The Cambridge Structural Database is an incredible community achievement as for over fifty years crystallographers have shared the results of every published crystal structure with the CCDC – allowing us to share them with the world. The CCDC is committed to enabling everyone to benefit from the world’s comprehensive and up-to-date database of crystal structures.
Blogs 
Check out our latest blogs, here.
Deposit Structures 
Find out how to deposit structures on the CSD and the FIZ Karlsruhe database, here.
Access Structures
Find out how to access the structures from the CSD, here.
CSD-Community
CCDC offers a selection of products and services free of charge for the benefit of the scientific community. The services detailed below cover a wide range of crystallographic tools - from data collection, validation and visualisation to teaching, research and analysis.
Find the selection of products and services, here.
Awards and Sponsorships
The CCDC sponsors international scientific awards for scientists through the auspices of appropriate professional organisations, who are responsible for seeking nominations, judging poster presentations and making arrangements for award presentations.
More information about our awards and sponsorships, here.
Frank H. Allen International Research and Education Programme 
The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) is dedicated to advancing structural chemistry around the world and established the Frank H. Allen International Research and Education Programme (FAIRE) to help support research and education in underrepresented communities. FAIRE award grants cover the cost of campus-level access to CSD-Enterprise for three years for researchers in parts of the world with demonstrable need.
Find more information, here.
Collaborators and Partnerships
CCDC maintains close relationships with a variety of organisations involved in the chemical and crystallographic sciences.
Learn more about who we collaborate and partner with, here.
Initiatives
The CCDC is a research institution which is dedicated to the advancement of chemistry and crystallography. By compiling and distributing the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD), (the world's repository of experimentally determined organic and metal-organic crystal structures) the CCDC is the custodian of an invaluable source of data for the scientific community and from which new research tools can be developed.
- The Crystal Form Consortium
- CSP Blind Test
- Educational Resources
More information about our initiatives, here.
Training and Educational Resources
The wealth of information contained within the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) extends far beyond a collection of crystal structures. Knowledge derived from these materials informs much of chemistry, biochemistry, and biology. Chemical and structural concepts are often difficult to grasp without real world, interactive examples for students to explore.
Check out our Training and Educational Resources, here.
CSD Communications
CSD Communications is a collection of small molecule crystallographic data which has been shared by depositors through the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) without an associated scientific article.
Find more information about CSD Communications, here.
CCDC Annual 3D Print Contest
We want the whole community to know how easy and fun it is to create an experimentally accurate 3D printed molecules of any part of a crystal structure using our visualisation and analysis tool Mercury.
Find out how to get involved and the results from past winners, here.
Start you #ResearchResolution today
We believe that scientists change the world - not only through big discoveries, but through the everyday planning, decisions, hard work, and incremental changes that lead there.
Check out our 2021 Research Resolutions, here.
