Industry Standards

Identifying and accessing relevant standards for workplace practice

Learning Outcomes

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Define types of industry standards
• Articulate the use cases of industry standards
• Explain how industry standards are developed
• Distinguish industry standards from other resource types
• Create an industry standards information gathering plan

List of Videos

1. What is an industry standard? (04:58)
2. Defining types of industry standards (04:42)
3. Using industry standards: Who and why? (04:44)
4. Developing industry standards (04:11)
5. Common standards developing organizations (05:13)
6. Comparing standards to related information resources (04:09)
7. Discovering relevant industry standards (04:12)
8. Obtaining freely available standards (03:41)
9. Searching and accessing standards at Purdue (04:40)