New Papers for Tobacco Bibliography

Eleven (11) new papers have been added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography on the UCSF Library's Tobacco Control Archives site. This bibliography cites publications based on research and analysis of tobacco industry documents.

In addition to the TCA site, you can also access the bibliography on RefWorks at: http://www.refworks.com/refshare/?site=044531177916400000/RWWS6A586201/TobaccoDocumentsBibliography. The RefWorks version allows the user to sort and search the bibliography as well as create mini-bibliographies and lists to share with others.

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Pollay Advertising Collection Posted to LTDL

Richard W. Pollay is a past Curator of the History of Advertising Archives, University of British Columbia. He has written many articles for peer reviewed journals, US Surgeon General Reports and National Cancer Institute Monographs based upon his own research and access to corporate documents. A large portion of Dr. Pollay's 10,000+ collection of cigarette print advertising was processed and indexed by Roswell Park Cancer Institute and originally housed on the Tobacco Documents Online (TDO) site. TDO has graciously shared the images and metadata with LTDL.

The Pollay Advertising Collection currently contains 7,572 documents of mostly colored print advertisements created by the tobacco industry. More documents will be added as we receive them.
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In addition to the Pollay Advertising Collection, 10 new Philip Morris documents were added as well as 1101 new RJ Reynolds confidential document index records.

To find all of these new documents, search on the date the documents were added to the LTDL (June 11, 2009) - ddu:20090611

New CTR Documents and USSTC Audio Tapes Posted Today

A total of 28,634 new documents were posted to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today.
The breakdown is as follows:

• Council for Tobacco Research (CTR) - 28522 documents (from Tobacco Documents Online's Roswell Park Collection)
• US Smokeless Tobacco (USSTC) - 101 records of audio recordings (available through the UCSF Library's Archives and Special Collections)
• Philip Morris - 1 document
• RJ Reynolds - 10 documents (very large documents)

Take a look at these new documents by searching for all documents loaded onto LTDL on May 14, 2009 - ddu:20090514

**As of Thursday, May 14, 2009, LTDL contains 52,484,936 pages in 10,085,872 documents.

New USSTC Videos and More Bliley Docs for LTDL

114 U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company (USSTC) videos are now part of the LTDL Multimedia Collection.

USSTC is a leading manufacturer of smokeless tobacco products including Skoal and Copenhagen. The 114 new videos are from 1970-1980s and include numerous commercials featuring Charlie Daniels – country and southern rock musician, Carlton Fisk – baseball hall of famer, and Shep Messing – soccer goalkeeper. USSTC was an active sponsor of American football players, NASCAR, the Skoal Bandit team, Winston Cup winner Harry Gant and the yearly Copenhagen-Skoal Rodeo Superstars Championship.

To find these videos on LTDL, search the Multimedia collection for “origcn: us smokeless tobacco". If a particular video is available for immediate viewing on Internet Archive, the record will link to the video under "Access Now at Internet Archive"

Highlights from this collection can also be seen on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ltdlmultimedia. These clips have proven very popular with more than 1,500 viewings since February 25, 2009.


New Documents added from the TDO site:

• American Tobacco - 76 documents, 2275 pages
• Bliley Brown & Williamson - 46 documents, 1947 pages
• Bliley Lorillard - 3 documents, 106 pages
• Bliley Philip Morris - 37 documents, 447 pages
• Bliley RJ Reynolds - 7644 documents, 33379 pages
• Philip Morris - 1 document, 56 pages
• RJ Reynolds - 13 documents, 452 pages

Total number of documents added (including USSTC videos) = 8,749

To find these newly added documents, search on the date they were posted to LTDL - <ddu:20090423>

**As of Thursday, April 23, 2009, LTDL contains 52,370,115 pages in 10,057,259 documents.

**Many thanks to TDO for sharing documents with us and allowing us to work towards completing our holdings in certain collections and special collections!

Fellowships in Tobacco Control Research at UCSF

Applications for Fellowships in Tobacco Control Research at UCSF are due May 6, 2009, for fellowships beginning July 1, 2009.

The purpose of the fellowship is to attract individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds in medical, biological, social, behavioral, and policy sciences to develop a new generation of academic leaders in tobacco control. Upon completion of training, fellows will be well positioned to be active participants in crucial policy debates about the future development and implementation of tobacco control interventions.

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

Please direct requests for information and applications to:

Fellowship Assistant
Phone: 415-476-0140
Fax: 415-514-9345
Tobacco(dot)fellowship(at)ucsf.edu

15,000+ New Documents Added to LTDL

We've been hard at work adding new tobacco industry documents to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library!

These additions include documents pulled down from the industry sites; "Bliley" and industry documents from Tobacco Documents Online (TDO); BAT documents from the Guildford Depository; and over 2000 Philip Morris Engineering Department documents that had previously been in storage on microfilm.

The breakdown of additions is as follows:

• Brown & Williamson - 691 documents; 7315 pages
• British American Tobacco - 12,443 documents; 31,205 pages
• Philip Morris microfilm - 2004 documents; 92,576 pages
• RJ Reynolds - 75 documents; 71,004 pages
• Tobacco Institute - 131 documents; 426 pages
  Total: 15,344 documents; 202,526 pages

To find these newly added documents, search on the date they were posted to LTDL - <ddu:20090402>

**As of Thursday, April 2, 2009, LTDL contains 52,327,409 pages in 10,056,289 documents.**

Many thanks to TDO for sharing documents with us and allowing us to work towards completing our holdings in certain collections and special collections!