Thursday, December 15, 2011
TOBACCOLTDL to Receive $6.25M for Document Indexing and Access
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a proposed consent order on December 14, 2011 with a federal district court that finalized requirements for three major tobacco companies to make internal documents public in accordance with an earlier ruling that the companies violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The documents have been and will continue to be archived in UCSF’s Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL).
The order is part of the remedy phase of the largest civil racketeering (RICO) case in the history of the United States and specifies that the companies provide $6.25 million to the court to improve public access and indexing of the documents. These funds will go to the UCSF Legacy Tobacco Documents Library for this purpose.
“These funds will allow us to substantially improve the way investigators, the media and the public are able to research how tobacco companies produce, price and market their products as well as protect their political interests globally,” said Kim Klausner, UCSF Industry Documents Digital Library Manager.
“Research based on the documents has provided a unique insight into how the tobacco industry manipulates scientific and political processes and engineers its products and marketing to maximize its sales,” said Stanton A. Glantz, PhD, UCSF professor of medicine and director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF. “By revealing the industry’s behind-the-scenes strategies and involvement, this understanding has transformed public health from city councils to the United Nations.”
Read more at:
http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2011/12/11138/ucsf-receive-tobacco-papers-funding-improve-public-access-documentsThursday, December 01, 2011
TOBACCOUCSF Tobacco Center Fellowship - Still Taking Apps!
Apply now for the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Tobacco Control Research at UCSF: Applications are due January 25, 2012 for fellowships beginning July 2, 2012.
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 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 CTCRE 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.
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. Monday, November 14, 2011
TOBACCONew PM and Multimedia Documents
1364 documents posted to the Legacy Tobacco Documents on Nov 10, 2011:
1236
Philip Morris documents 128 -
Multimedia recordsTo retrieve all 1364 new documents, go to the
Search page and search for the date the documents were added to LTDL (in a yyyymmdd format) in the "Date added to UCSF" field like -
ddu:20111110 Thursday, October 13, 2011
TOBACCO64,000+ 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.
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