Community Library
A free, community-owned reference database. Every spectrum contributed under CC-BY-4.0 makes search more valuable for everyone.
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Commercial spectral library search can cost thousands of dollars and ties your workflow to a single vendor's proprietary database. The SpectralBench community library takes the opposite approach: it is free, open, and owned by the people who use it. Every contributed spectrum is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license, so the collection stays FAIR — Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable — for research, teaching, and industry alike.
The community library is just getting started.
Every spectrum contributed under CC-BY-4.0 makes search more valuable for everyone. Be one of the first to add yours.
It's a free, community-owned reference database of FTIR and Raman spectra. Any signed-in user can contribute their own verified spectra, and everyone can search against the combined collection. Each contributed spectrum makes compound identification more accurate for the whole community — a network effect that proprietary libraries can't match.
Sign in, save a spectrum to your personal library, then click "Share to Community" next to it. You confirm the metadata (compound name, CAS, formula) and add an optional note about the instrument and sample preparation. Contributions are shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license and reviewed before they appear in public search results.
All community contributions are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0). That means anyone can reuse them — including commercially — as long as they credit the contributor. This keeps the database open and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).
Yes, completely free. Commercial library-search packages can cost thousands of dollars and lock you into a single vendor's proprietary database. The SpectralBench community library is open, free, and grows with every contribution.