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British Standards

British Standards Online (or BSOL), provides access to all British Standards and their international and European equivalents.  You can read the full text online or download for offline reading.  If you prefer to download, please see the relevant guidance document on the Additional Documents tab.

You can access British Standards Online from the link below.

If you are interested in finding out more about how to use British Standards Online have a look at the video recording on the next tab.  There are also slides and an edited transcript if you prefer.

This is a recording of a live Database Focus workshop and includes a live demonstration.  Closed captions are available.

Updated October 2021.

The video below is based on slides and does not include the live demonstration.  As such it is a shorter version of the recording above.

Please note: this presentation was updated in October 2022 and differs slightly from the slides used in the video recordings.

The document above provides guidance on using FileOpen and your browser settings to enable you to download the PDF documents from the BSOL site.


BSOL have produced a full length user guide.  The first pages (1-15) are aimed at account holders but from page 16 onwards you can find help for searching etc.