Thursday, October 13, 2011
64,000+ New Documents Posted Today
64,107 documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today - highlights include:
New/Revised Feature:
Last month we rolled out a new field called "Related" which was to be populated with a link to a publicly accessible document if it had the exact same bates number as the document designated as privileged or confidential. Clicking on "Related" would have taken you to this duplicate document which may contain the PDF for viewing. We have rethought this feature and decided to make it more streamlined and comprehensive.
With this new release, we now have a "Public versions" link instead of a specific field in the record (see image below). If a privileged or confidential record has this link, click on it and a search is automatically generated showing all publicly accessible documents that have the same bates number.
Thursday, October 06, 2011
Today is the "Day of Digital Archives"
This month is Archives Month! In honor of the first annual Day of Digital Archives, the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library's manager extraordinaire has written up a post detailing just what LTDL is all about:
http://t.co/5wu1LohEFollow the many and varied archives that will be tweeting today - #digitalArchivesDay
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Postdoc Fellowships in Tobacco Control Research starting July 2012
Applications are due January 25, 2012 for fellowships beginning July 2, 2012.Academic Background Required: Doctorate/Equivalent DegreeThe fellowship supports two years of postdoctoral training in tobacco related research. The program stresses the skills needed to conduct research in diverse, collaborative transdisciplinary settings, emphasizing leadership in catalyzing the integration of multiple disciplines and translating science to policy and clinical practice. Postdoctoral fellows will have exposure to diverse training including both didactic coursework and individualized mentoring to build a personalized research program. Fellows have come from medicine, public health, nursing, economics, anthropology, political science, law, sociology, psychology, and cell biology. Prior tobacco research experience is relevant, but not necessary for acceptance.
The Center offers individual mentorship with UCSF faculty along with courses in tobacco specific topics, health policy, cancer control and prevention, grant and scientific writing skills, career development, interdisciplinary research, and biostatistics. UCSF is a global leader in tobacco science, a World Health Organization collaborating center, and home of the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. Qualified applicants from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Postdoctoral trainees will receive an annual salary commensurate with their experience, approximately $38,496-$53,112, according to the NIH stipend scale. Learn more about the Center, the fellowship program, current fellows, and faculty and their research interests at www.tobacco.ucsf.edu.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
28,000+ New Documents Posted to LTDL
New documents were added to the
Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today - the breakdown is:
- Brown and Williamson - 102 documents
- Lorillard - 24,203 confidential document records and 4,024 public documents
- RJ Reynolds - 116 "Court Action" documents - these are the court orders that made certain privileged documents publicly accessible
New features:
- We now have links to the RJR Court Action documents in the "Express Waiver" fields of certain BW, RJR and ATCo privileged documents. These Court Action documents are the court orders that made the privileged documents publicly accessible. In conjunction with this new "Express Waiver" field, we have the "Related" field which links to the publicly accessible document that has the exact same bates number as the document designated as privileged or confidential. Clicking on "Related" will take you to this duplicate document which may contain the PDF.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Child labour: the tobacco industry's smoking gun
"Financial reports for 2008 by the five big tobacco companies - BAT, Philip Morris, China National Tobacco Company, Imperial Tobacco and Japan Tobacco - show that they collectively earned $300bn. This is more money than the GDP of all but 40 countries worldwide. Part of the reason for those huge profits is that tobacco giants benefit from $1.2bn in unpaid child labour costs, according to Otañez's colleague Prof Stanton Glantz."
Read the entire
article at the Guardian.
Related resources:
Read the 2006 Otanez, Muggli, Hurt and Glantz article "Eliminating child labour in Malawi: a British American Tobacco corporate responsibility project to sidestep tobacco labour exploitation" at
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tc.2005.014993A quick search for documents in the BAT collection on LTDL where country =
Malawi.
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