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Since its creation at the end of the 1990s, the EELS database is now the largest open-access electronic repository of spectra from Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy experiments.

The first version of this website was created in the late 1990s at the initiative of Virginie Serin (Université Toulouse III, CEMES-CNRS) and Thierry Sikora (Company Savantic AB). Thanks to the first European microscopy network ESTEEM1, they gathered a large number of spectra. Now with more than 200 spectra covering 34 elements, the EELS Database is the largest open-access electronic repository of spectra from Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy experiments. The EELS database is  a common tool used by spectroscopists, theoreticians, students and private firms as a reference catalog for fine structures and data-treatment analyzes and has been referenced by more than 30 papers.

Fifteen years after its creation, the responsibility and the management of the EELS database was entrusted to Luc Lajaunie (Université de Nantes, Insitut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel -IMN-) in order to perform an overhaul of the website. Thanks to the donations of numerous sponsors, a  data-base specialist, Phil Ewels, has joined this project. In that way, not only the design of the website has been improved but also the database itself has been completely reworked in order to add many more functionalities.

We greatly encourage you to submit your spectra coming from your published works. In addition to help the EELS community, this will give more visibility to your papers by enabling others to re-use your data (who will in return quote your work). Furthermore, once a new spectra is published in the database, the corresponding paper will be highlighted in the news section of the EELS DB portal.

This database will be continuously updated, and according to your remarks, new features may be added. Please feel free to send any questions, comments or ideas via the contact form below. You can sign up to receive a monthly e-mail with new spectra here.

Copyright & License

 

The EELS Data Base and the spectroscopic data are open data, licensed under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL). You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt our data, as long as you credit the EELS Data Base and its contributors. If you alter or build upon our data, you may distribute the result only under the same license. The full legal code explains your rights and responsibilities.

The rest of the EELS Data Base website and its content are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license (CC BY-SA).

How to credit the EELS Data Base and its contributors

 

We require that you credit both the original paper(s) (if any) of the contributor(s) who submitted the data you wish to re-use AND the EELS Database. Please credit the EELS Data Base using the following citation:

Philip Ewels, Thierry Sikora, Virginie Serin, Chris P. Ewels and Luc Lajaunie.
“A Complete Overhaul of the Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy and X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Database: eelsdb.eu.”
Microscopy and Microanalysis, 22, 717–724 (2016), doi:10.1017/S1431927616000179.

The pre-print file can be find here. The BibTeX format citation is as follows:

@article{MAM:10195259,
author = {Ewels,Philip and Sikora,Thierry and Serin,Virginie and Ewels,Chris P. and Lajaunie,Luc},
title = {A Complete Overhaul of the Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy and X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Database: eelsdb.eu},
journal = {Microscopy and Microanalysis},
volume = {22},
month = {2},
year = {2016},
issn = {1435-8115},
pages = {717--724},
numpages = {8},
doi = {10.1017/S1431927616000179},
URL = {http://journals.cambridge.org/article_S1431927616000179},
}

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