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National Institute of Standards and TechnologyNIST Standard Reference Data GroupFrequently Asked QuestionsHow do I obtain the NIST/EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Library?A list of licensed distributors 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 international UPS for an additional $30.00.Customer is responsible for their own duties, tax and VAT. 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://jpcrd.aip.org/authors/information_for_contributors. 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 1-34 of the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data. See http://www.nist.gov/srd/reprints.cfm. 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.cfm. 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). For more information please contact:
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