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News and Announcements

Providing news, alerts and announcements from the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library

Monday, January 28, 2008

Additions to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography

Fourteen (14) new papers have been added to the UCSF Tobacco Documents Bibliography. This comprehensive bibliography lists scholarly articles, books and reports based on the research and analysis of tobacco industry documents. We update this bibliography quarterly - if you have an article you think should be included, please Contact Us.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Multimedia Collection podcast

We are pleased to announce a new podcast that provides an opportunity to view and listen to a selection of historically significant tobacco industry audio and video clips from the LTDL Multimedia Collection. This podcast is an introduction to the vast collection containing recordings of focus groups, internal corporate meetings, depositions of tobacco industry employees, government hearings, corporate communications, and commercials housed in UCSF and can be easily used in the classroom. Viewers can enjoy the podcast in its entirety (40 min) or watch three individual segments.

This public podcast is available to viewers and listeners all over the world and can be accessed from Podcasts@UCSF

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

New Documents Added!

We have rolled out another update of LTDL that includes many new industry documents as well as a new "User Preferences" feature.

Document Additions:
- 135,000+ Philip Morris documents
- 356 RJ Reynolds documents (259 from 2006 and 2007)
- 7900 Tobacco Institute documents from the Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Total added: 444,296 pages in 143,878 documents!

New Features:
User Preferences -
We have added a User Preferences feature to allow you to set display preferences for an entire session. These settings include: Long or short display, sort order, and the number of results per page. User preferences will apply to searches done in basic, advanced and expert search modes and will remain for the entire session or until you change the preferences. The User Preferences page can be found under the "PREFS" tab in the Search section.

Help Pages Have Moved -
In order to accommodate the new User Preferences feature and to consolidate all of our Help screens into one area, we have moved the Search Help pages. FAQs and the Search Help pages are now accessible from the top level Help button next to "About the Library"

Please let us know how these features are working for you. As always, we appreciate any comments and feedback!