International Union of Crystallography

The IUCr is a scientific union adhering to the International Council for Science (ICSU). Its objectives are to promote international cooperation in crystallography and to contribute to all aspects of crystallography, to promote international publication of crystallographic research, to facilitate standardization of methods, units, nomenclatures and symbols, and to form a focus for the relations of crystallography to other sciences.

The IUCr fulfils these objectives by publishing in print and electronically primary scientific journals through Crystallography Journals Online, the series of reference volumes International Tables for Crystallography, distributing the quarterly IUCr Newsletter, maintaining the online World Directory/Database of Crystallographers, awarding the Ewald Prize and organising the triennial Congress and General Assembly.

Scientific publications

The Components of the IUCr

• The Ewald Prize

• Secretariat

• Statutes and By-Laws of the IUCr

• General Assembly
  • Adhering Bodies and National Committees for Crystallography
  • Agenda Papers, Minutes and Triennial Reports

• Executive Committee
  • Annual Reports
  • Sub-Committees of the Executive Committee
    • Finance Committee
    • Sub-Committee on the Union Calendar
    • Committee on Electronic Publishing, Dissemination and Storage of Information
    • Committee on Crystallographic Databases
    • Committee on the Maintenance of the CIF Standard (COMCIFS)
    • IUCr/OUP Book Series Selection Committee
    • IUCr Newsletter

• Commissions
  • General Statement of Principles Regarding Commissions of the IUCr

  • Commission on Aperiodic Crystals
  • Commission on Biological Macromolecules
  • Commission on Charge, Spin and Momentum Densities
  • Commission on Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials
  • Commission on Crystallographic Computing
  • Commission on Crystallographic Nomenclature
  • Commission on Crystallographic Teaching
  • Commission on Electron Diffraction
  • Commission on High Pressure
  • Commission on Inorganic and Mineral Structures
  • Commission on International Tables for Crystallography
  • Commission on Journals
  • Commission on Neutron Scattering
  • Commission on Powder Diffraction
  • Commission on Small-Angle Scattering
  • Commission on Structural Chemistry
  • Commission on Synchrotron Radiation
  • Commission on XAFS

• Regional Associates
  • American Crystallographic Association
  • Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA)
  • European Crystallographic Association

• Scientific Associates
  • International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD)
  • International Organization of Crystal Growth (IOCG)

• Other bodies not belonging to the Union
  • Interdivisional Committee on Terminology, Nomenclature and Symbols of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
  • International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI)
  • International Council for Science (ICSU)
  • ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA)
  • ICSU Committee on Science and Technology in Developing Countries and International Biosciences Network (COSTED-IBN)
  • ICSU Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)
  • ICSU Committee on Capacity Building in Science (PCBS)

Further information on the IUCr

Reports

• Executive Committee Annual Reports
• General Assembly Agenda, Minutes and Triennial Reports
• Triennial Congress Dates, Details and Reports

Sponsorship

• Sponsorship and support of meetings
• Visiting Professorship Scheme
• Reduced-price subscriptions for IUCr Journals

History

• The Early History of the Union
• Official opening of No. 6 Abbey Square
• Previous Executive Committees (1948 - present)
• Ewald Prize

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