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Resources for Standards and Patents
This guide was created to provide students who are taking BMEG260: Introduction to Medical Device Design with a place to search for Standards and Patents.
This guide is by no means comprehensive; rather, it is intended to serve as a starting point for your research and assignments. For further assistance on finding Standards, contact William Simpson, or Sabine Lanteri, for assistance on finding Patents.
The Library does provide online access to the complete set of ASTM Standards through ASTM Compass. To determine if individual standards from other organizations are in the collection, a title search in DELCAT, the library catalog, is the best option. If you only have the standard number, then you can use the ANSI Webstore (located on the "Standards Aggregator Databases" tab of this Guide) to search by the standard number and obtain the title of the standard.
ANSI's University Outreach Program
Upon request, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) can provide faculty with complimentary access to selected international standards for use in curricula with the objective of raising the awareness and impact of standards in their field of study. The program is open to all disciplines and can provide classroom access to select ISO, IEC or ADA (American Dental Association) standards.
Please be aware that instructors must provide a list of specific standards that will be used and the program may require quite a bit of advance notice in order to make standards available.
From Off Campus
Most Library online resources can be accessed from off campus by current UD faculty, staff, and students. When using links on these pages, you may be prompted for your UDelNetID and password. If you encounter problems accessing Library databases, e-journals, or e-books, please consult the VPN and Proxy Server page or the Library Proxy FAQs page.