Pantone color books

Hi There,
I am working in Illustrator CC and was trying to find the Pantone Process Coated and it has now been replaced by Pantone + CMYK Coated. I don't have these new swatches, wondering if there is anyway to load all the old swatch pallets into my system? Can anyone advice?

If you have CS5, copy them into this folder on the mac(PC location is similar).

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