Thursday, October 11, 2007
New DOJ Collection and New Features
An updated version of LTDL has been put into production today with a new special collection as well as help for RefWorks and a new format for PDF links:
The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library has added the "US Department of Justice" collection:
The United States Department of Justice collection is a special collection of documents that defendants in United States v. Philip
Morris, et al. initially withheld from production to the United States on grounds of privilege or other protection but were since deemed releasable.
This collection includes both voluntarily-produced documents and documents produced subject to court compulsion.
To search this special collection, do a fielded search for the term justice in the special collection field -
speccoll:justice For more information on this collection please consult our page -
About the Collections.
Help for RefWorks and tobacco documents:
RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management application similar to EndNote. Because it is web-based, you are able to access
and share your RefWorks personal citation database from anywhere via the Internet -- on campus, at home (via VPN), or abroad.
The Library at UCSF has acquired a site license for RefWorks and an account is free for UCSF students, faculty, and staff.
We have created a set of full instructions on how to format tobacco document citations using RefWorks - please access the
RefWorks help page for more information.
Permanent link to PDF of a document:
Users have found it beneficial to bookmark the actual PDF of a document (not just the pURL record) so we have created a permanent link format for PDFs. Notice the notation
/pdf follows after the original pURL format --
ex: "http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/vpq85d00
/pdf"
This should help to standardize the links and guard against any broken links to documents.
Document Additions:In addition to a new release of LTDL, we have added over 13,000 new documents to the
British American Tobacco Documents Archive (BATDA) bringing the total to 6,642,841 pages in 1,428,269 documents.
Please contact us with any questions or problems - we always look forward to hearing about how these new collections and features work for you!
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
New Documents on BATDA
We have recently added thousands of new documents to the British American Tobacco Documents Archive (BATDA). As of September 18, 2007, BATDA now contains 6,545,399 pages in 1,415,146 documents -
http://bat.library.ucsf.edu.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Tobacco Control Fellowships for 2008
The UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (CTCRE) invites applications for fellowships in policy relevant tobacco control research. Completed applications are due January 31, 2008, for fellowships beginning July 1, 2008.
Applicants may learn more about the Center, the fellowship program, and review the list of UCSF faculty and their research interests at:
http://tobacco.ucsf.edu.
For more information or to request an application, contact:
Nathan Sinclair
Program Assistant
Phone: 415-476-0140
Fax: 415-514-9345
Email: nathan.sinclair(at)ucsf.edu
Completed applications should be sent to:
Pamela Ling, MD, MPH
Fellowship Program Director, CTCRE
UCSF Box 1390
530 Parnassus Ave., #366
San Francisco, CA 94143-1390
Monday, September 10, 2007
New Features and Fixes
Welcome to the new LTDL News & Announcements Blog:
We have switched to a blog format that not only allows comments on each post but also allows you to subscribe to updates by RSS feed or by email. We hope to use this blog to better inform users regarding library additions, features, site maintenance and workshops. Subscribe today using the "Subscribe to this Page" links on the right hand side.
Phrase Searches include stop words:
It is now possible to search the document text for an exact phrase even if it includes those commonly used words (“stop words”) such as “it”, “the”, “a” and “and” that formerly were excluded from searches. Please note - in order for this to function properly, make sure the phrase you are searching for is enclosed in quotes (“ “).
Every document in LTDL now available as a PDF:
All of the records now contain PDFs but please note - currently, about 5,000 of these are non-searchable PDFs, meaning that once you open the document as a PDF, you cannot search for terms within the PDF text itself. We are committed to making every PDF searchable so look for updates on this feature.
Faster Searches:
Changes to the LTDL index have resulted in searches roughly 3X faster than before!
Fuzzy Searching:
We have upgraded the fuzzy search feature which finds words that are "close" in spelling to the search term (i.e. “coumarin~” finds coumadin, coumerin, coumaric, etc. ) This is especially helpful when searching text that has been OCR’ed.
See the LTDL
Search Help for more information on fuzzy searching.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
TobaccoWiki
Try out the new tobacco document research site
TobaccoWiki (http://www.tobaccowiki.org/) - an online collaborative research project to which anyone can contribute.
Tobaccowiki is a portal site on
http://www.sourcewatch.org/ and it was created to encourage more people around the world to engage in tobacco document research. Some of the great features of
TobaccoWiki include the
Tobacco Documents Biographies database containing names and descriptions of thousands people involved with the industry, a database of
Industry Projects and Operations, and a database of
Industry-Related Organizations. There is a section for
Consumer Letters, and links to information on additives, brands and brand information, and much more. Access
TobaccoWiki now and join in this collaborative project to improve access to information contained in the tobacco industry's documents!
Thursday, August 09, 2007
American Legacy Foundation honors Prof. Stan Glantz
The American Legacy Foundation has announced a gift to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to honor Dr. Stanton Glantz with a new Distinguished Professorship in Tobacco Control. Glantz, the first recipient of this distinguished chair for the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF, is a widely respected scientist and advocate for tobacco control. Among his many personal and professional achievements, Professor Glantz is the head of the national advocacy program, Smoke Free Movies, a member of a number of scientific peer review bodies, and co-author of The Cigarette Papers as well as over 20 other books and more than 200 scholarly articles.
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