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Engineering Standards

ASME Digital Collection: Books, Journals, Proceedings
American Society of Mechanical Engineers' primary repository of current and archival literature. Click on Standards in the top menu and then make sure you are using the institutional access (check the upper right corner).
ASTM Compass
ASTM standards and technical publications.
Current ASTM Standards, ASTM Special Technical Publications (STPs) and Journal of ASTM International, Journal of Testing and Evaluation, Geotechnical Testing Journal, Journal of Forensic Science, Journal of Composites, Technology and Research, and Journal of Cement, Concrete, and Aggregates.

ASTM Compass also provides searching and full-text access to current ISO, IEC, AASHTO, AWS, and AWWA standards.
IEEE Xplore
The home page for IEEE Xplore has a link to the standards under the Browse Tab.
IEEE Courses uses the best educational courses from IEEE conferences and workshops around the world and delivers them in interactive video format. You can earn Continuing Education Unit (CEU) credits and Professional Development Hours (PDH).

To set up remote access to IEEE Xplore on a mobile device, please follow these steps:
1. On the mobile device, use a browser to visit the IEEE Xplore website through the U-M Library's access.
2. Click on the blue tab "My Settings" in the middle of the screen, then choose "Remote Access."
3. Follow the instructions to pair your device. Users will be asked to sign in with an IEEE personal account before pairing.
4. This device can now be used off-site for 90 days to access IEEE Xplore. Users must go to IEEE Xplore on the paired device and log in with their IEEE personal account to access the roaming subscription.
Please note that after 90 days, users will be prompted to again pair their device and can follow the same steps as the initial pairing.
MAD CAD: Building Codes Online
Building, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire, and maintenance codes.
Comprehensive, cross-referenced collection of building, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire, and maintenance codes from BOCA, SBCCI, ICBO, ICC, and NFPA; also some state and local codes. Access is limited to five concurrent users for IBC 2006, three concurrent users for IBC 2003, two concurrent users for IBC 2000 and one concurrent user for all other material. If you receive the error message, "You are exceeding the maximum number of concurrent access for this resource," please try again at a later time.
Municode: Municipal Codes
Access to over 1,000 local municipal codes from almost all states. Search by state and locale.
SAE Mobilus
To get to the SAE standards, click on the "Standards" link on the right side of the top, blue menu. From that page click on "Visit SAE Standards Works" button to view their standards.
1998-present (full text); 1906-present (citations). Includes papers contained in the SAE Proceedings, Special Publications, and Transactions since 1998, as well as information on articles published back to 1906.

National Fire Protection Agency
NFPA publishes more than 300 consensus codes and standards intended to minimize the possibility and effects of fire and other risks. NFPA codes and standards, administered by more than 250 Technical Committees comprising approximately 8,000 volunteers, are adopted and used throughout the world.

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These standards are published by the National Fire Protection Association. To access the standards you will need to create a free account.
Federal Register
The Federal Register is the daily publication of "current Presidential proclamations and Executive orders, Federal agency regulations having general applicability and legal effect, proposed agency rules, and documents required by statute to be published." This includes standards put in place by regulatory agencies like the EPA.

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Regulations will first appear in the Federal Register and later be published in the Code of Federal Regulations, "the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government."
eCFR: Electronic Code of Federal Regulations
A regularly updated online version of the Code of Federal Regulations.

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