This database provides access to information on every crystal structure published in the American Mineralogist, the Canadian Mineralogist, European Journal of Mineralogy, and Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, as well as selected datasets from other journals. The data are searchable by mineral name, author, chemistry, cell parameters and symmetry, diffraction pattern, and a general search. There are also lists of minerals represented in the database and authors of publications cited.

The American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database website, maintained by the Mineralogical Society of America and the Mineralogical Association of Canada and sponsored by the National Science Foundation, "includes every structure published in the American Mineralogist, The Canadian Mineralogist, and the European Journal of Mineralogy." The authors are also currently adding data from Physics and Chemistry of Minerals. Users can search the data by minerals, authors, chemistry, cell parameter and symmetry, or by a simple general search. This no frills website allows users to easily find and download data.