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ASTM Compass

ASTM standards are at the heart of ASTM Compass: they are the platform's “home” standards, developed by ASTM International. The same platform also gives you the standards of 14 other major standards bodies, from ISO and IEC to BSI, API and AASHTO, with a single search engine that cuts research time and tools that help you work more efficiently.

  • Notes and images on the standards you use
  • Text highlighting in different colours
  • Sharing with working groups
  • Alerts on new standards and revisions
  • MARC records and COUNTER usage statistics

All of ASTM's non-standards content (scientific literature) is available on the ASTM Digital Library platform.

What ASTM offers

Standards

ASTM Compass

The platform with more than 250,000 standards from ASTM and other standards bodies.

ASTM
The home standardsAmerican Society for Testing and Materials Standards

The standards developed by ASTM International are the heart of the platform. Annual Book of Standards: more than 80 volumes and over 12,000 standards, available individually, by section or as a complete set.

Standards from other bodies. Alongside ASTM standards, ASTM Compass gives access to those of 14 other national and international bodies, with the same search and tools.

  • AASHTOAmerican Association of State Highway and Transportation OfficialsUnited States
  • AATCCAmerican Association of Textile Chemists and ColoristsUnited States
  • APIAmerican Petroleum InstituteUnited States
  • AWWAAmerican Water Works AssociationUnited States
  • BSIBritish Standards InstitutionUnited Kingdom
  • CGACompressed Gas AssociationUnited States
  • ENCEN – Comité Européen de NormalisationEurope
  • IECInternational Electrotechnical CommissionInternational
  • IESIlluminating Engineering SocietyNorth America
  • ISOInternational Organization for StandardizationInternational
  • MILU.S. Department of Defense Military SpecificationsUnited States · Defence
  • UK MDSUK Ministry of Defence StandardsUnited Kingdom · DefenceFree for ASTM customers
  • UNEAsociación Española de NormalizaciónSpain
  • UOPUniversal Oil ProductsUnited States
Scientific literature

ASTM Digital Library

The platform with all of ASTM's non-standards content (scientific literature).

Journals
11 peer-reviewed eJournals, with full archives back to the first issue. ASTM journals are indexed in databases such as the Science Citation Index, COMPENDEX and Chemical Abstracts.
STPs and proceedings
More than 29,000 Selected Technical Papers and symposium papers, downloadable as single papers or complete volumes.
Manuals
Manuals and monographs from the ASTM Data Series, written by leading experts.

Engineering fields

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  • Health and safety
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  • Soil
  • Solar

Standards in teaching and research

Thousands of universities, research centres and companies use ASTM standards, journals and proceedings every day in research, materials science and laboratory testing. A study of around 1,500 universities and companies showed that students who know standards have a real advantage when studying and developing new materials.

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