Greetings,
Please forgive the shameless advertising, but one solution is to purchase the CSA Standards on CD-ROM. This has all the CSA standards, including all harmonized Canada/US standards (such as CSA950/UL1950). Also, since Canada has adopted most of the IEC standards, it includes just about all the significant IEC standards.
It's quite well done, if I say so myself. Includes hyperlinks to all the internal references to other documents; word search capabilities; you can even print out the whole thing (well, if you're not a tree hugger :-).
The CD itself is available at no charge (yes, a freebie!). Call your nearest CSA office and they should be able to send you a copy. This gives you access to the standards list and also to the "scope" of each standard. Then, if you want access to any specific standard, or the whole thing, you call a phone number and they will give you a password. Pretty neat!
If you subscribe to the whole thing, I think the cost is around $2K/year, which includes quarterly updates (subscribers get a new CD every 3 months). Cost is less if you only want access to a few specific standards.
I've been using this CD for several years, and find it to be an invaluable resource. Instant access to all the information I need when arguing with Jim's invisible friend, and no need to hire a full time librarian.
End of shameless ad ... Cheers, Egon :-) At 08:59 PM 01/10/1999 , James Allan wrote:
George and others: Perhaps the answer can be found in the fact that I just issued our annual company purchase order for ETSI membership in the amount of $11,000. It might be no wonder the ETSI standards are available for free on the internet and others are not. That having been said, I think a case could be made for your proposal if the number of standards organizations charging for access could be routed through a (choke) for profit clearing house which would collect one subscription fee and partition it out to the standards bodies as required by their agreements with those bodies. Any experts out there looking for a business to get rich in? I would find paying one annual subscription fee more desirable than spending hours per year writing multiple purchase orders for paper that must then be stored and made accessible without risk of them wandering off. We have to store our standards in our company library far removed from the workers in order to prevent wander loss. I would think that unlimited access to all standards for a single fee would be justifiable since the only thing delivered with each access is a lot of those imaginary and short lived things called bits on a wire. Jim Allan Senior Compliance Engineer Milgo Solutions Inc. E-mail [email protected]
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