Australian Standards (Engineering Workbench)

Australian Standards are protected by copyright law and a licence agreement. The licence agreement is standard across all educational institutions in Australia.

The online Standards are protected by FileOpen which is a Digital Rights Management (DRM) software to control or prevent digital copies from being shared over computer networks.

A watermark with your Holmesglen email address will be inserted on any document you download, down the right hand side of every page.

The licence agreement allows you to: 

• download as many copies of a standard as you like but only for your own study purposes.
• make up to two printouts of a standard you downloaded for your own study purposes.
• make these printouts anywhere.

The licence agreement does not allow:  

• you to make more than two printouts of the same Standard for yourself.
• you to make electronic copies or printouts for your friends, workmates, or classmates.
• your teachers, library staff, or anyone else to download or print a copy to give to you to keep.

The licence agreement also allows you as a teacher to print class sets if:

• your name appears in the watermark of every page of every copy.
• you collect all copies at the end of the course. 

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