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Crystallography

Compiled by Ivan Kassal

This guide focuses on crystallographic resources available at Swain Library and on the Internet.

Contents

Library Catalogs

• Stanford Library Catalog
• Melvyl: University of California’s Web-based catalog. Limited to Stanford users
• World Catalog (OCLC). Limited to Stanford users
• LibWeb: Library WWW Servers

Journals

Search SearchWorks, Stanford’s Library Catalog, for the most up-to-date information to determine if the Stanford Libraries own a print or electronic journal. Catalog records have a hot link in them. Search tip: to retrieve only e-journals, add “http” as a keyword to your search.

• Swain Journals List contains all journals held at Swain.
• E-Journals in the Stanford University Libraries
• HighWire Press: Free Online Full-Text Articles
• All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources
• JCR: Journal Citation Reports. Limited to Stanford users. Use to identify the most important crystallographic journals.
• Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory. Limited to Stanford users. Use Ulrich’s to identify where your favorite journals are indexed.

Abstracts and Indexes

• Chemical Abstracts Online. Limited to Stanford students, faculty, and staff. Must download search software.
• Derwent Innovations Index (Derwent World Patents and Patents Citation Index). Limited to Stanford users.
• Engineering Village (EI/Compendex) (1884+) engineering. Limited to Stanford users.
• Ingenta. Table of contents database for nearly 25,000 titles.
• INSPEC. Limited to Stanford users.
• Web of Science (SciSearch). Limited to Stanford users.
• All Databases in the Stanford University Libraries

Crystal Structure Databases

• Protein Data Bank
• Cambridge Structural Database Available to Stanford users.
• Inorganic Crystal Structure Database: ICSD Available to Stanford users.
• Nucleic Acid Database
• Metalloprotein Database and Browser
• Macromolecular Structure Database
• The Pauling File
• International Centre for Diffraction Data
• CRYSTMET
• NIST surface structure database [electronic resource]. Swain Permanent Reserve QD921 .W38 1996
• American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
• IUCr Databases

Software

• ORTEP-III (Oak Ridge Thermal Ellipsoid Plot Program for Crystal Structure Illustrations)
• SHELX-97 (programs for crystal structure determination from single-crystal diffraction data)
• PLATON (SHELX-97 compatible multipurpose crystallographic tool)
• HKL
• Molecular visualization
  • MOLMOL
  • MolScript
  • PyMOL
  • Raster3D
  • Swiss PDB Viewer
• Extensive Software Listings
  • List of Software from the Protein Data Bank
  • Software Database for Crystallography
  • Collaborative Computational Project Number 14

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• Chemical Acronyms and Abbreviations Database
• Inter Active Terminology for Europe (Multilingual terminological database of the European Commission’s Translation Service) [formerly EuroDic Autom]
• McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. In AccessScience: The Online Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Limited to Stanford users.
• Oxford English Dictionary. Latest edition. Limited to Stanford users.
• Britannica Online (Subscriber version)
• Encyclopedia of Analytical Instrumentation
• Encyclopedia of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry
• More Dictionaries…
• More Encyclopedias…

Handbooks and Data

• Crystal Lattice Structures
• Mineralogy Database
• Biological Macromolecule Crystallization Database and the NASA Archive for Protein Crystal Growth Data
• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
• NIST Data Gateway
• NIST X-Ray Form Factor, Attenuation and Scattering Tabulation
• X-Ray Interactions with Matter
• Elastic Photon-Atom Scattering Database
• Neutron scattering lengths and cross sections
• Atlas of crystal structure types for intermetallic phases. Engineering Library Reference TN690.4 .D33 1991
• Crystal structures. Swain QD951 .W82 1982
• Dana’s new mineralogy. Earth Sciences Library RQE372 .D23 1997
• International tables for crystallography. Swain Reference QD908 .I56 F 2002
• Point-group theory tables. Swain Reference QD911 .A48 1994
• Tables of interatomic distances and configuration in molecules and ions. Swain Reference QD65 .T3
• More Handbooks…

Selected Web Guides

• Crystallography Online
  • Crystallographic Education Resources
  • Teaching Pamphlets
• Links for Mineralogists
• Crystallography 101
• Chemdex

Organizations

• Crystallographic organizations
  • International Union of Crystallography
  • American Crystallographic Association
  • More Crystallographic Organizations…
• Synchrotron radiation sources
  • Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
  • Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory
  • Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source
  • National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Neutron radiation sources
  • High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center
  • More Neutron Radiation Sources…
• More Organizations…

Conferences and Seminars

• Crystallography Conference Calendar by subject
• Denver X-ray Conference
• Gordon Research Conferences
• Stanford Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Conferences

Directories

• World Directory of Crystallographers
• ACS Directory of Graduate Research. Limited to Stanford Users. Latest print edition on Reserve.
• American Men and Women of Science. In Academic Universe (choose Reference Sources and then Biographical Information). Limited to Stanford users. Latest print edition in Swain Reference Q141 .A48
• Chemical Engineering Faculties. Latest edition in Swain Reference TP 165 .C45
• Chemical Engineering Faculty Directory
• Chemistry 2000: Two Thousand of the Best Chemistry Sites: Includes University Departments. From Cambridge University.
• CorpTech: Database of 50,000 High Tech Companies
• NSF: Federally Funded Research and Development Centers
• More Directories …

Suppliers

• Suppliers of Crystallographic Equipment
• Chem Sources Online (Stanford users only) Latest edition of print version on Reserve at Swain
• SRI Directory of Chemical Producers. United States and European sections. On Reserve at Swain
• Thomas Register of American Manufacturers

Stanford Links

• Stanford University
• Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
• Chemical Engineering Department
• Chemistry Department
• Environmental Health and Safety Department
• Research Centers and Institutes at Stanford
• Stanford Bookstore
• Stanford Directories
• Emergency Preparedness at Stanford