Today, the entire body of documents in the British American Tobacco Documents Archive (BATDA) was merged with the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, bringing the document count in LTDL to over 50 million pages in 9.7 million documents. You can now search for BATDA documents separately in LTDL (choose just the "British American Tobacco" collection on the search page) and in conjunction with the 13 other tobacco industry collections.
With this merge comes a few changes to be aware of:
1) The BATDA website is still up and online at http://bat.library.ucsf.edu only now when you conduct a search from BATDA, your results will be returned in LTDL.
2) In order to allow a uniform search across all collections in LTDL, a few of the field codes were changed in the BAT collection. Seasoned BATDA users who are used to using the two-letter field codes should consult the Expanded Field Definition section in BATDA to see what has changed.
We realize this merging of the two digital libraries may take some time to get used to but we hope this ultimately provides a better, more comprehensive and fruitful search experience for all researchers.
In addition to the BAT collection, a new collection of Smokeless Tobacco documents have been added to LTDL under the collection name "US Smokeless Tobacco". This collection contains 128,695 pages in 11,258 documents and we plan to post another large set of Smokeless Tobacco documents in the near future.
As always, please contact us with any questions, comments, and concerns - we appreciate all of the feedback and suggestions for the site.
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