British Standards Online (BSOL)

British Standards Online (BSOL) is a bibliographic, citation, and full-text database of draft, current, and withdrawn British standards as well as adopted European and international standards. It includes a full range of technical and business content and covers a broad range of disciplines for all industry sectors. Updated daily, BSOL contains the full-text (PDFs) of more than 100,000 standards.

Finding ISO standards

BSOL includes ISO standards which have been adopted as British standards. You can search for adopted ISO standards by the standard number (e.g. ISO 21222:2020) or by the title of the standard. If the ISO standard has been adopted as a British standard, you should find the relevant British standard (e.g. BS ISO 21222:2020) in the list of search results.

Printing and Downloading

Each user may print only one hard copy or download only a single electronic copy of any licensed document. These copies may not be used to build up a hard copy reference collection that exceeds 5% of the number of licensed documents within the collection subscribed to. If the University’s agreement with BSI ceases, all hard copies must be destroyed and all downloaded copied deleted.

Copying

Authorised Users may copy a maximum of 10% of the content of any licensed document and paste it to another document for internal use within the University of Hull. The copied content in the new document must contain "Copyright BSI © Date (where date is the date of copyrighted material)". If the University’s agreement with BSI ceases, all copies must be deleted.

Advisory

BSOL is solely for non-commercial, educational use, and should not be used for the purposes of the University’s business, management, or administration.

The software needed to download and print documents is available on all University PCs and laptops. To download and print document on your personal PCs, you will need to install the FileOpen plugin.