Collections
Monday, August 31, 2009TOBACCO

15 New/Revised Papers Added to the Bibliography

Read up! New research into advertising, cigarette design, marketing to young adults and more. 15 new or newly revised papers were added to the the Tobacco Documents Bibliography. Access this comprehensive guide on the UCSF Tobacco Control Archives site or through RefWorks/Refshare on our shared folder.
Thursday, August 27, 2009TOBACCO

New Research Collections and New Docs Added

63,905 documents have been added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today!

Included in this large batch are:

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LTDL has a new collection of documents available to explore - the Research Collections. These are smaller collections of industry documents that were gathered by individuals and/or organizations during the course of specific research or litigation.

We have acquired the following individual research collections from Tobacco Documents Online (TDO) and will be adding more collections in the near future:

  • Ness Motley Collection - 36,108 documents
  • Product Design - 9,550 documents
  • Potential Reduced Exposure Products (PREPs) - 909 documents
  • Industry-Provided Depositions - 2,249 documents

Please access http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/about/about_research_collections.jsp for more information on these new collections.

Friday, August 21, 2009TOBACCO

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, 2009TOBACCO

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
Thursday, July 16, 2009TOBACCO

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, 2009TOBACCO

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, 2009TOBACCO

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