BATDA merging with LTDL

We are pleased to announce that later this week the British American Tobacco Document Archive (BATDA) will be merged with the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. Doing so will allow you to search all the US documents at the same time that you search the BAT documents.

We wanted to alert BATDA users to these changes so you’re not surprised when you use the site.

You will still be able to search the BAT documents through the current site, (http://bat.library.ucsf.edu) or through the LTDL site (http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu.) Regardless of which portal you use to do the search, the results will be returned from the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL).

You will be able to retrieve any documents that you’ve bookmarked using the bat.library.ucsf.edu URLs. In addition, all of BATDA’s functionality remains, regardless of which portal is used to search the BAT documents.

Besides having results returned from LTDL, BATDA users may notice one other change: some of the field codes used in advanced searching were modified to a uniform standard shared by LTDL.

We again thank all of our partners and supporters in the Guildford Archiving Project and BATDA Consortium: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Mayo Clinic, Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, Ministry of the Attorney General of British Columbia, World Health Organization, ASH New Zealand, British Medical Association, Department of Health (UK), International Union Against Tuberculosis & Lung Disease, The Nuffield Trust, Royal College of General Practitioners, Royal College of Midwives, Royal College of Physicians, UK Faculty of Public Health Medicine, World Health Organization, Flight Attendants Medical Research Institute (FAMRI), Wellcome Trust, Health Canada, Cancer Research UK, National Cancer Institute, American Legacy Foundation, American Heart Association, Rockefeller Foundation, American Heart Association, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the University of California, San Francisco Academic Senate. All these partners will be recognized on both sites.

We encourage you to sign up for email notices of future changes at http://blog.legacy.library.ucsf.edu/.