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| 12/15/2003 |
| LTDL Adds RJR, Lorillard Privilege Logs; Document Additions in 2003 Total 1,450,862 |
On December 15, 2003, the UCSF Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management added 24,797 Lorillard and more
than 50,000 RJ Reynolds privilege log records to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. Items listed in the privilege logs have been
withheld from production in litigation based upon claims of attorney-client privilege, work product protection, and/or
joint defense/common legal interest privilege. Privilege log records provide all available information about withheld documents,
including the legal reason given for the privilege claim.
LTDL also added 9,431 tobacco industry documents to the LTDL, bringing the total number of documents added in 2003 to 1,450,862.
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| 11/15/2003 |
| Library Adds RJR �Topic� Field, 61,656 Recently Released Documents |
On November 15, 2003, the UCSF Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management added topic information for
more than 800,000 R. J. Reynolds documents. The topic data, created by R. J. Reynolds, allows users to search RJR documents by subject
categories such as Ethnic Market and Young Adult Smoking.
The Library also added 61,656 tobacco industry documents to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, including 1,303 formerly privileged
documents recently released on the Philip Morris documents web site. The Library collected the documents 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 bring the LTDL virtually up-to-date with the Brown & Williamson, American Tobacco, R.J. Reynolds,
and Lorillard websites and include documents added to the Philip Morris site through 11/09/03.
November�s update is part of a regular series of monthly document releases. Recently collected industry documents are added to the
Legacy Tobacco Documents Library on the 15th of each month.
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| 10/15/2003 |
| LTDL Adds Documents, Feature Enhancements; Number of Pages Surpasses 38 Million |
On October 15, 2003, the UCSF Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management added 9,442 tobacco industry documents
to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. The Library collected the documents from the American Tobacco, Brown & Williamson, Center
for Tobacco Research, Lorillard, RJ Reynolds, and Tobacco Institute document websites 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 bring the
LTDL collection to more than 38 million pages.
In response to user feedback and to enhance system performance, the Library implemented a new default sorting order for search results.
LTDL now sorts search results by ascending document date, grouped by collection. Manual sorting options, for search results sets of
less than 5000, have not changed. For more details, see our Search Help page.
The Library has also revised the Format for Citing Tobacco Documents in coordination
with the editors of Tobacco Control. The EndNote Tobacco Document Style has been altered
slightly to conform to the revised format. The updated style appears on the LTDL EndNote Help page.
October�s update is part of a regular series of monthly document releases. Recently collected industry documents are
added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library on the 15th of each month.
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| 10/13/2003 |
| Tobacco Control Policy Fellowship |
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.
Participants will be eligible to participate in coursework offered by the existing training programs at UCSF.
In addition, postgraduate researchers will:
- Attend Tobacco Control Policy Issues course
- Attend Cancer Center Seminar series
- Attend Writing Seminar and Health Policy Seminar
Stipends available through the program range from approximately $37,000-$53,000 annually--depending on years of postdoctoral experience. The application deadline is January 30, 2004 and the fellowship begins July 1, 2004.
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
Email: erikac@itsa.ucsf.edu
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| 09/15/2003 |
| Library Adds Access to Philip Morris Privilege Log Records, Documents from Four Tobacco Companies |
On September 15, 2003, the UCSF Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management added more than 146,000
records from the Philip Morris Consolidated Privilege Log to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. Documents listed in the
Privilege Log have been "withheld from production, in Attorney General actions and other specified civil smoking and health
actions based upon claim(s) of attorney-client privilege, work product protection and/or joint defense/common legal interest privilege."
Privilege Log records provide all available information about withheld documents, including the legal reason given for the privilege claim.
Researchers can now search the privilege log records as part of LTDL�s Philip Morris collection. For more information about Philip
Morris Privilege Logs, please see this page.
The Library also added 128,731 tobacco industry documents to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. The Library collected the
documents from the American Tobacco, Brown & Williamson, Philip Morris, and RJ Reynolds document websites
as part of an ongoing effort to integrate and make permanently available documents released by the tobacco industry since July 1999.
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| 08/15/2003 |
| Introducing EndNote-compatible features; 76,000 Phillip Morris Documents Added |
On August 15, 2003, the UCSF Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management
debuted features to facilitate use of the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) with the
popular bibliography software EndNote. The new and improved LTDL Bookbag makes it easy to download document
records in EndNote-ready format, and the LTDL EndNote Filter allows the records to be imported into an EndNote
"Reference Library".
More details on LTDL�s EndNote-related features are on our EndNote help page.
The Library also added 76,233 tobacco industry documents to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. 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 bring the LTDL up-to-date with
the Philip Morris site through 08/15/03 and increase the Library's holdings to more than 37 million pages of tobacco industry documents.
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| 08/12/2003 |
| Visit The Online Wall Of History |
On May 12, 2003, at the Kalmanovitz Library on UCSF's Parnassus Heights campus, The American Legacy Foundation and
UCSF unveiled a wall of history to commemorate ongoing tobacco control efforts. The permanent exhibit wall,
called "The Cigarette Papers," includes a timeline of historically significant events and spotlights crucially
important documents.
