Australian Standards and Building Code of Australia: Australian Standards

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Accessing Australian Standards

Federation Library provides access to Australian Standards Online through the Intertek Inform i2i platform. Access is for Federation University staff and students only.  

Two users can access (download or view in the online viewer) Australian Standards Online at the same time. If all licences are in use you will have to wait until a licence becomes free to download any standards.  

User limits are not activated by browsing Standards in the i2i platform. The limit is only reached when more than two users are downloading or viewing standards via the online viewer. 

Intertek Inform provides access to Standards, legislative and property publications; auditing; product and management system certification; supply chain management; compliance, ethics and governance solutions; training and improvement solutions.

Accessing Australian standards requires Acrobat Reader (available in the Software Center for ITS-maintained computers) the default Global Object Security Policy for Adobe Acrobat Reader will also have to be disabled to view downloaded standards. Further information about downloading Standards and disabling GOSP can be found via Intertek Digital Rights Management (DRM) - Vitrium.

Intertek Inform i2i platform

Use the link below to go directly to i2i or search Australian Standards in the A-Z Database list. You do not need to create an individual account, just follow the link to access standards with your library login.

Intertek i2i platform

View instructions for downloading Standards below.

Downloading is the preferred option for viewing Standards. 

If you experience any issues please check the FAQ - About Digital Rights Management.

This guide covers the kinds of error messages you may experience when attempting to download Australian Standards.

Ensure you have downloaded a supported PDF reader such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. 

Opening from browser

Downloaded Standards need to be saved to your device. The following error will appear if you attempt to access Standards from the browser recent downloads icon.

Please navigate to your computer Downloads folder and open and/or save the document to your device. It can now be accessed and opened with a compatible PDF viewer. 

Global Object Security Policy 

If you experience the following error message when attempting to view standards downloaded to your computer you may need to disable the default Global Object Security Policy settings in Adobe Acrobat.

Instructions for disabling Global Object Security Policy are available for both Windows and MAC here: Digital Rights Management (DRM) - Vitrium.

Download instructions

1. Click on the title of the standard you wish to view.

2. Click yellow Download button.

3. The document is ready for download when the yellow bar is fully loaded and it says “Ready for download”

4. Click “Download document”.

5. If you have already installed Adobe Acrobat your download will begin. If not please install to view your document.

This is the preferred method for viewing and printing standards. The two-user limit is only activated when downloading or viewing standards in the online viewer.

Searching Intertek Inform i2i 

This is the default search screen where you can search on either the standard number, or keywords that appear in the standard’s title.

For example, the standard AS 4775 Emergency eyewash and shower equipment

could be retrieved by:

• Document number through entering 4775 in the first box, or;
• Keyword in title by entering emergency or eyewash in the second box

The i2i platform will auto fill suggested results that you can click on or click the yellow Search button to browse standards.

Using filters

Click on each filter to narrow your search down to available or useful items, for example:

• Publisher – AS Australian standards (full access through library subscription)
• Status – current, superseded, withdrawn

Accessing Standards from the document summary page

Click on the title of the standard you wish to view to open the document summary page. You have two options for viewing standards:

Download	Preferred method. Click on the Download button and follow the prompts to download a PDF copy locked to your user account. You will need Adobe Acrobat installed.
View online	Click on the View Online button to view the standard in the online e-reader. No extra software is required but Google Chrome is the preferred browser. You cannot download from this view and can only print one page
No access	If the document is not available via the library subscription i2i will suggest either identical or equivalent standards from the AS collection.

Limits to use

Please view the full i2i Usage Terms and Conditions and Fair Use Policy

Be aware that:

• Documents will be watermarked with business & user email address
•  Documents are locked by user
• Only staff and students of Federation University can download, save & print document Standards cannot be shared, uploaded to an intranet or sent to another user, as document is locked to initial user.
• Paper copies of standards cannot be distributed and are only provided to the original user.

• Download electronic copies of Standards for temporary off-line purposes. These copies will remain on your computer for 1 year before expiring. Downloaded copies may not be used to build up a reference collection and are encoded with a predetermined expiry date, after which they cease to be accessible.