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Standards & Codes: Waterloo's Online Standards Subscriptions

Important details regarding permitted usage:

Due to licensing restrictions, standards in our subscriptions may only be used exclusively by University of Waterloo students, faculty, researchers, and staff, for educational purposes and cannot be shared. Standards are not permitted for use by students on co-op terms.

Accessing Standards through the Library

Waterloo subscribes to standards from several organizations, listed below. If you cannot find the standard you are looking for, use the contact form on the Get Started page to place a request for the standard. Requests will be reviewed on an individual basis.

 

AAMI standards

 

ACI standards

Access via Nimonik. The first time you access Nimonik, you will be prompted to choose your Facility location. The drop down menu will have one option, “University of Waterloo”. Then to browse the list of ACI technical standards available, select the button titled "CO Registers".

  • Nimonik

    Nimonik is an aggregator of licenses for technical standard documents. This is not a database that provides full and immediate access to everything within, rather it is a catalogue of documents available for licensing. Upon request and dependent on pricing, the Library can potentially license short term access to specific documents exclusively for educational use. Access is not guaranteed and dependent on available limited funds.

     

ASTM standards (Notice: Currently ASTM standards can only be accessed from on-campus)

Access via:

ASME standards

Access via:

BSI

Access via Nimonik. The first time you access Nimonik, you will be prompted to choose your Facility location. The drop down menu will have one option, “University of Waterloo”. Then to browse the list of BSI technical standards available, select the button titled "CO Registers".

CSA

IEEE

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ISO

Access via Nimonik. The first time you access Nimonik, you will be prompted to choose your Facility location. The drop down menu will have one option, “University of Waterloo”. Then to browse the list of ISO technical standards available, select the button titled "CO Registers".

SAE

National Canadian Codes:

National Building Code of Canada, 2020

  • Access via our subscription to CSA's Database.
  • Search for either: National Building Code of Canada or NRC NBC-2020

 

Canadian Electrical Code, 26th edition, 2024

  • Access via our subscription to CSA's Database.
  • Search for either: Canadian Electrical Code, Part I (26th Edition) or CSA C22.1:24