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12/09/2002

LTDL Adds 475,000 Philip Morris Documents

The UCSF Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management have added 475,000 Philip Morris documents to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, increasing the digital library's total holdings to more than 5.5 million documents.
The Library collected the documents from the Philip Morris document website as part of an ongoing effort to integrate and make permanently available documents released by the tobacco industry since July 1999. The newly added documents include those added to the Philip Morris site up to November 2002.

11/22/2002

Download the Brief Guide to Searching the LTDL

This illustrated guide (in PDF format) provides an introduction to simple and advanced searching, restricting by document date, navigating and saving search results, and options for document viewing and printing.

11/15/2002

LTDL Adds Council for Tobacco Research Documents

The UCSF Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management has added 259,641 Council for Tobacco Research (CTR) documents to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, increasing the Library�s total holdings to more than 5 million documents. The Library collected the documents from the CTR's document website as part of an ongoing effort to integrate and make permanently available documents released by the tobacco industry since July 1999. The newly added documents include those added to CTR's site through October 2002.

11/4/2002

Tobacco Control Policy Fellowships Available

Two-year fellowship positions are available in the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco.

We will train scholars at the postdoctoral and advanced (senior scholar) level. Fellows will be recruited from a variety of fields, including basic sciences, social sciences, clinical fields, public health practitioners, marketing, political science, history, economics and law.
The training program objective is to conduct policy-relevant research related to the retrieval and use of tobacco industry documents. In addition, postgraduate researchers will:

Attend History of Tobacco Control Policy course
Attend Cancer Center Seminar series
Attend Writing Seminar and Health Policy Seminar
Be eligible to participate in coursework offered by the existing training programs at UCSF

Stipends available through the program range from $36,092-$53,852 annually-depending on years of postdoctoral experience. The fellowship begins July 1, 2003. The application deadline is January 31, 2003.

Please direct requests for information and application to:

Erika Campbell
University of California, San Francisco
530 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 366
San Francisco, CA 94143-1390
Phone: 415/476.4958 Fax: 415/514-9345
erikac@itsa.ucsf.edu

10/18/2002

LTDL Gains Additional R.J. Reynolds Documents

The UCSF Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management has added 330,524 R.J. Reynolds documents to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, bringing the Library's total holdings to almost 4.9 million documents. The Library collected the documents from the R.J. Reynolds Online Litigation Document Website as part of an ongoing effort to integrate and make permanently available documents released by the tobacco industry since July 1999. The newly added documents include those added to RJR's site through July 2002.
The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library contains almost 30 million pages of tobacco industry documents. The digital library was opened to the public on January 31, 2002, and is a freely available online resource.

Please contact the project team by using our contact form if you have any questions.

9/25/2002

135,000 Documents and New Search Feature Added

The UCSF Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management has added more than 135,000 tobacco industry documents to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. The Library collected the new documents from the Brown & Williamson and Tobacco Institute document web sites as part of an ongoing effort to integrate and make permanently available documents released by the tobacco industry since July 1999.
To facilitate searching recently added documents, the Library has also enhanced search capabilities. Users can now restrict searches to documents added since a specific date or search only documents added on a specific date. For example to search only the documents added in the update announced above, users would enter 20020925. This feature is available on the Advanced Search page. For more information about the new search functionality, please see the LTDL Search Help page.

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library contains more than 24 million pages of tobacco industry documents. The digital library was opened to the public on January 31, 2002, and is a freely available online resource.
Please contact the project team by using our contact form if you have any questions.

8/12/2002

Browse Search Terms

The UCSF Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management released a new feature for the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library: Browse Search Terms. Browse Search Terms allows users to browse alphabetical lists of terms--including chemical, personal, and corporate names; misspellings; typographical errors; and abbreviations--that appear at least once in the Library�s more than 24 million pages of tobacco industry documents. Researchers could, for example, use the lists to find the various forms in which a personal or company name appears, to check for alternate forms of a word, or to discover new terms to include in their searches.

Users can access this feature after choosing either the Advanced Search or Simple Search method from the Search page.

7/9/2002

Additions To The Library

The UCSF Kalmanovitz Library and Center for Knowledge Management will release 362,700 more documents on the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library and transfer two collections from the library's Tobacco Control Archives. The Philip Morris collection increased the most, gaining 328,000 new documents, some dated as recent as February 2001. The Lorillard and American Tobacco collections also expanded. Users can expect several more releases in the next few months, increasing the library by one million documents.

