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Information Technology Standards

An IT Standard is a rule, principal, technique, process or template that is designed to provide consistency to the planning, development, operation and governance of information technology services.

IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
Collection of IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, and standards from 1988 to the present.

ISO standards for IT
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
Available for free on W3C website.
Internet Standards
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), part of Internet Society, coordinates the development of voluntary Internet Standards that allow for international communications between autonomous and interconnected networks.

Software Standards

A software standard is a standard, protocol, or other common format of a document, file, or data transfer accepted and used by one or more software developers while working on one or more than one computer programs. Software standards enable interoperability between different programs created by different developers.(Wikipedia)

IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
Collection of IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, and standards from 1988 to the present.

Standards@KSL

KSL's goal is to offer access to standards from a variety of publishers to the whole campus community. That is why we have a mix of resources and tools available:

ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Full text access to active ASTM standards and related material from ASTM journals, symposia papers and STPs, manuals, monographs and data series.

NEW!! Starting in 2024, the ISO standards are available on the ASTM Digital Library.

IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
Access to IEEE standards.

ASCE 7-16
Access to all major revisions of this standard.
ACI 318
Access to all major revisions of this standard.

AASHTO LRFD bridge construction specifications by AASHTO
Call Number: online
Publication Date: 2017
Standard specifications for transportation materials and methods of sampling and testing and AASHTO provisional standards by AASHTO
Call Number: online
Publication Date: 2020
AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications by AASHTO
Call Number: online
Publication Date: 2020
Guide Specifications for Highway Construction (10th Edition) by AASHTO
Call Number: online
Publication Date: 2020

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the departments and agencies of the Federal Government.

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TechStreet This link opens in a new window
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Techstreet can be used order standards not otherwise available at CWRU. KSL's Techstreet account allows both campus-wide access to specific standards, as well as single user access to other standards as needed.

*When off-campus, login to FortiClient VPN is required to access TechStreet guide.