ASTM Standards Search

ASTM Standards Search compared with Accuris Standards Expert
ASTM Standards Search	Accuris Standards Expert
Standards covered: The ASTM site covers ASTM standards only, collected in the Annual Book of ASTM Standards (more than 13,000 standards in over 80 volumes). Fields include materials, mechanical testing, construction and chemistry.	Standards covered: Accuris describes its Engineering Workbench as a library of 3 million or more standards and 65 million or more technical documents, with partnerships with over 400 standards bodies such as ANSI, API, ASME, IEEE and NFPA.
Status of ASTM content: ASTM is the issuer, so its own catalogue is the reference for the latest edition. Digital licensed access is sold through ASTM Compass.	Status of ASTM content: A trade report of October 2025 states that Accuris will no longer offer ASTM standards from the end of 2026. After that date ASTM texts have to come from ASTM or from resellers.
Free information: Reference, title, scope and the year of the latest edition can be read without registration or fee. Anything beyond this requires payment.	Free information: Search is part of a licensed product. Prices are not stated on the product page, which refers to Base, Pro and Enterprise plans for Engineering Intelligence.
Search and analysis functions: The ASTM tool is a catalogue lookup. Its purpose is to confirm that a standard is relevant before buying it.	Search and analysis functions: The platform adds semantic search that finds clauses without exact keywords, requirement extraction, clause-level change alerts, side-by-side comparison and a mobile app with offline access to licensed content.
When to choose it: Choose it to verify scope and current edition of a test method or material specification at no cost.	When to choose it: Choose it when one tool must serve many publishers and requirement tracking is needed, bearing in mind the planned end of ASTM content.

ASTM Standards Search compared with Accuris Standards Expert

ASTM Standards Search

Accuris Standards Expert

Standards covered: The ASTM site covers ASTM standards only, collected in the Annual Book of ASTM Standards (more than 13,000 standards in over 80 volumes). Fields include materials, mechanical testing, construction and chemistry.

Standards covered: Accuris describes its Engineering Workbench as a library of 3 million or more standards and 65 million or more technical documents, with partnerships with over 400 standards bodies such as ANSI, API, ASME, IEEE and NFPA.

Status of ASTM content: ASTM is the issuer, so its own catalogue is the reference for the latest edition. Digital licensed access is sold through ASTM Compass.

Status of ASTM content: A trade report of October 2025 states that Accuris will no longer offer ASTM standards from the end of 2026. After that date ASTM texts have to come from ASTM or from resellers.

Free information: Reference, title, scope and the year of the latest edition can be read without registration or fee. Anything beyond this requires payment.

Free information: Search is part of a licensed product. Prices are not stated on the product page, which refers to Base, Pro and Enterprise plans for Engineering Intelligence.

Search and analysis functions: The ASTM tool is a catalogue lookup. Its purpose is to confirm that a standard is relevant before buying it.

Search and analysis functions: The platform adds semantic search that finds clauses without exact keywords, requirement extraction, clause-level change alerts, side-by-side comparison and a mobile app with offline access to licensed content.

When to choose it: Choose it to verify scope and current edition of a test method or material specification at no cost.

When to choose it: Choose it when one tool must serve many publishers and requirement tracking is needed, bearing in mind the planned end of ASTM content.