British Standards Online
>> Go to British Standards Online (BSOL) App)
Restrictions on use
Access to British Standards Online is provided for educational purposes only. It must not be used for the purpose of University business processes (including but not limited to Health & Safety, Estate Management) or for monetary reward (including but not limited to knowledge transfer partnerships)
- Subject coverage: British Standards (BS); British adopted European Standards (BS EN) and British adopted International Standards (BS ISO)
- Type of content: British Standards
- Level of access: full text.
Note: follow the link, above, to access the British Standards Online (BSOL) App
Personally owned devices (including access for Mac users):
- download Adobe Acrobat Reader if you don’t already have it on your computer (this is available free from Microsoft App store)
- then click on https://bsol.bsigroup.com/
- use the Institutional Login and select ‘Bournemouth University’
- sign in with your BU credentials
- load the FileOpen plug-in as instructed on the BSOL site
- search and download the British Standard you want to your computer
- right-click on download and use Adobe Acrobat Reader to open the British Standard.
EBSCO Host Databases
This is the hyperlink to the EBSCO database set configured to search in every database we have access to.
Espacenet - Patent Search
- Subject coverage: patents
- Size/scope: European Patent Office database of over 70 million documents from all European countries, including Great Britain. Provides information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to the present.
Patent Server: United States Patent and Trademark Office
- Subject coverage: US patents
- Type of content: patents, searchable by patent number to 1975 and by full text from 1975
- Date range: 1790 onwards
- Level of access: full text.