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In a time of vast databases of paywalled scientific papers you're telling me nobody has a collection of ISO standards?


LibGen has a section for standards, but I’ve rarely found it useful.

A better hack is to approach your local standards body. BIS in India publishes the ISO standards mostly-as-is as adopted by Indian Law/Regulations. They don’t make it easily accessible on the Internet, but it’s available if you ask them for it.


If there is, I haven't found it yet. Many national standards I've seen don't seem to even have DOIs assigned.

My tiny stash of climbing relevant EN safety standards only exists because of a scrappy Russian climbing community web server someone uploaded to.


There are torrents of related ones floating around, although they tend to be huge and not very seeded. For computing-related ones, especially popular subjects, you can often find a copy someone has hosted sneakily amongst other unrelated documents if you search hard enough.


Most would likely not even understand them as they are written in the best example of newspeak (from '1984') I have ever seen.




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