Friday, August 21, 2009

Tobacco Control Research Fellowships at UCSF

Applications are due by January 27, 2010, for fellowships beginning July 1, 2010.

The fellowship supports two years of postdoctoral training in tobacco related research. 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 an array of disciplines, including medicine, public health, nursing, economics, political science, law, sociology, psychology, and cell biology.

We offer 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.

Postdoctoral trainees will receive an annual salary commensurate with their experience, approximately $37,000-$51,000, according to the NIH stipend scale. Academic Background Required: Doctorate/Equivalent Degree.

Applicants may learn more about the Center, the fellowship program, and review the list of UCSF faculty and their research interests at our website, tobacco.ucsf.edu.

Please direct requests for information and applications to:
Fellowship Assistant
Phone: 415-476-0140
Fax: 415-514-9345
Tobacco.fellowship@ucsf.edu

Thursday, August 06, 2009

New DATTA, PM and USSTC Documents

We've added 6094 new documents to LTDL today!

The breakdown of additions by collection:

• Philip Morris - 2155 documents from their Engineering and Leaf Department files

• British American Tobacco - 462 documents

• US Smokeless Tobacco Co - 1193 documents

• DATTA - 2284 docs - acquired from Tobacco Documents Online (TDO) and includes testimony from the 1994 OSHA hearings on a proposed standard for indoor air quality.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

200,000+ New Documents Added Today

We've added a large batch of new documents to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today!

These additions include over 200,000 Tobacco Institute documents from Tobacco Documents Online (TDO) which were indexed and processed by Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI); new US Smokeless Tobacco Company documents; and Philip Morris Engineering and Leaf Department documents that had previously been in storage on microfilm.

The breakdown of additions is as follows:

Lorillard - 93 documents

Philip Morris - 1123 documents

RJ Reynolds - 2491 documents

Tobacco Institute - 207,825 documents

USSTCo - 478 documents

Total: 212,010 documents


To find these newly added documents, search on the date they were posted to LTDL - ddu:20090716

**As of Thursday, July 16, 2009, LTDL contains 53,689,389 pages in 10,304,061 documents.

** Many thanks to TDO for sharing documents with us and allowing us to work towards completing our holdings in certain collections and special collections!

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

New Papers for Tobacco Bibliography

Eleven (11) new papers have been added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography on the UCSF Library's Tobacco Control Archives site. This bibliography cites publications based on research and analysis of tobacco industry documents.

In addition to the TCA site, you can also access the bibliography on RefWorks at: http://www.refworks.com/refshare/?site=044531177916400000/RWWS6A586201/TobaccoDocumentsBibliography. The RefWorks version allows the user to sort and search the bibliography as well as create mini-bibliographies and lists to share with others.

Friday, June 19, 2009

Follow LTDL on Twitter

LTDL is on Twitter as ltdlnews - Follow us and receive up-to-the-minute posts regarding the tobacco documents, workshops, new multimedia uploads, tobacco-related papers and other buzz.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Pollay Advertising Collection Posted to LTDL

Richard W. Pollay is a past Curator of the History of Advertising Archives, University of British Columbia. He has written many articles for peer reviewed journals, US Surgeon General Reports and National Cancer Institute Monographs based upon his own research and access to corporate documents. A large portion of Dr. Pollay's 10,000+ collection of cigarette print advertising was processed and indexed by Roswell Park Cancer Institute and originally housed on the Tobacco Documents Online (TDO) site. TDO has graciously shared the images and metadata with LTDL.

The Pollay Advertising Collection currently contains 7,572 documents of mostly colored print advertisements created by the tobacco industry. More documents will be added as we receive them.
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In addition to the Pollay Advertising Collection, 10 new Philip Morris documents were added as well as 1101 new RJ Reynolds confidential document index records.

To find all of these new documents, search on the date the documents were added to the LTDL (June 11, 2009) - ddu:20090611

Thursday, May 14, 2009

New CTR Documents and USSTC Audio Tapes Posted Today

A total of 28,634 new documents were posted to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today.
The breakdown is as follows:

• Council for Tobacco Research (CTR) - 28522 documents (from Tobacco Documents Online's Roswell Park Collection)
• US Smokeless Tobacco (USSTC) - 101 records of audio recordings (available through the UCSF Library's Archives and Special Collections)
• Philip Morris - 1 document
• RJ Reynolds - 10 documents (very large documents)

Take a look at these new documents by searching for all documents loaded onto LTDL on May 14, 2009 - ddu:20090514

**As of Thursday, May 14, 2009, LTDL contains 52,484,936 pages in 10,085,872 documents.

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