ISO/IEC Guide 2:2004 (link to purchasing information)
Standardization and related activities -- General vocabulary.

ISO/IEC Directives
Procedural rules to be followed for the development and maintenance of International Standards and the rules for the structure and drafting of these documents.
• ISO/IEC Directives - Part 1. Procedures for the technical work.
• ISO/IEC Directives - Part 2. Rules for the structure and drafting of International Standards.
• ISO/IEC Directives, Supplement. Procedures specific to ISO.
• ISO/IEC Directives, IEC Supplement, Procedures specific to IEC.

ISO/IEC Guide 21-1:2005 (link to purchasing information)
Regional or national adoption of International Standards and other International Deliverables -- Part 1: Adoption of International Standards
ISO/IEC Guide 21-2:2005 (link to purchasing information)
Regional or national adoption of International Standards and other International Deliverables -- Part 2: Adoption of International Deliverables other than International Standards

Using and referencing ISO and IEC standards for technical regulations
English (PDF 1,2 MB)
French (PDF 1 MB)

Copyright, standards and the internet
English (PDF 708 kB)
French (PDF 1,1 MB)

International Classification for Standards (ICS), 2005, 6th ed.
Serves as a structure for catalogues of international, regional and national standards and other normative documents, and as a basis for standing-order systems.

ICS 6th edition:
English (excluding alphabetical index, 62 p., PDF 155 KB)
Alphabetical index - English (PDF 268 KB)
French (excluding alphabetical index, 64 p., PDF 195 KB)
Alphabetical index - French (PDF 417 KB)

ISONET Directory
HTML listing of information centres operating within ISONET, including contact information and details of the types of information and services they provide. Also links to listings of ISO members, IEC members, WTO enquiry points.

ISONET Guide, 2002, 4th ed. (51 p., PDF 146 KB)
This guide deals with the various procedures necessary in the operation of a standards information centre within ISONET.

ISONET Manual, 1998, 2nd ed.
Specifies data elements and exchange formats for describing standards documents, regulatory documents and their subject content for the purposes of exchanging bibliographical information about these documents.
English (120 p., PDF 658 KB)
French (124 p., PDF 617 KB)

Guidelines for the development of databases based on the ISONET Manual, 2001, 1st ed.
(29 p., PDF 140 KB)

Example Access database
(Microsoft Access 97, 1138 KB)
This document provides guidelines for the development of standards databases based on the data elements specified in the ISONET Manual. The example database, described in Annex 2 of this document, was developed by Frans Gooskens of the Nederlands Normalisatie-Instituut (NEN) in cooperation with the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS).