{"id":242,"date":"2020-11-06T11:23:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T11:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/?p=242"},"modified":"2021-09-02T21:21:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T20:21:40","slug":"where-to-find-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/where-to-find-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to find Standards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This small, but beautifully formed <a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.ncl.ac.uk\/standards\">Standards Resource Guide<\/a> will give you all you need to know about what standards you can access whilst at Newcastle University.<\/p>\n<p>Standards are codes of best practice containing technical specifications and guidelines. They are\u00a0used to ensure uniformity and consistency, reliability and safety and provide a quality benchmark.<\/p>\n<p>We have full text access to all current\u00a0BS,\u00a0ASTM\u00a0and\u00a0IEEE\u00a0standards.<\/p>\n<p>Many\u00a0ISO\u00a0and\u00a0EN\u00a0(and some\u00a0IEC) standards also have BS equivalents and are available online too.<\/p>\n<p>To support teaching and research, we also purchase a small number of individual standards from other\u00a0organisations\u00a0(e.g.\u00a0ASME, API, etc).\u00a0These are usually available in hard-copy and you can find their\u00a0shelfmarks\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/libsearch.ncl.ac.uk\/\">Library Search<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.ncl.ac.uk\/standards\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-243\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/03\/Standards-1024x648.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/03\/Standards-1024x648.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/03\/Standards-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/03\/Standards-768x486.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/03\/Standards.png 1187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you need a particular standard for your research, dissertation, or to support your teaching, please contact the <a href=\"mailto:libliaison@ncl.ac.uk\">Liaison Team<\/a> or ask us to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/library\/borrow-reserve-return\/\">investigate buying it<\/a> for library stock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This small, but beautifully formed Standards Resource Guide will give you all you need to know about what standards you can access whilst at Newcastle University. Standards are codes of best practice containing technical specifications and guidelines. They are\u00a0used to ensure uniformity and consistency, reliability and safety and provide a quality benchmark. We have full &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/where-to-find-standards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where to find Standards?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,101],"tags":[26,50,95,53,54,56,63,66,12,100],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","category-topic-guides","tag-architecture","tag-civil","tag-culture-and-heritage","tag-earth","tag-eee","tag-environeng","tag-marinetech","tag-mecheng","tag-media","tag-planning-and-landscape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6005,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/6005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}