Raising standards

As you may or may not know the University has a subscription to the complete collection of British Standards Online (BSOL). This is a significant resource for the School of Technology in particular as standards and technical specifications are important information sources for the construction and engineering industries as well as the fields of computing, information systems, and management.

From BSOL (accessible via the LIS website) you can locate and download full text documents by searching by standard number or by keyword. Results will include current standards as well as previous versions and drafts in progress. In addition to accessing documents directly from British Standards Online, there are a range of sources available to you via the BSI Higher Education website. You may be particular interested in the section ‘Standards for your course‘ which provides information about standards and their relationship to your field of study. From the main BSI site you can find more information about how standards are developed as well as how you might contribute to the process.

You can find British Standards on a whole host of social sites. Here is one of the latest videos from their YouTube channel on web accessibility:


For academic staff an alerting service is available for tracking a standard. For more information about this service or if you would like to arrange a training session, please get in touch with us.