Find Industry Standards Information
- American National Standards Institute (ANSI): Public DocumentsFulltext of background papers, issues papers, and conference presentations
- National Information Standards Organization (NISO)Standards available fulltext in PDF files.
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)Formerly National Bureau of Standards (NBS)
Develops national standards for product reliability, to promote public health and safety, to improve the environment, to maintain the national measurement system, etc. Contains indexing to and/or fulltext of some Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) and Standards Reference Data material. - Object Management Group (OMG)Has PDF files of specifications.
Patents
- U.S. Patent Database This link opens in a new windowFull text and image for U.S. patents and patent applications
