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Thursday, November 5, 2009

More Videos Available for Viewing; New Documents Also Added

Over 175 videos, most from the British American Tobacco Company, were uploaded to the UCSF Tobacco Industry Videos Collection on the Internet Archive. A complete list can be found here. Many of them are interviews with smokers in Britain about smoking and stress and for a cross-cultural study of whether reading styles affect visual scanning behavior.

130 new documents were added to LTDL today. You can search for these documents by entering "ddu:20091105" without the quotation marks in the query box.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

New Documents and Videos Added

New documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today!

Included in this batch are:

  • 553 BAT videos - These videos come from the Guildford depository and include TV news reports from UK, Australia, Hong Kong and New Zealand, focus groups and personal interviews with smokers, internal presentations about new product development, as well as visual scanning behavior project tapes and films about BAT operations and philanthropic projects in Brazil, Panama, Kenya, Malaysia and Sri-Lanka. We have started to upload these videos for immediate viewing but if you find one that you want to see, please contact us and we can upload it for you.


  • 74,327 color advertisements from the Philip Morris advertising archive. These ads were previously displayed as black and white documents.


  • 2,967 Philip Morris documents previously stored on microfilm.


  • 1,638 documents from the Stakeholder Analysis special collection - these documents were acquired from the Tobacco Documents Online (TDO) Research Collection. The Research Collections are smaller collections of industry documents that were gathered by individuals and/or organizations during the course of specific research or litigation.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

New Research using the Tobacco Documents

New papers and articles have been added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography for the month of September. Read up on "Wartime tobacco promotion in the US military," "Smoking uptake and prevalence in Ghana," and the "Relationship between tobacco advertising and promotion and adolescent smoking behavior" among other topics.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

New Research Collections Added

103,412 documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today!

Included in this batch are:

Research Collections:


Phillip Morris documents previously stored on microfilm - 1,564

The
Research Collections were assembled by investigators studying one aspect of tobacco industry practices and were originally posted on tobaccodocuments.org.


    Monday, August 31, 2009

    15 New/Revised Papers Added to the Bibliography

    Read up! New research into advertising, cigarette design, marketing to young adults and more. 15 new or newly revised papers were added to the the Tobacco Documents Bibliography. Access this comprehensive guide on the UCSF Tobacco Control Archives site or through RefWorks/Refshare on our shared folder.

    Thursday, August 27, 2009

    New Research Collections and New Docs Added

    63,905 documents have been added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today!

    Included in this large batch are:

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    LTDL has a new collection of documents available to explore - the Research Collections. These are smaller collections of industry documents that were gathered by individuals and/or organizations during the course of specific research or litigation.

    We have acquired the following individual research collections from Tobacco Documents Online (TDO) and will be adding more collections in the near future:

    • Ness Motley Collection - 36,108 documents
    • Product Design - 9,550 documents
    • Potential Reduced Exposure Products (PREPs) - 909 documents
    • Industry-Provided Depositions - 2,249 documents

    Please access http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/about/about_research_collections.jsp for more information on these new collections.

    Friday, August 21, 2009

    Tobacco Control Research Fellowships at UCSF

    Applications are due by January 27, 2010, for fellowships beginning July 1, 2010.

    The fellowship supports two years of postdoctoral training in tobacco related research. Postdoctoral fellows will have exposure to diverse training including both didactic coursework and individualized mentoring to build a personalized research program. Fellows have come from an array of disciplines, including medicine, public health, nursing, economics, political science, law, sociology, psychology, and cell biology.

    We offer individual mentorship with UCSF faculty along with courses in tobacco specific topics, health policy, cancer control and prevention, grant and scientific writing skills, career development, interdisciplinary research, and biostatistics.

    Postdoctoral trainees will receive an annual salary commensurate with their experience, approximately $37,000-$51,000, according to the NIH stipend scale. Academic Background Required: Doctorate/Equivalent Degree.

    Applicants may learn more about the Center, the fellowship program, and review the list of UCSF faculty and their research interests at our website, tobacco.ucsf.edu.

    Please direct requests for information and applications to:
    Fellowship Assistant
    Phone: 415-476-0140
    Fax: 415-514-9345
    Tobacco.fellowship@ucsf.edu