Standards Infobase is the full Standards information, management and acquisition service.
It is the world’s leading bibliographic database covering over 1,000,000 Standards and specifications from hundreds of global publishers, with a scale that spans the entire industrialized world.
In the global economy there has never been a greater need for accurate information to help organizations make key decisions fast, in order to:
- win or retain vital contracts
- meet the many compliance obligations
- measurably contribute to your organization’s bottom line
This is a daily reality, whether your organization is a large multi-national, small business or government agency.
So, how do you:
Stay informed about the multitude of changes that occur in the world of international Standards and engineering specifications?
Know that you are using the most up-to-date technical information?
Control the costs of researching, acquiring and managing your technical information?
Combine and integrate your own internal documents with your Standards collection?
Standards Infobase Benefits
Standards Infobase provides in-depth information on the world’s most important Standards in order to answer business-critical challenges, efficiently and cost-effectively.
With Standards Infobase, our clients can:
- minimize their Standards expenditure by up to 75%
- spend more time on their business rather than sourcing and monitoring Standards
- access at a glance the details of over 1,000,000 global Standards from hundreds of publishers
- access many of them immediately in PDF form
- Take the guesswork out of document management for ISO 9000 compliance
- Add their own searchable content
How Standards Infobase Works
Standards Infobase is a detailed reference resource giving you in-depth information and a powerful search tool on global Standards. It provides you with a complete management and acquisition tool for all your Standards and technical document needs.
Use Standards Infobase to Find > Update > Manage > Purchase all of your Standards needs.
Find
You can search through more than 1,000,000 publications from hundreds of global Standards bodies
Access highly detailed document information including the document number, title, version, concise summary, international equivalents, table of contents and more
Determine document status including New, Cancelled and Superseded, as well as inside information on documents that are in-development
Reference European Union Directives with links to relevant Standards, and the relevant EU "New Approach" Directives listing the Standards required to attain the CE Mark
Use the Powersearch facility across 24 fields, including cross referencing of up to 10 criteria at the same time, such as Number, Title, Text, Publisher, Document Type, Equivalency etc
Avoid ambiguity with our fuzzy recognition of numbers and keywords, eg ISO 9001 vs ISO9001
Reference international equivalency data to locate and compare Standards from outside your domestic market
Update
Standards Infobase is updated weekly, with personal email update reminders sent out monthly and detailing that month’s changes
You can monitor your own lists of Standards for updates, and once made you will receive an email each month detailing which Standards on your list have been updated
With its exclusive Bookmark feature, Standards Infobase removes an audit obstacle and helps to ensure ISO 9000 Quality compliance, or other legal, industry or business improvement obligations
Manage
Import your own in-house documentation or Standards and then edit, search and manage them using the Standards Manager feature. Adding your own records to the database lets you create a fully customized resource that centralizes all of your important documents
Control your Standards collection using the Notepad function, i.e. know who has what document, where it is, and what internal procedures it supports etc. Notepad allows you to annotate records with your own notes and information, such as whether it is a document you currently hold, whether or not it is a controlled copy, the projects it relates to, or library loan details. These notes are fully searchable within the Standards Infobase system
Purchase
Control your Standards purchasing process with the Gatekeeper facility that allows any administrator to approve or deny each document order, with purchase requests able to be sorted by individual user or price
Be alerted with detailed information if you attempt to order any Standard you have purchased already
View all previous orders made by your organization
Standards Infobase: What is included?
