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South Regional TAFE : Your Library: Australian Standards

Welcome to our guide on how to use the Library and search online for your subject areas. If you need help, please ask one of the staff.

Welcome

Click the icon below to register and login.

All staff and students will need to complete a one-off registration with their TAFE email address to access the Standards database.
Remember to select South Regional TAFE as the Company and the Business Unit when registering.
Students must set up their Microsoft Office 365 account prior to registering.

Mandatory Registration to Access Standards

Click on the database link at the top of this page to go to the new registration/login page.

  • Click on New Registration to commence.
  • You must use your staff or student email address. Personal email addresses are not accepted.
  • Create a password according to the rules provided.
  • Follow the prompts and select South Regional TAFE from the Company and Business Unit fields drop-down menus. This is essential.
  • Tick the Confirm button and click Complete Registration
  • A verification email will be sent to your registered email address. Check your junk mail if not in your inbox!
  • Confirm your sign-in registration as prompted in the verification notification email.
  • A successful confirmation notice will display.
  • Click on the Log In button to sign in and begin searching.

Need help registering? Contact the Library.

Accessing Australian Standards

  • Standards are to be used for educational purposes only.
  • To open a standard on a personal device you must have installed an approved PDF reader.
  • Select an approved PDF reader below to install on your personal device.
  • The default settings for viewing PDFs once downloaded must be set to open in the reader and not the browser.
  • You may need to further update the PDF reader settings. Click on the link below for more information.

Mobile App

  • Once registered you can then download the app to access standards anywhere, anytime.

Watch this video for more information about the App.

Source: Intertek Inform. (2024, December 12). i2i mobile app [Video]. YouTube.

More information and FAQ's about the App can be found at this link.

Search and Request

Search

  • You can search all standards; however, you will only be able to view the standards in our subscription.
  • Search for a standard by document number or by title. There are a number of filters you can apply to your search if required.
  • Click on Collection to view the curated topic lists of standards we subscribe to.

For more information on how to search watch the video below.

Requests

  • Lecturers can request course related standards to be added to our subscription from within the database.
  • Students may submit requests; however, requests will be forwarded to the lecturer for approval first as they must be course related.
  • Requests unrelated to courses or business of the college will not be accepted.

Source: Intertek Inform. (2024, May 22). i2i tutorial - search [Video]. YouTube.

Acknowledgement

We thank Central Regional Tafe for allowing some of their guide content to be adapted for use in this guide.

Viewing Standards

  • Standards can be viewed on a PC, laptop, tablet or mobile device.
  • Click on the View Online button to open the standard in your browser.
  • When only the Download button is available, this means that the standard is contained within a Zip file and not able to be viewed online.
  • When viewing a standard, you can annotate, highlight, insert comments and share these with others.

For more information watch this video.

Source: Intertek Inform. (2023, March 22). i2i advantage tutorial: View online [Video]. YouTube.

Downloading and Printing

Downloading

All standards have Digital Rights Management enabled and this affects how you access and download standards. This cannot be bypassed.

  • Downloaded standards can only be opened within a PDF reader. They cannot be opened in a browser.
  • Before downloading, ensure you have edited the PDF reader settings by disabling the “global object security policy".
  • Click on the Download button to download to your device.
  • Some standards may be downloaded within a Zip file. You will need to extract the files to save to your device.
  • Downloaded standards are locked to the specific device they are downloaded to. The download will last for our subscription period. You will need to download again when the subscription is renewed.
  • Downloaded standards are unable to be shared or stored on a network. Access is restricted to the user who downloaded it.

Printing

  • If you are downloading a Standard at home, you will need to have an approved PDF reader installed.
  • Make sure 'Enable all features' is selected when the standard has been opened.
  • Printed standards are watermarked with the following statement: Copyrighted material licensed to Intertek Inform^South Regional TAFE.Further reproduction, distribution, storage or use on a network is prohibited. Printed / viewed by: [user email address] @ [Date/Time]
  • Lecturers may print multiple copies on campus for classroom use. These should be collected at the end of each class.

Digital Rights Management - Vitrium

  • Vitrium is the Digital Rights Management software used for accessing standards to ensure that users are not able to breach the publishers licence requirements.
  • You must use an approved PDF reader and have edited the settings as outlined in the help link below.

Standards Watch Lists

  • All users can add standards to their personal watch list. You can then monitor any changes or updates to a standard. These changes will also be sent to your registered email address.
  • Click on the green eye icon located near the title of the standard. It will turn grey indicating that it is now in your watch list.
  • You can view your watched standards by scrolling down to "My Watched Documents" on the Intertek Inform home page.

Watch the video below for more information on setting up your watchlist.

Source: Intertek Inform. (2024, April 17). i2i tutorial: Watchlist & alerts [Video]. YouTube.