We have recently added thousands of new documents to the British American Tobacco Documents Archive (BATDA). As of September 18, 2007, BATDA now contains 6,545,399 pages in 1,415,146 documents - http://bat.library.ucsf.edu.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Tobacco Control Fellowships for 2008
The UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (CTCRE) invites applications for fellowships in policy relevant tobacco control research. Completed applications are due January 31, 2008, for fellowships beginning July 1, 2008.
Applicants may learn more about the Center, the fellowship program, and review the list of UCSF faculty and their research interests at: http://tobacco.ucsf.edu.
For more information or to request an application, contact:
Nathan Sinclair
Program Assistant
Phone: 415-476-0140
Fax: 415-514-9345
Email: nathan.sinclair(at)ucsf.edu
Completed applications should be sent to:
Pamela Ling, MD, MPH
Fellowship Program Director, CTCRE
UCSF Box 1390
530 Parnassus Ave., #366
San Francisco, CA 94143-1390
Monday, September 10, 2007
New Features and Fixes
Welcome to the new LTDL News & Announcements Blog:
We have switched to a blog format that not only allows comments on each post but also allows you to subscribe to updates by RSS feed or by email. We hope to use this blog to better inform users regarding library additions, features, site maintenance and workshops. Subscribe today using the "Subscribe to this Page" links on the right hand side.
Phrase Searches include stop words:
It is now possible to search the document text for an exact phrase even if it includes those commonly used words (“stop words”) such as “it”, “the”, “a” and “and” that formerly were excluded from searches. Please note - in order for this to function properly, make sure the phrase you are searching for is enclosed in quotes (“ “).
Every document in LTDL now available as a PDF:
All of the records now contain PDFs but please note - currently, about 5,000 of these are non-searchable PDFs, meaning that once you open the document as a PDF, you cannot search for terms within the PDF text itself. We are committed to making every PDF searchable so look for updates on this feature.
Faster Searches:
Changes to the LTDL index have resulted in searches roughly 3X faster than before!
Fuzzy Searching:
We have upgraded the fuzzy search feature which finds words that are "close" in spelling to the search term (i.e. “coumarin~” finds coumadin, coumerin, coumaric, etc. ) This is especially helpful when searching text that has been OCR’ed.
See the LTDL Search Help for more information on fuzzy searching.
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Bibliography Additions
14 new resources have been added to the UCSF Tobacco Documents Bibliography on the Galen Library website.
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