British Standards Online (BSOL)

Do you need to access multiple standards, across different departments and offices?

Are various departments across your organization purchasing standards independently, therefore finding it difficult to budget for and validate the value of standards for the business?

Do you find it time consuming keeping your standards up to date?

Are your employees working remotely, without access to a standards management system, causing delays to projects?

Do you need access to ISO, EN, BS, PAS, ASTM and IEC standards?

BSOL is a simple online tool that acts as your standards management system. Access, view and download standards with multiple user access, across multiple sites, facilitating the distribution of the knowledge across your business.

BSOL contains British standards and international and European standards that have been adopted as British standards. It also includes ISO, EN, PAS, ASTM and IEC standards that haven't been adopted as British standards.

You can subscribe to our pre-built modules or build a personalized standards collection, saving your organization money, reducing risk by enabling access to the latest version of standards with bibliographical data and instilling trust with your clients partnering with BSI.

Our standards are written with leading industry knowledge and are trusted and used by businesses globally. A subscription to BSOL will save you money, reduce risk within your organization and instill trust with your clients.

Here are some of the features available within BSOL:

• Miss nothing with Tracked Changes

Get an alert whenever a standard changes – Keeping up with what’s relevant and monitor what has changed can be a struggle, which is why we’ve introduced personalized individual and group email alerts, and Tracked Changes documents into BSOL. Tracked Changes is a version of a standard that indicates a change has been made, during the standards revision process, between the active standard and its previous version. Additions, deletions, and other formatting and/or content revisions are clearly displayed as underlined and strike through texts, ensuring all changes made between the two documents are quickly and easily identified.

For the full list of Tracked Changes please click here.

• Adoption Gap

To make sure that our customers can comply with and take advantage of the latest standards content, all “pure” ISO and IEC standards will be made available within BSOL for customers who also take international or European standards as an addition to their subscription. This means that any delays between the adoption of standards will not affect BSOL customers. You will be able to view the bibliographic data for each standard or download the full text.

Customers will be able to add the standards to their ISO* or IEC* custom collection while BSI goes through the formal adoption process at which point the “pure” ISO or IEC will be removed and replaced by the British adoption. Of course, any standards that are not adopted by BSI will remain in your collection.

*ISO and IEC custom collections available at an additional subscription cost.

• Multiple search options

Access to the standards you need, quickly with our search functionality. Search by number, status, date, industry sector, national committee, subject (ICS category) or publisher.

• Reduce risk

Track past, present and future changes. With access to historic and emerging standards, you can see the guidance that informed previous decisions, as well as changes that could shape your future moves.

• Evolve at your own pace

Whichever standards you choose, you can still set up alerts and access all the bibliographic data from every standard in the system – so you can update your choices at any time.

• Free and unlimited training

BSOL is easy to use – but our training team are here to give you extra support if you need it.

• Password Manager

Password Manager gives BSOL customers easy access to our products by securely saving, remembering and auto-filling your password.

• Document request for Custom Collection subscribers

A Custom Collection subscription allows the administrator to add standards (at any point through the subscription year) to the custom collection, up to the level of collection size, quickly and efficiently.

These are only some of the unique features BSOL has to offer to improve your efficiency when working with standards. Reduce risk within your organization and instill trust with your clients with BSOL.

Continuous Improvements with British Standards Online (BSOL) 2020/21 - read more on enhanced functionality and features improvements to BSOL