Monday, July 14, 2008TOBACCO

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, 2008TOBACCO

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

Monday, May 19, 2008TOBACCO

New Documents and Features

Over 800 new DATTA documents and 900+ new Philip Morris documents were added to LTDL today.

To see the new docs, do a search for 20080519 (May 19, 2008) in the date added to UCSF field (ddu:)-
ddu:20080519

Also in this new release, we have created a section called "Getting Started" which is intended for visitors that are new to the site or unfamiliar with LTDL's content. You will find the link for the section on the help page as well as the home page directly under Search the Documents -


"Getting Started" points the user to the search tutorial, highlights the types of documents and resources on LTDL, and provides examples of how others have used the tobacco documents for research projects, newspaper articles, exhibits, and more.

Friday, April 04, 2008TOBACCO

Bookmark and Share Resources

LTDL rolled out some new features today that will make viewing, saving and sharing documents even easier:

We have added a "Bookmark" button to the homepage, the multimedia collection page, and every document PDF page. Clicking on this button allows you to save the page/document you are viewing to your Facebook, Del.icio.us, Digg, Google Bookmarks and Furl accounts (to name just a few) and share it with others.

When you open a document as a PDF you will notice, in addition to the "Bookmark" button, new functionality at the top of the document above the Adobe toolbar...



From the PDF you are now able to navigate to the Next/Previous Bates numbers, add the document to your bookbag, and go directly to the pURL page with the permanent bookmark link.

As always, we need your comments and feedback - Please let us know how these features are working for you.

Tuesday, April 01, 2008TOBACCO

Tobacco Documents Bibliography Updated

We have added 12 new items to the UCSF Tobacco Documents Bibliography. Every quarter we search for papers, reports and books that have been written using the tobacco documents - if you notice we have missed a paper or you have authored a work that is not listed, please contact us using either the "Contact Us" link on this News Blog or through the LTDL website.

Friday, March 14, 2008TOBACCO

5th Annual Tobacco Documents Workshop

PUTTING THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY’S WORDS TO WORK FOR YOU

Tobacco Control Advocacy and Corporate Accountability Event: Register Now!

The University of California, San Francisco Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, an interdisciplinary research community, announces its one-day workshop on using tobacco industry documents for advocacy.

The workshop will cover:
introduction to tobacco industry documents databases; hands-on practice searching and extracting key industry documents under the supervision of expert documents researchers; examples of ways in which the documents can be used to promote tobacco-free communities; and opportunities to network and brainstorm with top documents researchers and other advocates.

Featuring:
• Carol McGruder, the 2007 recipient of the American Legacy Foundation Community Activist Award

• Social/Networking hour hosted by Stanton Glantz, Professor of Medicine and Director of the CTCRE

• Jono Polansky, owner of Onbeyond LLC, a company directing empowering “Campaigns that Change Things.”

• Friday Night Live free special pre-workshop, “How to Make Changes in Public Policy,” with attorney/policy expert Richard Barnes.

Cost: $25 registration fee to reserve your place, refundable upon completion of the workshop. Deadline is April 16th. Registration is on first come, first served basis and space is limited to 40 participants. A California cuisine lunch and resource materials will be provided. The locations are ADA accessible.

Date: Saturday, May 17, 2008
Time: 10:15 am to 5:30 pm
Place: University of California, San Francisco, Kalmanovitz Library
530 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, California

For more information and to register for the workshop, please contact: Jenni Alexander, Jenni.Alexander@ucsf.edu or 415 502 6341.

Monday, March 10, 2008TOBACCO

New PM Docs Posted

112,571 Philip Morris (PM) documents were added to LTDL today, March 10, 2008.

To find these new additions, conduct a search for documents added to LTDL on March 10, 2008 --> Enter "ddu:20080310" in the Expert Search box without quotes.

LTDL now contains 43,997,241 pages in 8,262,833 documents.

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