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CSD Growth through2018

We have a campus-wide site license to CSD-Core (formerly known as CSD Enterprise) plus WebCSD.  Our current license agreement is valid through December.

CCDC announces 2021.3 CSD Release - What's New
  • Enhanced CSD subsets
  • Improvements to SMARTS/SMILES
  • Verified database entries increased to 1.16 million
Access Structures
Access Structures is a free service to allow you to view and retrieve individual structures from the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) and Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD).   To view and retrieve more structures today or to access our more advanced search functionality please use WebCSD and ICSD.
From then to now: a journey through the CSD
In 2015, it was CSD's 50th anniversary and the database hit the one million structures mark. Selected presentations from the CSD50 celebration are now available for on-demand viewing.
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Request activation key and license customer ID

Access to CSD software is limited to current students, faculty, and staff at Stanford.  You must have the activation key and the license customer ID before you are able to download the software. Please send a request to the Science Library using your @Stanford email address. Please also include your Stanford ID number in the request.

Use WebCSD or download software

Be sure to remove the old version of CSD before installing the new version. Please note that CSD software must be deleted when users graduate or are no longer affiliated with Stanford. 

About

CSD Enterprise - Components

Established in 1965 by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is the world’s repository for small-molecule organic and metal-organic crystal structures. Containing over one million entries from x-ray and neutron diffraction analyses, this unique database of accurate 3D structures has become an essential resource to scientists around the world. The June 2015 issue of CCDC's Crystalline Newsletter covers 50 Years of Sharing Crystal Structures (PDF).  In addition to coverage of the published literature, CSD searches also contains data published directly through the CSD as CSD Communications that are not available anywhere else.

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Support and resources

Contact CCDC's support team by sending email  to support@ccdc.cam.ac.uk

FAQ Database
Documentation
CCDC Educational Resources
  • By integrating crystal structures into your course you will provide your students with the opportunity to visualise and manipulate real molecules in 3D and to work with experimentally-measured data.
CSD Python API Forum
CCDC Research
CCDC WebCite
  • Information derived from the CSD is vital to structural chemistry research in its broadest sense, and in particular to pharmaceutical drug discovery, materials design, drug development and formulation. More than 2,000 papers and reviews [e.g. 2-4] have been published worldwide that describe research applications using the accumulated data in the CSD.
  • More about CCDC WebCite
Deposit a structure
  • CellCheckCSD
    • CellCheckCSD is a freely available, automated tool for checking unit cells against the CSD during data collection.
  • EnCIFer
    • Safely check and edit crystallographic information files (CIFs) without compromising the syntax.

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