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| 12/27/2006 |
| Tobacco Control Fellowship Positions at UCSF's Center for Tobacco Research and Education |
One and two-year fellowship positions are available in the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education,
University of California, San Francisco. The application deadline is January 31, 2007.
Fellows will be selected to begin the fellowship on July 1, 2007.
The Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education offers two separate research programs for
eligible scholars to learn to conduct policy-relevant research related to tobacco control:
- Under the first training program, the Center will train recent MD and/or Phd recipients at the postdoctoral level.
Trainees accepted into this program will receive an annual salary commensurate with their years of postdoctoral experience
(approximately $37,000-$51,000) according to the NIH stipend scale. These positions are supported by an "R25" training
grant from the National Institutes of Health.
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In the second training track, the Center will consider trainees at advanced (senior scholar) levels, on a limited basis.
Appointment categories and salary levels will depend on the qualifications of the scholar, and will be subject to
availability of funding from sources such as sabbatical salary from the scholar's home institution, faculty mentor's funding, or,
in exceptional cases, the aforementioned training grant.
Applicants may learn more about the Center, the fellowship program, and review the list of UCSF faculty and their
research interests at our website: http://tobacco.ucsf.edu/ .
Please direct requests for information and requests for applications to:
Ana Garay-Kong
Fellowship Coordinator
Phone: 415-476-0140
Fax: 415-514-9345
Email: ana.garay-kong@ucsf.edu
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| 10/06/2006 |
| US Judge Rules Against the Tobacco Companies in Landmark RICO Case |
On August 17, 2006, US District Judge Gladys Kessler found the major tobacco companies have
violated civil racketeering laws and defrauded the American people by lying for many years about the health risks
of smoking and their marketing practices towards minors.
The Final Opinion, Final Judgment and Order, and other summary reports in this civil lawsuit are available online in
the Policy, Legislation and Litigation section of the
UCSF Tobacco Control Archives.
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| 09/20/2006 |
| New Features for the Legacy Tobacco Document Library�s Full Text Development Site |
The UCSF Library is pleased to announce that as of Wednesday, September 20, 2006 the Legacy Tobacco
Document Library�s Full Text Development Site (FTD) will have four new features:
- Bookbag - Download and e-mail your search results. Bookbag holds up to 500 entries.
- Sort your search results by document date, the date a document was added to LTDL, or Bates number.
- Search History � Save a history of your searches made during your session.
- Wildcard Searches - Use * and ? to search for variations of a term.
In addition, the Bookbag download to EndNote has been modified to accommodate both an estimated date marker (est.) and user notes.
Access EndNote Help to update your tobacco document reference type.
The website will be unavailable for an undetermined (hopefully brief) amount of time between 10am and 12noon (PST) in order to
release these upgrades.
Please use the Contact Us form to let us know how these new improvements work for you.
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| 09/18/2006 |
| Tips for Finding Document Attachments |
While searching the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, users often encounter e-mail messages or other documents that
make reference to an attachment by name or by description. Access Finding Attachments for tips on locating those
seemingly elusive attachments.
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| 7/19/2006 |
The Legacy Foundation Honors UCSF Tobacco Researcher
Ruth E. Malone, RN, PhD |
Ruth E. Malone, a registered nurse and co-founder of the nursing group, the Nightingales, was honored at the 13th World Conference
on Tobacco or Health held in Washington, DC earlier this month. The prestigious Tobacco Industry Documents Awards recognize
individuals who use these documents for research, litigation and public educational purposes.
Access the full text of the UCSF Today
article: http://pub.ucsf.edu/today/cache/news/200607134.html
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| 6/26/2006 |
| UCSF Legacy Tobacco Documents Library Adds Multimedia Collection - Many Titles Viewable Online |
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Library - Center for Knowledge Management is
pleased to announce the latest addition to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL). LTDL currently holds more than
7 million tobacco industry documents related to advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research of
tobacco products. With this most recent addition, users of the LTDL website have access to
descriptive information on more than 5,000 tobacco industry video and audio tapes through the new Multimedia Collection.
