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New Zealand Standards Help Guide

  1. Click on the New Zealand Standards Online link on your Subject Guide or under Databases A-Z.
  2. If you are not on the Unitec campus, the next screen to come up will be the Unitec Proxy Server. Log in with your username and password. The username here will be your base username – e.g. smithz92
  3. The Standards New Zealand Online Library should come up

     
  4. Scroll down a little until you can see the search box

     
  5. Search for the Standard you want in the search box, using the full Standard Code (eg. NZS 3604) or just the Number (eg. 3604)
  6. Click on the blue hyperlink for the Standard you want. Make sure you choose a current version.
     
  7. Beside the correct Standard look for the blue 'View PDF' link.
  8. The Standard should now download.

PLEASE NOTE: Standard access time can time out. You may need to log in again should this happen.

By Adrian Jenkins - Subject Librarian, Building Construction & Building Trades
Creative Commons Licence CC-BY-NC
Sept 2024

Copyright Compliance Guidelines for the use of these Standards

What you CAN do as an authorized user:

  • Unlimited searching and viewing of Standards included in the service.
  • Print a copy of a standard for your personal use within a course of study. All hard copies must be destroyed at the end of your course.
  • Download and view a standard temporarily on your computer for short-term use. To prevent the use of outdated Standards, we recommend viewing Standards directly from your subscription service.
  • Use a limited amount of content from a Standard in a document you create for internal use. Best practice is to reference the Standards organization (Standards NZ or Standards Australia and Standards NZ jointly), document number, revision status, publication date, and paragraph number.
  • Add a link to the database or permalink to specific Standards in Moodle *

What you CANNOT do as an authorized user:

  • Further, reproduce or photocopy a Standard you download or print.
  • Share access to the service, or a Standard you download or print, with a third party.
  • Develop a personal electronic or hardcopy library of Standards or create a derivative work from the service.
  • Remove or obscure the content or any other markings on a Standard you download or print.
  • Modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or create derivative works based on the Standards.
  • Put a Standard PDF in Moodle *

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