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| 12/21/2005 |
| Tobacco Control Fellowship Positions at UCSF's Center for Tobacco Research and Education |
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 objectives are to:
- Conduct policy-relevant research related to tobacco control.
In addition, postgraduate researchers will:
- Attend Tobacco Control Policy Issues course
- Attend Cancer Center Tobacco Seminar
- Attend Writing Seminar and Health Policy Seminar
Will be eligible to participate in coursework offered by the existing training programs at UCSF
Stipends available through the program range from approximately $35,000-$51,000 annually-depending on years of postdoctoral experience.
The application deadline is January 31, 2006 and the fellowship begins July 1, 2006. Please direct requests for information and applications to:
Jessica Knox
University of California, San Francisco
530 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 366
San Francisco, CA 94143-1390
Phone: 415/476-0140 Fax: 415/514-9345
Email: jessica.knox@ucsf.edu
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| 10/19/2005 |
| Library Announces Full Text Demonstration Site |
The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) contains more than 7 million internal tobacco
industry documents (40+ million pages). Since the Library was
launched in January 2002, users have been able to search metadata
(title, author, date, etc.) associated with the documents but have
not been able to search the full text within the document pages.
In 2004, with funding from the National Cancer
Institute, the UCSF Library's Center for Knowledge Management
embarked upon a project to extract text from the document images
using optical character recognition software. Utilizing idle
workstations in a student computer lab, the team developed an
automated method to "OCR" all 40+ million pages in the LTDL and then
generate 7 million searchable PDF documents.
In September 2005, the Library announced the Legacy
Tobacco Documents Library Full Text Demonstration (FTD) site (http://ltdlftd.library.ucsf.edu/).
The FTD makes accessible virtually all pages of 7+ million LTDL
documents in a basic search interface. The Library has released this
demonstration site to provide broad public access to the full text of
the documents as soon as possible. The "OCR" project's next phase
will entail creating a full-featured research site.
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| 7/08/2005 |
| LTDL Adds "Bliley" Documents |
The UCSF Library is pleased to announce that as of Wednesday, September 20, 2006 the Legacy Tobacco
On July 8th, 2005, the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library added approximately 32,000 documents known together as the
"Bliley" collection. The "Bliley" collection comprises documents that defendants in State of Minnesota v. Philip Morris, et al,
claimed were privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. A Special Master appointed by the Court determined that the documents
were not privileged or were subject to the crime fraud exception to attorney-client privilege; the Court subsequently adopted those
findings and ruled that the documents be produced. While the companies disputed that ruling in court, Congressman Thomas Bliley,
then Chairman of the House Commerce Committee, subpoenaed the documents in question and soon after receipt posted them on the
Commerce Committee web site. A concise history of the "Bliley" collection appears in a recent ruling by the U.S. District Court,
District of Columbia
(212 FRD 421 DDC 2002).
For ease of searching, the "Bliley" documents have been integrated
into the industry collections from which they originated.
Users might be particularly interested in "Bliley" documents that are
currently unavailable on the industry documents sites because the
companies still assert privilege over them. To find this subset of
documents, begin by navigating to "Search the Collections".��
For Step 1, click "Clear All," then check the
boxes next to the Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds, and Lorillard
documents. For Step 2, select "Advanced Search" and click "Next." For
Step 3, on the Advanced Search page, enter "Bliley" in the first
search box and choose "special collections" from the first pull down
menu, then enter priv in the second search box and choose "status"
from the second pull down menu.� For more detailed information about
searching the collection, see "Searching
"Bliley" Documents."
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| 4/15/2005 |
| LTDL Adds New Documents to Collections |
On April 15th, 2005, the Legacy Tobacco Documents
Library added 6 RJ Reynolds documents, 5 Philip Morris documents, and
1 Lorillard document totaling 70 pages to its collections.
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| 3/15/2005 |
| Tab-delimited Download Now Available; LTDL Adds New Documents to Collections |
LTDL users can now download bookbag contents in tab-delimited format, which facilitates importing records into
spreadsheet or database programs. Click the Tab-Delimited button in the bookbag to download the file; open with the desired
program such as Microsoft Excel or a database program.
On March 15th, 2005, the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library added 20,189 RJ Reynolds documents, 2,991 Philip Morris
documents, and 1 Tobacco Institute document totaling 138,675 pages to its collections.
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| 2/16/2005 |
| LTDL Adds RJ Reynolds & DATTA Documents to Collections |
This month, LTDL also features new popular documents about industry research into the "benefits of smoking." In
addition, the Library has added popular documents showcasing items from the collections related to tobacco product placement in movies.
On February 15th, 2005, the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library added 9,697 RJ Reynolds documents, 11 Philip Morris documents, and 1,593 DATTA
documents.
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