New DOJ Collection and New Features

An updated version of LTDL has been put into production today with a new special collection as well as help for RefWorks and a new format for PDF links:

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library has added the "US Department of Justice" collection:
The United States Department of Justice collection is a special collection of documents that defendants in United States v. Philip
Morris, et al. initially withheld from production to the United States on grounds of privilege or other protection but were since deemed releasable.
This collection includes both voluntarily-produced documents and documents produced subject to court compulsion.

To search this special collection, do a fielded search for the term justice in the special collection field - speccoll:justice

For more information on this collection please consult our page - About the Collections.

Help for RefWorks and tobacco documents:
RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management application similar to EndNote. Because it is web-based, you are able to access
and share your RefWorks personal citation database from anywhere via the Internet -- on campus, at home (via VPN), or abroad.

The Library at UCSF has acquired a site license for RefWorks and an account is free for UCSF students, faculty, and staff.
We have created a set of full instructions on how to format tobacco document citations using RefWorks - please access the RefWorks help page for more information.

Permanent link to PDF of a document:
Users have found it beneficial to bookmark the actual PDF of a document (not just the pURL record) so we have created a permanent link format for PDFs. Notice the notation /pdf follows after the original pURL format --
ex: "http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/vpq85d00/pdf"

This should help to standardize the links and guard against any broken links to documents.

Document Additions:
In addition to a new release of LTDL, we have added over 13,000 new documents to the British American Tobacco Documents Archive (BATDA) bringing the total to 6,642,841 pages in 1,428,269 documents.

Please contact us with any questions or problems - we always look forward to hearing about how these new collections and features work for you!