NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY
NIST
STANDARD REFERENCE DATA GROUP
FREQUENTLY
ASKED QUESTIONS
How do I obtain
the NIST/EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Library?
A list of licensed
distributed can be found on our website at http://www.nist.gov/srd/mslist.
Please contact a distributor on this list.
How do I become
a distributor of the NIST/EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Library?
Please e-mail Joan Sauerwein at joan.sauerwein@nist.gov and a license
agreement will be sent to you. Upon reading and agreeing to the terms
and conditions detailed in the agreement, a signed agreement with prepayment
is required. The Library will then be shipped to your attention.
I would like to
integrate Standard Reference Databases into my products. How do I do that?
Many of our data
products include the source code in the package for easy inclusion into
internal programs.
I want to integrate
my programs with Standard Reference Databases to create a product for
resale. Am I allowed to do that?
If you wish to integrate our data products into your commercial package
for resale, you must sign a distributor license agreement. Contact Joan
Sauerwein at joan.sauerwein@nist.gov.
I work for an
academic institution. Do you give academic discounts?
As a program in a government agency, NIST Standard Reference Data is required
to treat all customers alike; therefore, there are no academic discounts.
There are multiple copy discounts available.
What are your
multiple copy discounts?
Copy 1 is the full price, copy 2-5 is 80% of the full price per unit,
copy 6-20 is 60% of the full price per unit, copy 21-100 is 50% of the
full price per unit. See our price list at http://www.nist.gov/srd/dblist.htm
Can I purchase
a database online for someone else and download it?
When ordering a
database online, please be advised that the product will be downloaded
into the machine of the person ordering, therefore it is advisable that
the person ultimately using the product be the one to download.
Can I order multiple
copy discounts and download them?
No, it is not advisable.
Choose the shipping option in the SRD E-Commerce system and the CD-ROMs
will be shipped.
How are your databases
shipped? All domestic orders are shipped using United Parcel Service
(UPS) Ground. Foreign orders are shipped using United States Post Service
(USPS) Air Mail. If you wish an alternative method, please contact us.
An alternate method does require a credit card or account number.
Are your databases
copyrighted?
Yes, our databases
are copyrighted by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the United
States of America. All rights reserved. No part of our database may be
reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or
by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise,
without prior permission.
Can Standard Refererence
Databases be networked?
Please contact Joan Sauerwein at joan.sauerwein@nist.gov to discuss specific
situations.
I don't understand
the difference between NIST Standard Reference Data and NIST data. What
is the difference? NIST Standard Reference Data contains critically
evaluated data or is based on a NIST publication or the Journal of Physical
and Chemical Reference Data.
How are your data
evaluated?
Scientific and technical
data may be examined from three viewpoints: how well is the data generation
described, how do the data follow the known physical laws, and how do
the data compare to other measurements or calculations of the same phenomena.
The description of data generation is crucial. The identification and
control of all relevant independent variables must be addressed and demonstrated.
For mature areas such as thermodynamics and atomic physics, many measurement
techniques are well characterized. In these cases, the adherence to physical
laws and intercomparisons predominate. For areas in which behavior is
not well understood, such as corrosion, data from different experiments
are not usually comparable. Consequently, documentation of control of
the experimental condition is most important.
I want to submit
an article to the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data. I need
instructions.
See Instructions for
Authors at http://www.nist.gov/srd/Instructions2.pdf.
I want a specific
Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data article. How do I obtain
it?
NIST SRD has Adobe
documents posted online for Volumes 1-33 of the Journal of Physical and
Chemical Reference Data. See http://www.nist.gov/srd/reprints.htm.
I need a copy
of an NSRDS-NBS publication. How do I obtain it?
We have some NSRDS-NBS
Adobe documents posted on http://www.nist.gov/srd/nsrds.htm.
I am working on
a paper and want to cite as a reference one of your databases. What is
the proper way to do that?
For a literature citation, the database should be viewed as a book published
by NIST; thus, an example citation is:
P.R. Watson, M.A. Van Hove and K. Hermann, NIST Surface Structure Database
- Version 5.0 National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg,
MD (2004).
How do I cite
the entire NIST Chemistry WebBook?
P.J. Linstrom and W.G. mallard, Eds., NIST Chemistry WebBook, NIST Standard
Reference database Number 69, June 2005, national Institute of Standards
and Technology, Gaithersburg MD, 20899 (http://webbook.nist.gov).
I want to use a structure from one of your databases in my paper. Is
this possible?
You may republish small representations of data and graphics from our
databases as long as full acknowledgement is made of NIST as the source.
For more information please
contact:
- Standard Reference Data Program
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Dr., Stop 2300
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-2310
(301) 975-2008 (VOICE) / (301) 926-0416 (FAX) /
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