Standards and patents

Standards in full text

The library has concluded a contract with the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) which enables all university members to use the digitized German standards in full text.

DIN standards/VDI guidelines, DIN-ISO, DIN-EN-ISO (current DIN standards and VDI guidelines including draft standards, preliminary standards, supplementary sheets and withdrawn DIN standards) can be found in the

Draft standards can also be viewed in the DIN draft standards portal.

For example, you can search for VDE standards, DVGW and DWA documents in Nautos. However, their full texts are licensed in separate databases:

In the database

you can find a few ISO/IEC/IEEE standards in full text by restricting the search to "Standards".

A list of freely accessible ISO/IEC standards can be found under Publicly Available Standards