To investigate this, we considered L-edge XANES of three molecules considered previously at the TD-B3LYP level, 117 , with simulated spectra shown in Fig. . Spinorbit couplings are neglected in both CAM-B3LYP/CIS and TD-B3LYP spectra, as our primary objective is to observe the scalar shifts for either method, which were optimized for TD-B3LYP in Ref. 117, in order to put the spin-orbit-free L-edge feature between the experimental L 2 -and L 3 -edge peaks. Essential features of the spin-orbit-free L-edge spectra are quite similar at the two levels of theory but the requisite shifts are considerably smaller in the case of CAM-B3LYP/CIS; see Fig. . Indeed, for CAM-B3LYP/CIS the shifts required for L-edge spectroscopy are similar in magnitude to what was required for K-edge XANES, which suggests that the method works about equally well for both K-and L-edge XANES but less well for XES, where the reference state is open-shell. The effects of differential (core versus valence) SIE and orbital relaxation appear to be balanced by the correction ∆ε, but only for closed-shell reference states.