Crystallographic resources

The Inorganic Crystal Structure Database

The Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD) contains more than 43,000 references including atomic coordinates to "all" inorganic structures. It is an essential tool for inorganic crystallographers, and of interest to many other scientists and teachers. The Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe (FlZ, the distributors of the database), and the Institut Max von Laue-Paul Langevin Grenoble (ILL) are planning to make ICSD available on the WWW. A demonstration server is already operational on www.ill.fr/dif/icsd.

Sweet Suite and Free

In 1994 the CCP14 (Collaborative Computational Project No. 14) in Powder and Small Molecule Single Crystal Diffraction began to assemble the best and most commonly used freely available programs and to write the linking software to combine them into a single. integrated user-friendly suite. The suite is freely available to academic users as a series of executables, compiled and linked for a variety of commonly used operating systems. The current CCP14 suite consists of thirty two programs. The CCP14 staff are available to answer questions. Users can contact CCP14 by e-mail (ccp14@dl.ac.uk). Full details can be found on the WWW starting from URI: http//www.dl.ac.uk/CCP/CCP14/intro.html.

The Materials Research Society has produced a CD-ROM containing the entire contents of the Journal of Materials Research for 1996 and an 11 year Cumulative Index. For more information: http://www.mrs.org/publications.jmr.