Funded by a grant from the California Tobacco Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP),
project staff collected multimedia materials housed at the Minnesota Tobacco Documents Depository, added new
searchable fields, and enhanced existing information. The collection is organized so that one can limit a search just to
multimedia material and to specific types of multimedia. For example, the term 'genre' can be used to identify
types of multimedia such as corporate meetings, focus groups, hearings, or commercials, among other genre categories.
In addition to improving descriptive information, staff will preserve almost 700 tapes at UCSF for future generations.
Through a cooperative venture, many of the tapes are viewable at the
Internet Archive either through a search within LTDL or
directly through the Internet Archive site. By the end of the year all of the tapes acquired by UCSF will be
available online.
LTDL's Multimedia Collection will interest tobacco control activists, academic scholars researching tobacco
issues, public policy experts, filmmakers, journalists, and others concerned with corporate responsibility, multinational
corporations, tobacco industry history, public relations, advertising, television, marketing research, popular culture,
and mass media. For more information on the Multimedia Collection, new descriptive fields and how to access the audio/video materials,
please go to the Multimedia Collection page.
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| 4/27/2006 |
| Tobacco Control Fellowship Positions at UCSF's Center for Tobacco Research and Education |
We anticipate new training grant funding from the NIH to start in July 2006. As a result,
we now have a few additional fellowship spots available this year. Applications received by May 15, 2006 are preferred,
although the slots will remain open until filled.
One and 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 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 tobacco control
In addition, postgraduate researchers will:
- Attend Tobacco Control Policy Issues Course
- Attend Cancer Center/Tobacco Control Seminar, 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.
Applications received by May 15, 2006 are preferred, and the fellowship begins July 1, 2006.
Please direct requests for information and applications to:
Alison Rodrigues
Fellowship Coordinator
Phone: 415-476-0140
Fax: 415-514-9345
Email: alison.rodrigues@ucsf.edu
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| 4/3/2006 |
| New Output Style and Tobacco Control Archives (TCA) Filter for EndNote |
An important change to the official citation format for tobacco documents has prompted the
Library to revise the EndNote Tobacco Document Style (based on Vancouver). The editors of Tobacco Control no longer
require citations and references to include Bates numbers for documents with permanent BATDA or LTDL URLs.
For documents not found in BATDA or LTDL, the Bates number is still required.
View the new format for citing tobacco documents at the UCSF Library's Citation Format page.
To accommodate this change, as well as to fix a problem with downloading estimated dates, the
Library has released a new version of the TCA EndNote filter for tobacco documents and has simplified the steps necessary
to change the Tobacco Document Style. The new Tobacco Control Archives filter still downloads Bates numbers, as well
as access date and page count, for your records, but the updated Tobacco Document Style does not include these fields in
bibliographic references.
The new filter also fixes a problem which caused "est." (short for estimated date) to appear too frequently.
Estimated date notations are still downloaded for your records but the notation is no longer
included in the output style and resultant references. If you want to include any fields mentioned above, such as
Bates number, in references, read the instructions for adding items to the output style here.
To download the new TCA filter, follow the instructions here.
To change the output style, follow the directions here.
For complete instructions on setting up the new Tobacco Document output style and TCA filter for EndNote, click here.
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| 3/1/2006 |
| Document PDFs Now Searchable |
When reviewing search results in the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, users have always had the option of viewing documents in PDF
format. However, the PDFs were images only (essentially photographs of the original documents) and contained no searchable text, thus users could not search for words or phrases within the PDF.
As of March 1, 2006, virtually all LTDL image-only PDFs have been replaced with "searchable" PDFs (sPDFs), enabling users
to search for words or phrases within a document by using Adobe Reader's search function. Now users can quickly locate items of interest,
which can be especially helpful when reviewing longer documents.
Note that the sPDFs were created using optical character recognition (OCR) software, the accuracy of which depends upon the quality of
the original image. If the quality of the original document is poor (e.g., blurry, hand-written, pale), the OCR process may not identify every word,
and in some cases only a few words may be searchable.
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