Industry Standards: Industry Standards

Industry Standards Databases / Resources:

• ASTM Compass (full-text access to ASTM’s 12,000+ standards, as well as AASHTO, AATCC, API, and UOP standards)

• Compendex (full-text access to research papers and publications from IEEE, ASME, SAE, and ACM standards)

• IEEE Xplore (full-text access to all IEEE standards)

• Engineering Workbench  (we have standards in the following areas)
  
  • ASTM (moved to ASTM Compass)
  • BSI (ISO)
  • IEC
• Standards related library resources (The library has many items related to standards and codes in the Duke catalog, some of the main ones are listed below)
  • ANSI standards (mostly older, a few recent)
  • American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Standards
  • ASTM standards (older - 80's, 90's some 2000 & 2001)
  • ISO 9000 series
  • ISO 14000 series
  • LEED guides, standards & certification
  • NC Building Codes (includes 2015 NC Existing Building Code, 2014 NC Electrical Code Amendments, 2012 NC Mechanical Code, 2012 NC Plumbing Code, 2012 NC Residential Code, 2012 NC Fire Code, 2012 NC Fuel Gas Code, 2012 NC Energy Code, 2012 NC Building Code, 2012 NC Administrative Code)
• Standards for Medical Devices and Electrical Safety
  • 21 CFR 820 FDA
  • ISO 14971 (BS EN ISO 14971:2019+A11:2021) - Medical devices. Application of risk management to medical devices
  • IEC 62304 - Medical device software - Software life cycle processes
  • IEC 62366-1 - Medical devices - Part 1: Application of usability engineering to medical devices
  • IEC 60601: IEC 60601-1-2, BS EN IEC 60601-2-2, & IEC 60601-2-18
  • IEC 62368-1 
• FDA Recognized Consensus Standards
  • A list of consensus standards that were evaluated and recognized by U.S. Food and Drug Administration

The library uses Accuris Engineering Workbench to process requests for standards.  Please follow the steps below to place a request.

1. Browse the Duke Engineering Workbench Subscription, starting March 7th, 2025, to see what standards have already been purchased within our blocks (BSI/ISO & IEC) already this year.  These standards are available digitally for one calendar year for all Duke users.
    
2. If your standard has not already been purchased, and is part of BSI (ISO) or IEC, then create an account with the form below.  After logging in you may select the standard you want and click "Add Building Block".  This will send an email to the library to approve the standard purchase.
    
3. Once approved, the standard will then show up in Duke's subscription.  You may view digitally* (for one calendar year) and/or you are allowed to print (1) copy.  All other Duke users may also view this standard online for one year.
    
4. If the standard you want is NOT part of BSI (ISO), IEC or IEEE, then you may submit an email to deric.hardy@duke.edu with a link to the standard in the Engineering Workbench that you need along with your Duke information. 
    

*Please note that you may need to add a plug-in (under Tools on the Techstreet home page) or disable a plugin depending on what browser you're using in order to read or download the document.

The American National Standards Institute’s (ANSI) University Outreach Program will make standard(s) from the collection of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) available to the faculty and students identified on this enrollment form at no cost.

First, please read the "End User License Agreement" prior to considering participation to this program. You may then complete the "University Outreach Program" enrollment form below and submit to the contact person listed:

Standards are detailed documents that may be rules, testing methods, definitions, recommended practices, and specifications that promote uniformity for engineering design, industrial practices, and terminology, etc. 

Please see the helpful links below for more information.