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| 12/15/2004 |
| LTDL Adds Lorillard & Philip Morris Documents to Collections |
On December 15th, 2004, the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library added 314 Lorillard documents & 979 Philip Morris
documents totaling 13,485 pages to its collections.
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| 11/17/2004 |
| American Legacy Foundation Accepting Nominations for Tobacco Industry Documents Awards |
The American Legacy Foundation is currently accepting nominations for two awards.
Each award recipient will receive a $7,500 cash award. The deadline for submission of nomination materials is close-of-business on
December 31, 2004. More details, as well as the nomination form, are available here.
The Sybil G. Jacobs Award for Outstanding Use of Tobacco Industry Documents recognizes a person who has made a significant and
well-recognized contribution to the health of the public in the recent past through use of tobacco documents. The award honors
innovation in the use and application of tobacco industry documents to improve the public's health and, where applicable, to
further the goals of tobacco prevention and control in order to help build a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit.
Those nominated should be individuals who have made a notable impact through innovative use of tobacco industry documents as applied to
research, policy, or advocacy.
The Christine O. Gregoire Youth/Young Adult Award for Outstanding Use of Tobacco Industry Documents recognizes a person
24 years of age or younger who has made a contribution to the health of the public in the recent past through use of tobacco documents.
The award honors innovation in the use and application of tobacco industry documents to improve the public's health and,
where applicable, to further the goals of tobacco prevention and control in order to help build a world where young people reject
tobacco and anyone can quit. Those nominated should be individuals who have made a notable impact through innovative use of tobacco
industry documents as applied to research, policy, or advocacy.
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| 10/26/2004 |
| British American Tobacco Documents Released Online |
On October 26th, the UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management
released online a million pages of formerly secret documents belonging to
the world's second largest tobacco company, British American Tobacco (BAT).
The papers provide insights into tobacco industry activity worldwide,
including strategies to gain increasing shares of the cigarette market in
Asia and Eastern Europe. More than six million pages will be released on
the Internet over the next three years.
The documents were supposed to be available to the public as part of a 1998
settlement against the tobacco industry, but BAT has restricted access,
refusing to supply documents electronically and sometimes taking a year or
more to process photocopy requests.
A joint project of the Library and Center for Knowledge Management and the
Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF, the creation of
permanent online access for the documents is part of the larger Guildford
Archiving Project undertaken with researchers at the London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Mayo Clinic to obtain, digitize,
index, and publicly release the papers
UCSF's work has been supported by a grant of about $1 million from the
Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute, established in 2000 as
a result of the settlement of a class action suit against the tobacco
industry on behalf of flight attendants exposed to secondhand smoke. Other
funders of the archive are the Wellcome Trust, Health Canada, Cancer
Research UK, and the American Heart Association.
The new online archive can be accessed here.
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| 10/25/2004 |
| Updated EndNote filter for Tobacco Control Archives collections |
In conjunction with launching the British American Tobacco Documents Archive (BATDA), the UCSF Library has
released an updated EndNote filter. The revision enables users to download records both from BATDA and from the Legacy Tobacco Documents
Library using a single filter. The revised filter also incorporates minor changes suggested by users, including document page
counts and estimated dates.
We strongly encourage all users to download the updated filter and make the minor modifications outlined in order to take full
advantage of EndNote compatibility. You may continue to work with the original filter if you prefer, in which case no action is required.
Please note, however, that from now on anyone downloading the filter will be downloading the new filter.
View instructions and download the filter here.
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| 10/18/2004 |
| LTDL Offers Faster Access to Newly Released Industry Documents |
The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library has advanced from adding newly released documents on a monthly basis to adding them
within about 48 hours of their appearance on industry documents Web sites. The industry sites are monitored on a daily basis
for new documents, grabbed within 24 hours of appearing, processed, then added to the LTDL. Users now have faster one-stop access to
available industry documents.