The two new collections are the Mangini documents and the UCSF Brown and Williamson collection. The Mangini collection contains over 4,000 documents concerning the Joe Camel Campaign. The UCSF Brown and Williamson collection was donated to the Library in 1994 and released following the settlement of a lawsuit between the company and the University of California.

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library contains more than 24 million pages of tobacco industry documents. The digital library was open to searchers on January 31, 2002 and is a freely available online resource.

Please contact the project team if you have any questions about these new features by using our contact form.

4/22/2002

Searching Enhancements for The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library

The UCSF Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management will release two new features for the freely available Legacy Tobacco Documents Library - date range searching and a citable URL (web address) for each industry document.

In response to requests the following features are being added to enhance searching of the document library. Date range searching will narrow searches to a range of dates or a specific date. This feature is available through the Advanced Search function.

Secondly, a new short web address will appear for each document citation when search results are listed in the Bookmarks. The document URL will remain valid as a long-term bookmark. Entering the URL in a browser address window will call up the document without doing a search of the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library.

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library contains more than 20 million pages of tobacco industry documents. The digital library was open to searchers on January 31, 2002 and is a freely available online resource.

1/31/2002

Digital Library Of Secret Tobacco Documents Released By UCSF

The UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management today released on the internet the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, a collection of more than 20 million pages of previously secret documents from tobacco industry files. The documents represent the world's largest public digital collection maintained by a library. The searchable collection can be accessed at legacy.library.ucsf.edu.

Ranging in date from the 1930s to the 1990s, the documents cover projects central to the tobacco industry such as marketing, research and development, cigarette analysis and design, as well as industry efforts to establish business in developing countries. The documents were obtained through the legal discovery process for a lawsuit against the major tobacco companies by the Attorney General of Minnesota and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Minnesota, and suits brought by other states. The suit was settled in 1998. Funding for the project comes from the American Legacy Foundation (Legacy), which exactly one year ago awarded $15 million to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to establish permanent internet access to the documents and to develop a center for scholarly study of the material. UCSF is a national leader in research examining tobacco industry practices as well as the health effects of tobacco. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provided additional support.

"We have accomplished what we promised one year ago - the creation of a single portal into the working files of the major tobacco companies," said Karen Butter, UCSF assistant vice chancellor, library services and instruction technology. "The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library serves as a free and permanent home for more than 24 million pages." Most of the documents have been obtained through litigation involving 46 state attorneys general. They were previously released, but on disparate industry websites with accessed assured only until 2008. The Legacy support assures free, permanent, stable internet access. "By preserving and ensuring access to the sordid history told in the tales of the tobacco industry documents, there is hope that as a nation we will not allow a repeat of the mistakes and misdeeds of the past," said Cheryl G. Healton, DrPH, president and chief executive officer of American Legacy Foundation. "Using what we learn and being more informed today, we will protect the health of millions of Americans."

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) allows seven separate document collections to be searched through one user-friendly interface. Users can perform simple or advanced searches, view documents in a variety of image formats (PDF, TIFF, or simply in the window of the web browser) and collect findings in a digital bookbag which can be downloaded or emailed. The site also provides information on topics related to the documents, such as history of tobacco, litigation, tobacco use and health, and youth smoking. More documents will be added to the digital collection over the next 18 months. The UCSF Library, which hosts the LTDL, has been a leader in the field of tobacco industry document research and access since UCSF established the Library Tobacco Control Archives (TCA) in 1994. TCA provides a centralized source of information about the tobacco control movement and resulting legislation. It collects, preserves, and provides access to papers, unpublished documents, and electronic resources. Highlights include the Brown & Williamson Collection-the first tobacco industry documents to be released on the Internet- documentation of the lawsuit challenging the Joe Camel ad campaign, and the British American Tobacco Company Collection, offering a small number of digital documents from a print-only depository in the UK. The American Legacy Foundation is a national, independent Washington D.C.-based foundation created by the November 1998 Master Settlement Agreement. The foundation is dedicated to reducing tobacco use in the U.S. with major initiatives reaching youth, women, and priority populations through grant awards, research initiatives, marketing campaigns, training programs, and collaboration with national and local partners. The American Legacy Foundation's website is www.americanlegacy.org.