IHS Standards Expert (formerly Specs and Standards) is a standards management service which incorporates a very extensive collection of industry standards. Bibliographic information on over 350,000 standards from approximately 450 standards organizations throughout the world are included. Documents can be located by searching: document number, keywords, subject terms, organization, new/revised, ANSI approved, DoD adopted, ICS classification.
Wild card or truncation capability is available using the asterisk "*". For example, searching "transmi*" will yield documents containing the words "transmission", "transmit", "transmitting", etc.
Please note: The University of Alberta subscription presently limits availability of full text to standards publications from:
Science and Technology Library Service Desk, Cameron Library
780-492-8440
Use of this product is restricted to the following members of the University of Alberta: faculty members (including temporary or exchange faculty for the duration of their assignment), graduate and undergraduate students, staff members, and independent contractors acting as faculty or staff members. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that he or she uses this product for individual, non-commercial educational or research purposes only. The documents contained in the IHS Specs & Standards Service are governed by copyright legislation. Authorized users are not allowed to download documents to disc, USB drives, or other form of memory. Authorized users can not make a copy of the document(s) for permanent retention/archival purposes. Users may not transmit documents electronically or by any other means in any form to any other site.