LTDL News and Announcements

Putting the Tobacco Industry Words to Work Webinar

2009-11-17T09:30:00.001-08:00

Legacy & the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education

invite you to participate in a webinar

Thursday, December 10, 2009
3:00 - 4:30 pm (Eastern Time)

Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall in a meeting of tobacco industry advertising executives? Or wondered how you could use their powerful words to give teens and adults reasons why not to smoke? Well now here is your chance.

The purpose of the webinar is to provide a basic overview of the tobacco industry documents, how to access them, and how to incorporate the documents into your work. Our speakers will provide examples of ways in which they have used the documents for research and advocacy purposes to promote tobacco-free communities.

Featured speakers:
Kim Klausner, Industry Documents Digital Libraries Manager, UCSF Library
Dr. Elisa Tong, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
Linda Early Brown, Project Director, Communities of Color Network

The webinar is FREE. Please tell colleagues who may be interested in participating.

Please register by sending your complete contact information to Kristen Tertzakian at Legacy at ktertzakian@legacyforhealth.org or 202-454-5930 by December 1st.

Upon registration, you will receive callinformation and other materials.

New Documents and Videos Added

2009-10-06T10:06:00.000-07:00

New documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today!

Included in this batch are:

553 BAT videos - These videos come from the Guildford depository and include TV news reports from UK, Australia, Hong Kong and New Zealand, focus groups and personal interviews with smokers, internal presentations about new product development, as well as visual scanning behavior project tapes and films about BAT operations and philanthropic projects in Brazil, Panama, Kenya, Malaysia and Sri-Lanka. We have started to upload these videos for immediate viewing but if you find one that you want to see, please contact us and we can upload it for you.

74,327 color advertisements from the Philip Morris advertising archive. These ads were previously displayed as black and white documents.

2,967 Philip Morris documents previously stored on microfilm.

1,638 documents from the Stakeholder Analysis special collection - these documents were acquired from the Tobacco Documents Online (TDO) Research Collection. The Research Collections are smaller collections of industry documents that were gathered by individuals and/or organizations during the course of specific research or litigation.

New Research using the Tobacco Documents

2009-09-29T09:37:00.001-07:00

New papers and articles have been added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography for the month of September. Read up on "Wartime tobacco promotion in the US military," "Smoking uptake and prevalence in Ghana," and the "Relationship between tobacco advertising and promotion and adolescent smoking behavior" among other topics.

New Research Collections Added

2009-09-17T16:22:00.000-07:00

103,412 documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today!

Included in this batch are:

Research Collections:

Mayo Clinic - 59,204

Tobacco Industry Monitoring Project – 5,247

American Health Foundation – 8,680

Filter Ventilation & Design - 668

FTC Joe Camel Complaint - 519

State and Local Strategies – 1,611

Marketing to Women – 3,017

Marketing to Youth – 5,289

Tobacco Products Liability Project – 17,613

Phillip Morris documents previously stored on microfilm - 1,564

The Research Collections were assembled by investigators studying one aspect of tobacco industry practices and were originally posted on tobaccodocuments.org.

15 New/Revised Papers Added to the Bibliography

2009-08-31T09:40:00.000-07:00

Read up! New research into advertising, cigarette design, marketing to young adults and more. 15 new or newly revised papers were added to the the Tobacco Documents Bibliography. Access this comprehensive guide on the UCSF Tobacco Control Archives site or through RefWorks/Refshare on our shared folder.

New Research Collections and New Docs Added

2009-08-27T10:24:00.000-07:00

63,905 documents have been added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today!

Included in this large batch are:

1257 US Smokeless Tobacco documents - 51 of the USSTC documents come from the 2007 USSTC Wisconsin class action settlement case: FEUERABEND, v. UST, INC., et al., 02-CV-7124 (Wisconsin). This case was a retailing and price fixing class action suit.

9,051 exhibit documents in DATTA from the Department of Justice special collection - these documents were acquired from the Tobacco Documents Online (TDO) DATTA collection.

486 Philip Morris documents previously stored on microfilm

3870 Pollay Advertising Collection documents

425 American Tobacco documents from the Bliley special collection - these documents were acquired from the Tobacco Documents Online (TDO) Bliley Collection.

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LTDL has a new collection of documents available to explore - the Research Collections. These are smaller collections of industry documents that were gathered by individuals and/or organizations during the course of specific research or litigation.

We have acquired the following individual research collections from Tobacco Documents Online (TDO) and will be adding more collections in the near future:

Ness Motley Collection - 36,108 documents
Product Design - 9,550 documents
Potential Reduced Exposure Products (PREPs) - 909 documents
Industry-Provided Depositions - 2,249 documents

Please access http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/about/about_research_collections.jsp for more information on these new collections.

Tobacco Control Research Fellowships at UCSF

2009-08-21T13:14:00.000-07:00

Applications are due by January 27, 2010, for fellowships beginning July 1, 2010.

