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Wednesday, 25 February 2009 |
 The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has launched a new version of its IEC Webstore, coinciding with the store’s 10th anniversary. Back then, IEC made the move from a paper-based environment to an electronic one in which customers could place orders for standards online.
Since
February 1999, the IEC Webstore has sold CHF 21 million-worth (Swiss
francs, about CDN $22.5 million) of international standards.
On a
functional level, you can place orders faster, with fewer clicks than
before but with greater visibility of all the possible options. There
are simple search tools that provide a variety of alternatives to help
IEC customers purchase standards online or to consult the previews
before they order:
• Most popular categories: listed by subjects such as safety, testing or household.
• Bestsellers
• Recent publications: listed by number under the heading “Just Published”
• News items: recently issued collections or special discounts, IEC Standards+ items, corporate offers.
An
advanced search tool provides further refinement with the possibility
to select publications on the basis of header references such as IEC or
CISPR, TC (Technical Committee) numbers or their titles, and ICS number
references or their code titles. A further possibility lets you enter
publication date ranges to obtain the publication you’re looking for.
A single
click on one of the documents listed in the search results provides
publication details, such as formats available (electronic, hardcopy or
database), price, abstract and so forth. At all times during the
purchasing process, the contents of the shopping basket is visible, so
you know exactly where you stand in relation to publications ordered
and costs.
Because
the order-streaming process works in real time, once an order for an
electronic copy has been completed, the publication is available for
use almost instantaneously (paper versions of publications are shipped
within one working day).
Finally,
for those who want to keep current on future IEC matters, there’s a
subscription button for mailing lists to automatically receive IEC news
releases and newsletters on the personal page where customers create
their profile.
New functionalities are expected to be added in the coming months. (Appeared EB March 2009, Multimedia Resources)
CLICK HERE to visit the IEC Webstore.
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