British Standards – a Welcome New Interface

The British Standards Institution has made a significant change to the interface of BSOL, or the British Standards Online Database. As before, you can search for standards using either the Simple or Advanced search screens, but the interface is much more attractive and intuitive to use, with on-screen examples to help with your searches. You can search for standard numbers, text terms or phrases. In addition, you can browse the entire collection using the BSOL browsing functionality to look for standards by module or ICS code.

In addition, you can refine your search criteria by searching again within your results set or by filtering your results using a range of categories.

You can run a simple search within your result set by using the “search within your results” tool in the refine your search area to the left of the search results . Search terms used here will be added to the Search History.

You can also filter your search results using the categories described below. You can perform multiple filters and each filter step will be recorded in the Search History. The filter categories are:
- Subject
- Industry Sector
- Status
- Committee
- Module
- ICS code

With British Standards becoming key documents in so many areas of research, the move to an easier-to-use interface is a welcome one.

October 1, 2009 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Author vibel 

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