The fellowship supports two years of postdoctoral training in tobacco related research. Postdoctoral fellows will have exposure to diverse training including both didactic coursework and individualized mentoring to build a personalized research program. Fellows have come from an array of disciplines, including medicine, public health, nursing, economics, political science, law, sociology, psychology, and cell biology.

We offer individual mentorship with UCSF faculty along with courses in tobacco specific topics, health policy, cancer control and prevention, grant and scientific writing skills, career development, interdisciplinary research, and biostatistics.

Postdoctoral trainees will receive an annual salary commensurate with their experience, approximately $37,000-$51,000, according to the NIH stipend scale. Academic Background Required: Doctorate/Equivalent Degree.

Applicants may learn more about the Center, the fellowship program, and review the list of UCSF faculty and their research interests at our website, tobacco.ucsf.edu.

Please direct requests for information and applications to:
Fellowship Assistant
Phone: 415-476-0140
Fax: 415-514-9345
Tobacco.fellowship@ucsf.edu

New DATTA, PM and USSTC Documents

2009-08-06T12:48:00.000-07:00

We've added 6094 new documents to LTDL today!

The breakdown of additions by collection:

Philip Morris - 2155 documents from their Engineering and Leaf Department files

British American Tobacco - 462 documents

US Smokeless Tobacco Co - 1193 documents

DATTA - 2284 docs - acquired from Tobacco Documents Online (TDO) and includes testimony from the 1994 OSHA hearings on a proposed standard for indoor air quality.

200,000+ New Documents Added Today

2009-07-16T13:55:00.000-07:00

We've added a large batch of new documents to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today!

These additions include over 200,000 Tobacco Institute documents from Tobacco Documents Online (TDO) which were indexed and processed by Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI); new US Smokeless Tobacco Company documents; and Philip Morris Engineering and Leaf Department documents that had previously been in storage on microfilm.

The breakdown of additions is as follows:

Lorillard - 93 documents

Philip Morris - 1123 documents

RJ Reynolds - 2491 documents

Tobacco Institute - 207,825 documents

USSTCo - 478 documents

Total: 212,010 documents

To find these newly added documents, search on the date they were posted to LTDL - ddu:20090716

**As of Thursday, July 16, 2009, LTDL contains 53,689,389 pages in 10,304,061 documents.

** Many thanks to TDO for sharing documents with us and allowing us to work towards completing our holdings in certain collections and special collections!

New Papers for Tobacco Bibliography

2009-07-07T15:03:00.000-07:00

Eleven (11) new papers have been added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography on the UCSF Library's Tobacco Control Archives site. This bibliography cites publications based on research and analysis of tobacco industry documents.

In addition to the TCA site, you can also access the bibliography on RefWorks at: http://www.refworks.com/refshare/?site=044531177916400000/RWWS6A586201/TobaccoDocumentsBibliography. The RefWorks version allows the user to sort and search the bibliography as well as create mini-bibliographies and lists to share with others.

Follow LTDL on Twitter

2009-06-19T09:22:00.000-07:00

LTDL is on Twitter as ltdlnews - Follow us and receive up-to-the-minute posts regarding the tobacco documents, workshops, new multimedia uploads, tobacco-related papers and other buzz.

Pollay Advertising Collection Posted to LTDL

2009-06-11T15:56:00.000-07:00

Richard W. Pollay is a past Curator of the History of Advertising Archives, University of British Columbia. He has written many articles for peer reviewed journals, US Surgeon General Reports and National Cancer Institute Monographs based upon his own research and access to corporate documents. A large portion of Dr. Pollay's 10,000+ collection of cigarette print advertising was processed and indexed by Roswell Park Cancer Institute and originally housed on the Tobacco Documents Online (TDO) site. TDO has graciously shared the images and metadata with LTDL.

The Pollay Advertising Collection currently contains 7,572 documents of mostly colored print advertisements created by the tobacco industry. More documents will be added as we receive them.
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In addition to the Pollay Advertising Collection, 10 new Philip Morris documents were added as well as 1101 new RJ Reynolds confidential document index records.

To find all of these new documents, search on the date the documents were added to the LTDL (June 11, 2009) - ddu:20090611

New CTR Documents and USSTC Audio Tapes Posted Today

2009-05-14T16:04:00.000-07:00

A total of 28,634 new documents were posted to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today.
The breakdown is as follows:

Council for Tobacco Research (CTR) - 28522 documents (from Tobacco Documents Online's Roswell Park Collection)
US Smokeless Tobacco (USSTC) - 101 records of audio recordings (available through the UCSF Library's Archives and Special Collections)
Philip Morris - 1 document
RJ Reynolds - 10 documents (very large documents)

Take a look at these new documents by searching for all documents loaded onto LTDL on May 14, 2009 - ddu:20090514

**As of Thursday, May 14, 2009, LTDL contains 52,484,936 pages in 10,085,872 documents.

New USSTC Videos and More Bliley Docs for LTDL

2009-04-23T14:07:00.000-07:00

114 U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company (USSTC) videos are now part of the LTDL Multimedia Collection.