In July, 2003, an online version of the wall debuted. At http://tobaccowall.ucsf.edu you
can peruse the wall's text and the timeline, and follow links to PDFs of cited documents as well as to other relevant online resources.
The Cigarette Papers exhibit introduction sums up the lethal
effects of tobacco. "Tobacco is the leading preventable cause of death:
cigarettes and other tobacco products kill 405,000 American smokers and 53,000
non-smokers every year. This toll exceeds the deaths resulting from alcohol
abuse, AIDS, traffic accidents, homicides and suicides combined." Read more about the Wall
at UCSF.
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| 06/15/2003 |
| Library Adds 44,000 Documents from R.J. Reynolds and Tobacco Institute |
On June 15, 2003, the UCSF Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management added 44,665 tobacco industry documents to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL). The Library collected the documents from the Tobacco Institute and R.J. Reynolds document websites as part of an ongoing effort to integrate and make permanently available documents released by the tobacco industry since July 1999.
June�s update is part of a regular series of monthly document releases. Recently collected industry documents are added
to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library on the 15th of each month. The newly added documents comprise more than 426,000 pages, and
bring the l number of pages added to the LTDL website in the last 3 months to just over one million. The Legacy Tobacco Documents
Library now contains nearly 37 million pages of tobacco industry documents.
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| 06/5/2003 |
| American Legacy Foundation Announces Tobacco Industry Documents Awards Online Nomination System |
Nominations are now being accepted for two prestigious new
honors from the American Legacy Foundation: Sybil G. Jacobs Adult Award and
Christine O. Gregoire Youth/Young Adult Award, both of which recognize outstanding achievements in the use of tobacco industry documents.
Award winners will receive $7,500 each and be honored at a Legacy Awards Dinner in New York on November 24, 2003. Researchers,
policymakers and activists who have utilized tobacco industry documents to benefit the public may be nominated. Nominations can
be made online at www.americanlegacy.org/awards.
Submissions for nominations close on July 25, 2003.
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| 05/15/2003 |
| LTDL Tutorial Debuts; 17,000 Documents Added |
On May 15, 2003, the UCSF Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management debuted an online tutorial
for the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL). This interactive tutorial consists of 2 modules--one aimed at those new
to using the LTDL and the other for advanced users. Both modules, each designed to take less than an hour, explain and demonstrate
search features using realistic research scenarios.
The tutorial compliments the library�s existing help documentation and the Brief Guide to Searching LTDL as resources for using the
Library more effectively.
The Library also added 17,373 tobacco industry documents to the LTDL. The documents were collected from the American Tobacco,
Brown & Williamson, and RJ Reynolds document websites 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 bring the
LTDL virtually up-to-date with these websites. Recently collected industry documents are added to the
Legacy Tobacco Documents Library on the 15th of each month.
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| 04/15/2003 |
| LTDL Adds 110,000 Documents from Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds |
On April 15, 2003, the UCSF Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management added 110,336 tobacco industry documents to
the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. The update adds more than 500,000 pages from the Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds companies to the
Library�s collection.
April�s update is part of a regular series of monthly document releases. Recently collected industry documents are added to
the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library on the 15th of each month.
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| 03/15/2003 |
| Library Adds 120,000 Documents, Maintains Currency with Most Industry Sites |
On March 15, 2003, the UCSF Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management added 120,844 tobacco industry
documents to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. The Library collected the documents from the Tobacco Institute, Brown & Williamson,
Philip Morris, and RJ Reynolds document websites as part of an ongoing effort to integrate and make permanently available documents
released by the tobacco industry since July 1999.
In January of this year the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library began making regular site announcements of newly acquired documents on the
15th of each month. Over the past three months the library has added more than 800,000 documents (3.5 million pages) to its collection.
The LTDL now includes a total of nearly 6.5 million documents from the Tobacco Industry comprising nearly 36 million pages. For more
information about the origins and makeup of the LTDL collection see the About the Data page.
The current update brings the LTDL virtually up-to-date with the Brown & Williamson, Council for Tobacco Research, Lorillard, RJ Reynolds,
and Tobacco Institute websites, and includes documents added to the Philip Morris site through 03/05/03 and American Tobacco site
through 01/09/03.
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| 01/15/2003 |
| Library Adds 500,000 Documents, Begins Monthly announcements |
On January 15, 2003, the UCSF Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management added 561,316 tobacco industry
documents to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, increasing the LTDL�s total holdings to more than 6 million documents.
The Library collected the documents from the Philip Morris, Lorillard, and RJ Reynolds document websites 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 bring the LTDL current with the Lorillard and RJ Reynolds websites and include documents on the Philip Morris site
through 12/30/03.
January�s update marks the beginning of regular monthly document releases. Recently collected industry documents will be added to
the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library on the 15th of each month.
The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library contains nearly 33 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. Visit the LTDL at http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu.
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