Inorganic Crystal Structure Information Sources

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Inorganic Structures don't contain any C-H bonds or C-C bonds in any residue and contain at least one of the elements H, He, B, C, N, O, F, Ne, Si, P, S, Cl, Ar, Ge, As, Se, Br, Kr, Sb, Te, I, Xe, At, Rn; in addition metal carbides and inorganic frameworks including organic residues (e.g. Zeolites including ethanol).
( ICSD Definition)

Handbooks, Tables, Manuals

Bond Index to the Determinations of Inorganic Crystal Structures. Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University. Hamiton, Ontario: McMaster University, 1969-81. UIUC Holdings: 1969-77, 1981.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. David R. Lide, editor. (81st ed.) Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2000.

Crystal Data Determinative Tables. Edited by J.D.H. Donnelly and Helen Ondik. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, 1972-83. 6 volumes.

Crystal Structures. Ralph W.G. Wycoffe. 3rd ed. New York: Wiley Interscience, 1963-71. 6 volumes.

Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry.  Gmelin Institut.  Berlin: Springer-Verlag. 1817-1997.

Landolt-Bornstein: Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technology. Group
             III - Condensed Matter: Crystallography, Structure and Morphology. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1961-present.
           
Powder Diffraction File: Inorganic Volumes. Joint Committee on Powder Diffraction Data; American
             Society for Testing and Materials. Swarthmore, PA: JCPDS, 1974-84. 8 volumes.

Structure Reports. International Union of Crystallography.  Utrecht: Kluwer (earlier volumes published by
             Scheltema & Holkema and Reidel) 1913-.  (Vol. 1-7 published as: Strukturbericht, Leipzig, Akademie
             Verlagsgesellschaft, 1913-43 ).
 

Bibliographic Databases

Chemical Abstracts
    CA Section 75--Crystallization and Crystal Structure:
    --5. Crystal structure determination
    -----Inorganic compounds

Physics Abstracts Online INSPEC:
    Section 6100--Structure of liquids and solids; crystallography:
 

Structural Databases

Crystal Data File
    Source: U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) and International Center for Diffraction Data

Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD)
     Source: Gmelin-Institute for Inorganic Studies, Fachsinformation Zentrum, (FIZ) Karlsruhe, Germany.