Fogler Library: Cambridge Structural Database System Guide

Cambridge Structural Database System Guide

Database Overview

The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) System, produced by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, provides access to bibliographic, chemical, and crystallographic information about small molecule crystal structures. The CSD includes over 300,000 entries, incorporating both openly published and privately submitted data on organic molecules and organometallic compounds.

Users of this system must install client software (at a minimum, the ConQuest search software, the Mercury 3-D crystal structure viewer, and the data files) on their own workstations. The latest version available from Fogler Library is the November 2003 annual update. Currently the system is also loaded on a workstation in the Science and Engineering Center on the second floor of the library.

Use Restrictions

Limited to use by faculty, students, and staff of the University of Maine

Getting Started

Minimum hardware requirements.
Installation requires approximately 1.5 gigabytes of space on your hard drive.
Check out an installation CD from the Fogler Library Media Resource Center on Level 2. The call number for the CD is CDROM QD921 .C36. You must have a current University of Maine faculty, student, or staff ID card to check out the CD. There are CDs for both the Windows and UNIX versions of the system, as well as print versions of the installation notes, user's guide, and tutorials (call number QD921 .C36).

Guides to Searching the Database

Documentation: similar to the files contained on the CDs.
FAQs & Downloads: includes quarterly updates to the data files.

Questions?

Contact Nancy Curtis at 581-1679, or another Science & Engineering Librarian (581-1691) for assistance.

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Created by: Nancy Curtis | Revised: 01/28/2008