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International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Annexes, Standards, etc

Most of the current ICAO annexes, standards, and other publications are available through Engineering Workbench, a service for engineering and design professionals.

Members of the UND community (having an email address ending in @und.edu) are able to sign up for, and then access, ICAO publications through this website:

Engineering Workbench

You need to sign up with your UND email and a password of your choice when you first click the link:

Screenshot of login screen highlighting "Create a New Account" link

It does not have to be your UND password; like subscriptions to the New York Times and Aviation Week & Space Technology, the access is controlled by the vendor, not through checking UND IP addresses.
When you sign up, the vendor will send you an access code, that sometimes will take a little while to appear in your inbox.  Once you have that, and enter it to complete your signup process, you can sign in through the link above whenever you want to access ICAO materials.

Searching and Reading Engineering Workbench materials
 

If you know the name of the document you need (e.g., "ICAO Annex 13") you can type that into the search bar and hit enter, and it should be one of the first results.  However, many of these documents are available in several languages, so make sure you click the right one!

If you search for a keyword ("UAS," "safety investigator," etc) it will search not just what UND subscribes to, but the thousands of other products the vendor offers for sale (ICAO and otherwise).  To restrict your search to just what we have available, click the "My Subscriptions" box on the upper left of the results window:

Closeup of results page, highlighting the "My Subscriptions" option

 

Notes

  • Only one user can view an article at a time.  Once you find a result you would like to read, please download it and read it in a separate viewer.
  • If you use a citation manager, the metadata that Engineering Workbench sends to Zotero, Mendeley, etc is of a pretty poor quality and you will probably have to make a lot of edits.
  • Many of the materials are available "redlined," meaning they show some of the historical changes.  Most of these are generated automatically, so there may be some irregularities.
  • This does not include all ICAO materials.  ICAO makes their products available to institutional subscribers through this vendor in three large packages, rather than one at a time, and getting all three is prohibitively expensive.  If you are working on a project that requires other standards, you will have to purchase them for the project through ICAO (as before).  The library is, generally speaking, unable to purchase standards and codes for single users.

 

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to the aerospace librarian, Alfred Wallace, for more details.

Legacy print ICAO materials

ICAO -- most recent editions and updates were ordered 3/2017.  Print copies will ordinarily no longer be maintained, and materials are now on Engineering Workbench.