The LTDL added 104 Lorillard documents, 2,060 Philip Morris documents, & 50,249 RJ Reynolds documents totaling 248,111 pages.
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| 09/15/2004 |
| LTDL Adds Depositions & Trial Testimony Archive |
On September 15th, 2004, the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library added the Tobacco Depositions & Trial Testimony Archive
(Tobacco DATTA) to its tobacco industry document resources. Tobacco DATTA contains transcripts from tobacco-related litigation, collected
from a variety of sources by the Center for Tobacco Use Prevention and Research in Okemos, Michigan.
Unlike other LTDL collections, Tobacco DATTA is a full-text archive; users search the text of the transcript as well as the document
index record. Tobacco DATTA currently contains 676 searchable PDFs (sPDFs) totaling 113,163 pages.
The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library also added 2,403 pages to its Brown & Williamson collection, 118,314 pages to its Lorillard collection,
1476 pages to its RJ Reynolds collection, and 36,662 pages to its Tobacco Institute collection, bringing the LTDL to 7,102,891
documents totaling 41,599,103 pages.
This 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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| 08/12/2004 |
| LTDL Adds 29,044 Pages to RJ Reynolds Collection |
On August 12th, 2004, the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library added 29,044 pages to its RJ Reynolds collection.
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| 07/15/2004 |
| LTDL Adds Documents to Lorillard, Philip Morris, & RJ Reynolds Collections |
On July 15th, 2004, the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library added 44,899 documents containing 157,181 pages to its Lorillard, Philip Morris, & RJ Reynolds collections.
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| 06/18/2004 |
| LTDL Adds 69,210 Documents to Philip Morris Collection |
On June 18th, 2004, the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library added 69,210 documents containing 175,757 pages to its Philip Morris collection. Of these, 1152 documents were previously privileged, totaling 6,202 pages.
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| 06/01/2004 |
| Guildford Archiving Project Announced |
Guildford Archiving Project announced: http://bat.library.ucsf.edu
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| 05/17/2004 |
| LTDL Adds 35,046 Documents to Lorillard Collection |
On May 17th, 2004, the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library added 35,046 documents containing 226,523 pages to its Lorillard collection.
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| 04/15/2004 |
| LTDL Adds 1,402 Documents, 11,436 Pages to Four Collections |
On April 15th, 2004, the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library added 1,402 documents containing 11,436 pages to its Lorillard, R.J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson, and American Tobacco collections.
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| 03/18/2004 |
| LTDL Posts Glossary of Names for Philip Morris Privilege Log |
On March 18th, 2004, the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library posted the Glossary of Names from the Philip Morris document site. The Glossary of
Names provides information about individuals mentioned in Philip Morris's privileged documents.
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| 03/15/2004 |
| LTDL Enhances Privileged Documents Search |
On March 15th, 2004, the UCSF Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management improved users� ability to search
privilege log records on the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. Three collections in the LTDL - Philip Morris, R. J. Reynolds, and
Lorillard - include records of documents withheld from the courts due to claims of privilege.
Now users can search the status field in these collections for the term priv to identify those document records.
For example, searching for priv in the status field and for priv in the authors field will retrieve records of privileged documents
authored by former Philip Morris Chairman of the Board and CEO Geoffrey C. Bible.
The Library has also added 31,730 tobacco industry documents, bringing the total number of documents in the collection to
6,930,850. The March update is part of a regular series of monthly document releases. Recently collected industry documents are
added to the LTDL on the 15th of each month.
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| 01/15/2004 |
| LTDL Celebrates Second Anniversary |
This month, the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library at the UCSF Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge
Management celebrates its second anniversary. Since the LTDL went live on January 31st, 2002, users have accessed the
system a total of 634,799 times and have generated 4,000,022 page views. The site has seen an average of 891 visitors
each day and has served 1,480,921 industry documents.
On January 15th, 2004, an additional 9,183 tobacco industry documents were added to the LTDL, bringing the total number
of documents in the collection to 6,899,120.
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