Zeitschrift für Kristallographie – New Crystal Structures was founded in 1997 as spin off of Zeitschrift für Kristallographie to meet the high demand to publish results of structure determination. All publications and their submitted CIF-data are online freely available (Open Access). Zeitschrift für Kristallographie – New Crystal Structures publishes results of determination of hitherto unknown crystal structures, and refinement of previously published crystal structures. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie – New Crystal Structures provides strict but constructive refereeing system, free access to submitted cif-files, Open Access to the PDF-files of publications, as well as data deposition at FIZ Karlsruhe and CCDC Cambridge.