LibGuides: Technical Communication: Standards, ebooks for topic overviews, "OER"

Standards/Codes

Browse options for FREE ACCESS to STANDARDS

Browse standards related to computing, computer science, data analytics, etc
Browse standards related to organizational leadership
Browse and view Standards Incorporated by Reference (IBR) from ANSI and More
Browse read-only resources for a wide-ranging group of "IBR Standards hosted by ANSI". IBR Standards are incorporated by reference in the U.S Code of Federal Regulations. Scroll down further to "Standards hosted by SDOS".
Standards.gov: Standards Organizations that Offer Free Access to Their Standards
Browse a wide range of resources from organizations that develop standards. One of these is GS1: "Think of GS1 Standards as a product’s data “DNA”—the building block for connecting an item with all the information about it."

SEARCH and BROWSE for STANDARDS via University Library SUBSCRIPTION ACCESS

AccessEngineering This link opens in a new window
Regularly updated engineering reference information. Includes instructional, faculty made videos, calculators, interactive tables and charts.

IUCAT search example: ebooks and ejournals accessible to IUPUI, across all platforms, sorted by newest publication date first on subject: electric power distribution.
Experiment with different combinations of All Field, Title, Author, or Subject keywords related to your topic. E.g.: innovation and design
Click the hot-linked book title to access the URL for an ebook and -- applicable when the library opens -- to see the call number location of a hardcopy item at the bottom of the window.

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Sample open access resources (OER) listed below are linked at the Open Textbook Library or at the OER Commons.

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Open Textbook Library: Search or browse by subject Conditions of Use (Creative Commons license) are noted by title.
OER Commons The Advanced Search page provides Additional Search Criteria, including limiting by Creative Commons license use permission at lower right (Unrestricted Use, Conditional Remix and Share... etc.).
Open Educational Resources IUB guide pages: Finding, Evaluating, Creating

SAMPLE OER SEARCH

OER Commons Search: Technical Communication
Search hits include a variety of fairly recent OER resources.

SAMPLE OER RESOURCES

AI writing prompts
Added to OER Commons: 03/2023
How do we respond to generative AI in education? Open educational practices give us a framework for an ongoing process
Added to OER Commons: 09/2023
Howdy or hello?: Technical and business communications - Revised Pilot Edition
Publisher: Texas A&M University
Copyright Year: 2021
Open Textbook Library resource
Web Writing - First Edition
Copyright Year: 2023
Publisher: The Pennsylvania Alliance for Design of Open Textbooks (PA-ADOPT)
Open Textbook Library resource
Writing instruction tips for automated essay graders: How to design an essay for a non-human reader
Provider: OpenOregon
Added to OER Commons: 06/2020
Understanding document accessibility
Publisher: Ryerson University
Copyright Year: 2020
Open Textbook Library resource

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