
http://www.wssn.net/WSSN/index.html
American Standards for Testing Materials
(ASTM)
ASTM is one of the largest voluntary standards development in the world.
The site includes information on news, training courses, services and products,
consultants directory, committees, and standards.
http://www.astm.org
Association of Fire and Toolmark Examiners
(AFTE)
Portal for resources on firearms and forensic science including information
on specifications and safety and recall. Links are categorized by firearms
and ballistics; knives, swords, arms and armor; archery, arbalist, ballista;
forensic sciences; associations in forensics; microscopy, imaging; useful
links. The site provides information on conferences, meetings, and training.
http://www.afte.org
FAA Standards
and Handbooks
Selected FAA standards handbooks are available on HTML or WorldView
format.
Links to FAA standards applicability databases, which contains descriptions
of more than 5,000 FAA, military, and commercial standards and specifications
used in existing FAA contracts and projects. Allows to search by type (information
security, internet, e-commerce), keyword, document number, standards body,
category, and specialty.
http://www.faa.gov/asd/standards/std-db.cfm
The Institute of Electrical Engineers
(IEE)
The Institution of Electrical Engineers represents the public, professional
and educational interest of over 140,000 electrical, electronic and manufacturing
engineers world-wide. Activities include publishing, the organization of
conferences, the maintenance of technical standards, interaction with government
departments and the provision of scientific and technical information services.
The site includes information on publishing and services, activities and
membership, and consultants directory and conferences.
http://www.iee.org.uk
Publications of
Headquarters, United States Army Corps of Engineers
Provides all official United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
engineering regulations, circulars, manuals, and other documents produced
by HQUSACE (PDF format). Includes Engineer Standards - Graphics, Federal
and Military Specifications, and Standards (FMSS), and Guide Specifications
for Construction.
http://www.usace.army.mil/inet/usace-docs
DOE Information Bridge
Allows to search 25,000+ full text contracted technical reports on
energy beginning January 1996. Topics include physics, chemistry,
materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering,
computer and information science, and renewable energy. Be able to search
by title, author, bibliographic information (easy search) and by
field and publication date (advanced search).
http://www.osti.gov/bridge
Environmental Protection
Agency
Portal for searchable databases on environmental protection. The site
includes Environmental Test Methods & Guidelines, which contains test
methods appeared in the Agency web site and sources for acquiring test
methods from EPA, Environmental Data Registry, which allows to retrieve
information about the data elements used in EPA systems, and many other
useful sites. Toxic Releases under Envirofacts contains information on
650+ industrial toxic chemicals.
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/Data.html
Scientific and Technical Information
Network (STINET)
Provides pertinent scientific and technical information. The
site contains all classified/unlimited citations added from late December
1974 to present, limited distribution citations added from 1985 to present,
all recently added unclassified, unlimited (September 1998 to Present)
and unclassified, limited full text reports (December 1999 to Present),
and active and inactive Research Summaries (RS) from 1965 to present. Field
search is available and full text documents are downloadable in PDF format.
http://multisearch.dtic.mil
Sector Facility Indexing
Project (EPA)
Provides compliance and enforcement history, production capacity, demographics
of the surrounding community, and information on TRI (Toxic Release Inventory)
pollutant release and spills. Included five industry sectors (individual
facilities) are petroleum refining, iron and steel production, primary
smelting and refining of nonferrous metals, pulp manufacturing, and automobile
assembly. Be able to search individual facilities by a combination of name,
city, state, and EPA region.
http://es.epa.gov/oeca/sfi/access.htm
Domain
Name System Look Up Service
Searches information related to particular domains by individual name,
company name, domain name, IP address, host or name server. Use www.nic.gov
for .gov and nic.ddn.mil for governent and military related information,
and www.rip.net for European related information, and www.apnic.net
for Asia-Pacific related information, and domain name registries around
the world for everything. This site also contains links to the forms for
individuals or businesses to set up their own domain name.
http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois
NetLingo: The Internet Language Dictionary
Features a listing of hundreds of words that are rapidly evolving into
the new vocabulary of the technology industry and the Web community.
http://www.netlingo.com