Research Guides: Technical Communication: ENGR 2196: Standards

Selected standards

AASHTO (American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials)
Select products drop-down list and then Bookstore from the toolbar to find published standards issued for design, construction of highways and bridges, materials and other technical issues. Use form linked in the box below to request a library purchase.

ASCE Research Library
ASCE Research Library provides access to ASCE journals, as well as conference proceedings back to 1983.

ASHRAE (The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers)
(The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers). Scroll down to see subject and numeric indexes of standards. Use form linked in the box below to request a library purchase.

ASME Digital Collection
ASME Digital Collection provides titles, journals, conference proceedings, and ASME Press books. It also contains the following collections: ASME’s Transaction Journals from 1960 to the present, ASME's Conference Proceedings from 2002 to the present, ASME Press eBooks selected from 1993 to the present.

ASME Shop
Use this link to search for ASME standards. Use the ASME Digital Collection link above to view a concise list of ASTM standards. To request a library purchase, use the form linked in the box below.

ASTM Compass

Note: ASTM updated their platform and URL in July 2025. Old links will not redirect, so please update any bookmarks accordingly.
ASTM Book of Standards via ASTM Compass. Includes standards on civil, construction, environmental, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, soil science and solar engineering, among other topics.
IEEE Xplore
IEEE Xplore provides Web access to full-text documents from publications in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics. The content in IEEE Xplore comprises journals, conference proceedings, eBooks and educational courses.

Everyspec.com
From the website "EverySpec provides free access to over 55,000 Military, DoD, Federal, NASA, DOE, and Government specifications, standards, handbooks, and publications.
This data warehouse includes standardization documents with the designations of MIL, MIL-STD, MIL-PRF, MIL-DTL, FED, CID, JANS, MS, AND, USAF, DID, CID, UCF, and FIPS, including their Amendments, Notices, and Supplements."

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