Wednesday, August 15, 2007
TOBACCOTobaccoWiki
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
TOBACCOAmerican 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.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
TOBACCOLTDL wins the Rogers Award
The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library was awarded the Thomson Scientific/Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award by the Medical Libraries Association (MLA) at its 2007 annual meeting. The Rogers Award, sponsored by Thomson Scientific, is presented annually in recognition of outstanding contributions for the application of technology to the delivery of health science information, to the science of information, or to the facilitation of the delivery of health science information. Rogers was the director of the National Library of Medicine from 1949 to 1963.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
TOBACCONew Collections and Features
Liggett & Myers Collection and RPCI Records Added
- Approximately 400,000 pages of Liggett & Myers internal documents have been added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. In 1997, Liggett & Myers, the smallest of the five major tobacco companies, became the first to settle lawsuits in 22 states and to help state prosecutors litigate against the nation’s biggest cigarette manufacturers by providing evidence of industry strategies and tactics. Because of their early compliance with prosecutors, L&M was not included in the Master Settlement Agreement stipulation for creation of company document websites, meaning these documents exist nowhere else in electronic format.The new Liggett & Myers collection can be searched in conjunction with the other tobacco company collections or as a single collection.
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) has scanned the document collections of the Tobacco Institute and Council for Tobacco Research whose collections also contain several thousand audiovisual tapes which focus primarily on tobacco industry public relations efforts. The records of these new resources have been integrated into the LTDL Multimedia Collection and are available for viewing through RPCI.
Basic Search Tutorial Available
Those new to the LTDL site can now view a tutorial that provides a quick overview of how to conduct a basic search on the documents. The tutorial can be found on the home page as well as on the Search Help page.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
TOBACCOThe New LTDL Has Arrived!
As you can see, the LTDL has a different look and new features we hope will provide an improved research experience for all levels of users. If you have any problems with the site, questions about how to use some of the new features, or just want to give us feed back, please contact us by clicking on the "Questions or Comments?" link found on the left-hand menu of every page.
Friday, March 16, 2007
TOBACCOCommunity Training Workshop
The Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education is holding an annual one-day workshop in June for community-based advocates on using tobacco industry documents for advocacy. The workshop covers:
introduction to the on-line tobacco industry documents;
hands-on practice searching tobacco industry documents databases under the supervision of expert documents researchers;
examples of ways in which the documents can be of use for public health work in your community; and
opportunities to meet and brainstorm with top documents researchers and other advocates.
The workshop is held at the University of California, San Francisco, Kalmanovitz Library, 530 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, California. To receive information about the 2007 workshop, contact Jenni Alexander at jenni.alexander(at)ucsf.edu.
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