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April 2013

ICSD now contains 161,030 crystal structures

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ICSD now contains 156,679 crystal structures

April 2012

ICSD now contains 150,042 crystal structures

Bibliographic Search

The Bibliographic Search allows you to look up crystal structure data by publication data (Fig. 1).

 

Figure 1: Bibliographic Search screen.
Figure 1: Bibliographic Search screen.

 

Authors

The author search is not case sensitive; the wildcard “*” is allowed in the search field. Exact phrases have to be enclosed in quotation marks. Search terms (unlimited number allowed) have to be separated by a blank; those search terms are then combined by logical AND.

Examples:

Search term

will find all entries with (at least) these terms in the authors list

Jansen

Jansen

jAnSEn

“Jansen, M.”

M. Jansen

Jans*

Jans[arbitrary rest], such as Jansen, Janssen, Jansson etc.

*heim

[arbitrary beginning]heim, such as Heim (!), Didisheim, Guggenheim etc.

schmidt mueller

Schmidt AND Mueller

 

Title of Journal

The journal search is not case sensitive; the wildcard “*” is allowed in the search field. Exact phrases have to be enclosed in quotation marks. Search terms (unlimited number allowed) have to be separated by a blank; those search terms are then combined by logical AND. Thus, the user does not have to type in the complete title. Often a meaningful abbreviation is less error prone than having to type in a long journal title. It is possible to enter a CODEN as a search term. The routine interprets an input of exactly 6 characters as a CODEN.

Examples:

Search term

will find all entries with (at least) these terms in the reference list

Acta Chim Hung

Acta Chimica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae

zaacab

Zeitschrift fuer Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie

nature

No hits because there is no journal with CODEN nature. The Journal "Nature" can be found by enclosing the journal title in quotation marks.

 

Title of Article

The title search is not case sensitive; the wildcard “*” is allowed in the search field. Exact phrases have to be enclosed in quotation marks. Search terms (unlimited number allowed) have to be separated by a blank; those search terms are then combined by logical AND.

Examples:

Search term

will find all entries with (at least) these terms in the title of article list

Pressure ice

Pressure AND ice, such as “Crystal structures of the high-pressure forms of ice: Ice III” and “Lattice Parameters and Lattice Energies of High-Pressure Polymorphs of some Alkali Halides” (!)

thio sulfate

thio AND sulfate, such as “X-ray study of two nickel(II)-thiosulfate compounds” and “X-ray diffraction study of copper(I)thiourea complexes formed in sulfate-containing acid solutions”

thiosulfate

thiosulfate, such as “X-ray study of two nickel(II)-thiosulfate compounds” and NOT “X-ray diffraction study of copper(I)thiourea complexes formed in sulfate-containing acid solutions”

 

Year of Publication

Up to 5 (numerical) search terms are allowed in the entry field. The search terms have to be separated by blanks. You are allowed to search for ranges by either using the hyphen (-) between search terms or by using less than (<) or greater than (>) in combination with the year. The search terms are combined by logical OR.

Examples:

Search term

will find all entries with (at least) these terms publication year list

1974

1974

1974 1975

1974 OR 1975

1974-1976

1974 OR 1975 OR 1976

1925 1951-1954

1925 OR 1951 OR 1952 OR 1953 OR 1954

>2005

2006 OR 2007 OR 2008 OR 2009 OR 2010