Wednesday, October 01, 2008

New US Smokeless Tobacco Documents

Today over 14,500 new documents were put up on the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library with the bulk of the additions from US Smokeless Tobacco Co.

• 179 new RJ Reynolds documents (11306 pages)
• 14,396 new US Smokeless Tobacco documents
• The multimedia collection has been updated, with many more items now available online.
• 1 new Philip Morris document

You can find the new documents by searching for ddu:20080930 in the Expert Search page.

Please contact us with feedback, questions, problems, etc. Happy searching!

Monday, September 08, 2008

New Industry Documents Added

137,133 new documents were added to LTDL today!

The breakdown is as follows:

136,890 new Philip Morris documents with approximately 54,644 documents coming from the PM Advertising Archive.

85 new Tobacco Institute documents

158 new RJ Reynolds documents

To find these new documents, search for ddu:200809* in the Expert Search page.

Friday, August 08, 2008

New Podcast Series - Tobacco Industry Tactics

Find out more about how the tobacco companies operate with our new podcast series: Tobacco Industry Tactics: A Look in Company Files on Podcasts@UCSF (https://cit.ucsf.edu/podcast/description.php?id=53). Researchers present the work they’ve done using the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library as a resource. You can play them on your computer or iPod and subscribe to the series. Contact Kim Klausner at kimDOTklausnerATlibraryDOTucsfDOTedu if you are interested in presenting your work.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Students Search the Documents

James Valastro of memefilms has produced a video titled Searching the American Legacy Tobacco Documents that combines document searching, students, and video production. After attending the UCSF Tobacco Documents workshop in the Spring, Mr. Valastro himself conducted a 5-hour workshop for middle-school and high-school students, teaching them to search the millions of pages of once secret internal tobacco documents. This 9 minute video is the result of the workshop and a wonderful showcase for the students' interest in critical thinking, health education and media production.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

BATDA and Smokeless Tobacco collections now on LTDL

Today, the entire body of documents in the British American Tobacco Documents Archive (BATDA) was merged with the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, bringing the document count in LTDL to over 50 million pages in 9.7 million documents. You can now search for BATDA documents separately in LTDL (choose just the "British American Tobacco" collection on the search page) and in conjunction with the 13 other tobacco industry collections.

With this merge comes a few changes to be aware of:

1) The BATDA website is still up and online at http://bat.library.ucsf.edu only now when you conduct a search from BATDA, your results will be returned in LTDL.

2) In order to allow a uniform search across all collections in LTDL, a few of the field codes were changed in the BAT collection. Seasoned BATDA users who are used to using the two-letter field codes should consult the Expanded Field Definition section in BATDA to see what has changed.

We realize this merging of the two digital libraries may take some time to get used to but we hope this ultimately provides a better, more comprehensive and fruitful search experience for all researchers.

In addition to the BAT collection, a new collection of Smokeless Tobacco documents have been added to LTDL under the collection name "US Smokeless Tobacco". This collection contains 128,695 pages in 11,258 documents and we plan to post another large set of Smokeless Tobacco documents in the near future.

As always, please contact us with any questions, comments, and concerns - we appreciate all of the feedback and suggestions for the site.

Monday, July 14, 2008

BATDA merging with LTDL

We are pleased to announce that later this week the British American Tobacco Document Archive (BATDA) will be merged with the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. Doing so will allow you to search all the US documents at the same time that you search the BAT documents.

We wanted to alert BATDA users to these changes so you’re not surprised when you use the site.

You will still be able to search the BAT documents through the current site, (http://bat.library.ucsf.edu) or through the LTDL site (http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu.) Regardless of which portal you use to do the search, the results will be returned from the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL).

You will be able to retrieve any documents that you’ve bookmarked using the bat.library.ucsf.edu URLs. In addition, all of BATDA’s functionality remains, regardless of which portal is used to search the BAT documents.

Besides having results returned from LTDL, BATDA users may notice one other change: some of the field codes used in advanced searching were modified to a uniform standard shared by LTDL.

We again thank all of our partners and supporters in the Guildford Archiving Project and BATDA Consortium: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Mayo Clinic, Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, Ministry of the Attorney General of British Columbia, World Health Organization, ASH New Zealand, British Medical Association, Department of Health (UK), International Union Against Tuberculosis & Lung Disease, The Nuffield Trust, Royal College of General Practitioners, Royal College of Midwives, Royal College of Physicians, UK Faculty of Public Health Medicine, World Health Organization, Flight Attendants Medical Research Institute (FAMRI), Wellcome Trust, Health Canada, Cancer Research UK, National Cancer Institute, American Legacy Foundation, American Heart Association, Rockefeller Foundation, American Heart Association, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the University of California, San Francisco Academic Senate. All these partners will be recognized on both sites.

We encourage you to sign up for email notices of future changes at http://blog.legacy.library.ucsf.edu/.

Monday, June 16, 2008

New Liggett & Myers "Bliley" documents

812 new L&M documents were posted to the "Bliley" special collection on the LTDL today.

The Bliley collection is a special collection comprised of documents that defendants in State of Minnesota v. Philip Morris, et al, claimed were privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. While the documents were being disputed in court, Congressman Thomas Bliley, the Chairman of the House Commerce Committee, subpoenaed the documents in question and posted them on the Commerce Committee web site.

To find these new Liggett & Myers "Bliley" documents, search for speccoll:Bliley* in the Liggett & Myers collection.

LTDL holdings as of Wednesday, June 11, 2008:
43,955,565 pages in 8,265,478 documents

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