A paperback edition of the Online Dictionary of Crystallography has been released and will be available at the IUCr booth in Montreal at the special price of 16 CAD (11 EUR, 9 GBP). To reserve your copy for collection at the Congress, please send us an email (reservedict@iucr.org).

The book is produced by the IUCr Commission on Crystallographic Nomenclature as a contribution to the outreach activities of IYCr2014, and is edited by André Authier and Gervais Chapuis.

Edited by André Authier and Gervais Chapuis

The 252-page paperback book A Little Dictionary of Crystallography is a printed snapshot of the contents of the Online Dictionary of Crystallography. The Online Dictionary arose from a suggestion by Professor André Authier, a former IUCr President and Chair of the IUCr Commission on Crystallographic Nomenclature between 2002 and 2014. It has gradually been building into a compendium of 'official' IUCr definitions of crystallographic terms. Its primary goal is to be a reference for authors and referees of IUCr Journals and for research professionals in general: but it will also be useful to students and to the general public.

Sample pages may be examined by clicking on this PDF download.

The book is now available at a specially discounted rate of 16 CAD (11 EUR, 9 GBP) from http://tinyurl.com/little-dictionary.

This book contains the definitions in the Online Dictionary, current as of 8 July 2014. The online definitions can be found at the web address http://reference.iucr.org/dictionary.