BSI BUSINESS INFORMATION BRITISH STANDARDS ON LINE

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BSI BUSINESS INFORMATIONBRITISH STANDARDS ON LINE
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British Standards
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• Why are standards important to business?
• DTI independent research identified standards
  contributing to business in three ways
• 1. Encouraging innovation
• 2. Foundation for growth
• 3. Promoting market access

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British Standards
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• Why are standards important in EU?
• Increase compliance, safety, quality, customer
  assurance
• Products or services intended for sale in Britain
  or EU require compliance to the New Approach
  Directives (law). 
• Compliance is assumed if a product is designed to
  the harmonized standard (EN prefix).
• Trade more effectively in EU markets if products
  meet the relevant requirements

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British Standards
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• Why are British Standards important?
• All BSs are the official English version of
  harmonized standards (European ENs) and therefore
  provides the most accurate and original version
  of necessary standards for compliance to the New
  Approach Directives

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British Standards
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• Why use standards for research work?
• Most academic institutions have three issues
• 1) Industry relevant tools
• 2) Time resource dilemma
• 3) Institution reputation
• Standards are a compliment to the research found
  in academic journals and therefore should be used
  with such material

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Standards Development
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• Need identified by industry
• Committee Established
• BSI staff act as secretariats
• Draft standard made available for public comment
• Standard Published

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BSI World Leaders
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• 1979 BS 5750 first national standard for
  quality management (became ISO 90002000)
• 1992 BS 7750 first national standard for
  environment management (became ISO 14000)
• 1998 BS 8800 first national standard for
  occupational health safety management
  (became OHSAS 18001)
• 1998 BS 7799 first national standard for
  information security management (became ISO
  17799)
• 1999 BS 8600 first national standard for
  complaints management
• 2000 Revision of ISO 9000 Quality Standards

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Key Abbreviations
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• AMD Amendment to British Standard
• CORR Corrigendum
• EN European Standard
• BS EN British Standard implementation of a
  European Standard

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Key Abbreviations
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• ISO International Organization for
  Standardization
• BS ISO British Standard adoption of an
  International Standard
• BS EN ISO British Standard implementation of a
  European adoption of an International
  Standard
• IEC International Electrotechnical Commission

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British Standards Online
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Remember Intuitive and user-friendly, keeping
training to a minimum!
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British Standards Online
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• Database is updated daily
• Specifications for products, dimensions, and
  performance methods
• Codes of Practice
• Guides
• Glossaries

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British Standards Online
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• In excess of 42,000 document data
• Keyword search to find relevant documents
• 12 Descriptors to narrow results
• PDF access to BS drafts, current and withdrawn

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British Standards Online
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• Divided into GBM (Great British Module) Modules
• Based on subject categories
• ICS codes dictate which module the document falls
  into based on subject area
• A document can have multiple ICS codes
• The number of standards in a module may vary.

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User Access
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• There are 3 levels of user access
• Guest
• Registered Guest
• Subscriber

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User Access
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Guests
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• Anyone can be a Guest
• Guests are anonymous
• Guests can
• Search the database and receive limited results

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Registered Guest
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• Registration is free of charge
• Registered Guests can
• Search the database, receive results, view
  summaries

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Subscriber
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• Paid annual subscription
• Available through Selling Agents
• Subscribers can
• Search the database, receive results, view
  summaries
• download or view documents within their
  subscription

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View/Download Document Online
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• For Subscribers only
• PDF Icon will display against search
  results if the document is within their
  subscription.
• Using Adobe Acrobat V6 and above
• Search, copy and paste from the PDF files
• Print one or more pages
• Printed document is watermarked

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Terms Conditions
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• Users will be prompted to read our TCs
• Customer Agrees move to registration page
• Customer Disagrees return to home page

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Registration - User Information
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Registration Page
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Enter the User Name and Password you have just
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Click Login
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My Account
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By going into My Account you are able to Modify
your password
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Search Examples
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I am looking for BS 7799 Quick Search Step 1
Go to SEARCH on the left hand side of the page
Step 2 Enter the standard number that you want
to search for e.g. BS 7799 Step 3 Click
on Search.
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Expanded Search
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Viewing Search Results
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• VIEW MORE DETAIL CLICK ON THE ITEM SUMMARY

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Item Summary Page
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My Standards Administration
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• Unique facility to track changes to chosen
  standards
• Linked to user name and password
• Works in two ways
• 1. Track-it (Email Alert Service)
• 2. manually search using date range
• Eight easy steps

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Step 1
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• From Home page Select My Standards

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Step 2
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• Add a Subject Area (ICS code) to your Inbox, if
  needed

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Step 3
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• Create a New List and/or

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Step 4
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• Click on a list in the Existing Lists box

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Step 5
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• Click the checkboxes for the documents or
  subjects in the Inbox that you want to add to a
  list

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Step 6
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• Click the Add to List button

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Step 7
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• Click on a list then the List Details button to
  view the content of a list and for further
  options

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Step 8
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• This shows you the Standards held within the
  list, allowing you to join the Email Alert
  Service and choose frequency

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Adding to My Standards from Search
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• Select the standard that you want to add and
  click the box under the file with the arrow
  pointing right.

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Adding to My Standards from Search
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• Scroll down and select Add to Inbox

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Adding to My Standards from Search
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• The standards will appear in Inbox list

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• Institution using generic login
• Blind login
• Via Athens

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Technical Specifications
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Minimum systems requirements i486 or Pentium
personal computer Microsoft Windows 95 with
10MB of RAM, Windows 98 with 10MB of RAM, or
Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3 or later and
16 MB of RAM Microsoft Internet Explorer
version 4.0 with Adobe Acrobat Reader or
Netscape Navigator
- Communicator version 4.0 with Adobe Acrobat
Reader version 5.0 or above Standard Windows
printer able to print raster images 20MB
hard disk space 56KB Internet connection 12
colour monitor Two-button mouse