USSTC is a leading manufacturer of smokeless tobacco products including Skoal and Copenhagen. The 114 new videos are from 1970-1980s and include numerous commercials featuring Charlie Daniels – country and southern rock musician, Carlton Fisk – baseball hall of famer, and Shep Messing – soccer goalkeeper. USSTC was an active sponsor of American football players, NASCAR, the Skoal Bandit team, Winston Cup winner Harry Gant and the yearly Copenhagen-Skoal Rodeo Superstars Championship.

To find these videos on LTDL, search the Multimedia collection for “origcn: us smokeless tobacco". If a particular video is available for immediate viewing on Internet Archive, the record will link to the video under "Access Now at Internet Archive"

Highlights from this collection can also be seen on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ltdlmultimedia. These clips have proven very popular with more than 1,500 viewings since February 25, 2009.

New Documents added from the TDO site:

American Tobacco - 76 documents, 2275 pages
Bliley Brown & Williamson - 46 documents, 1947 pages
Bliley Lorillard - 3 documents, 106 pages
Bliley Philip Morris - 37 documents, 447 pages
Bliley RJ Reynolds - 7644 documents, 33379 pages
Philip Morris - 1 document, 56 pages
RJ Reynolds - 13 documents, 452 pages

Total number of documents added (including USSTC videos) = 8,749

To find these newly added documents, search on the date they were posted to LTDL - <ddu:20090423>

**As of Thursday, April 23, 2009, LTDL contains 52,370,115 pages in 10,057,259 documents.

**Many thanks to TDO for sharing documents with us and allowing us to work towards completing our holdings in certain collections and special collections!

Fellowships in Tobacco Control Research at UCSF

2009-04-15T10:34:00.000-07:00

Applications for Fellowships in Tobacco Control Research at UCSF are due May 6, 2009, for fellowships beginning July 1, 2009.

The purpose of the fellowship is to attract individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds in medical, biological, social, behavioral, and policy sciences to develop a new generation of academic leaders in tobacco control. Upon completion of training, fellows will be well positioned to be active participants in crucial policy debates about the future development and implementation of tobacco control interventions.

The fellowship supports two years of postdoctoral training in tobacco related research. Postdoctoral fellows will have exposure to diverse training including both didactic coursework and individualized mentoring to build a personalized research program. Fellows have come from an array of disciplines, including medicine, public health, nursing, economics, political science, law, sociology, psychology, and cell biology.

We offer individual mentorship with UCSF faculty along with courses in tobacco specific topics, health policy, cancer control and prevention, grant and scientific writing skills, career development, interdisciplinary research, and biostatistics.

Postdoctoral trainees will receive an annual salary commensurate with their experience, approximately $37,000-$51,000, according to the NIH stipend scale. Applicants may learn more about the Center, the fellowship program, and review the list of UCSF faculty and their research interests at the CTCRC website, tobacco.ucsf.edu.

Please direct requests for information and applications to:

Fellowship Assistant
Phone: 415-476-0140
Fax: 415-514-9345
Tobacco(dot)fellowship(at)ucsf.edu

15,000+ New Documents Added to LTDL

2009-04-02T15:29:00.000-07:00

We've been hard at work adding new tobacco industry documents to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library!

These additions include documents pulled down from the industry sites; "Bliley" and industry documents from Tobacco Documents Online (TDO); BAT documents from the Guildford Depository; and over 2000 Philip Morris Engineering Department documents that had previously been in storage on microfilm.

The breakdown of additions is as follows:

Brown & Williamson - 691 documents; 7315 pages
British American Tobacco - 12,443 documents; 31,205 pages
Philip Morris microfilm - 2004 documents; 92,576 pages
RJ Reynolds - 75 documents; 71,004 pages
Tobacco Institute - 131 documents; 426 pages
Total: 15,344 documents; 202,526 pages

To find these newly added documents, search on the date they were posted to LTDL - <ddu:20090402>

**As of Thursday, April 2, 2009, LTDL contains 52,327,409 pages in 10,056,289 documents.**

Many thanks to TDO for sharing documents with us and allowing us to work towards completing our holdings in certain collections and special collections!

Video Short of Students Searching LTDL

2009-03-30T08:46:00.000-07:00

Tar Wars 4 - An Epic Adventure
James Valastro, of memeFILMS, an organization dedicated to youth and media-literacy, has created another great short video project combining the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library and a team of students at Woodstock Middle School in Vermont.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4800165632310496231

In this 6 minute comedy, Woodstock students search for and discover tobacco industry documents outlining product placement tactics and marketing to youth. When the tobacco industry discovers the teens are conducting these searches, the battle begins and the light sabers come out!

838 New Documents Posted to LTDL

2009-03-05T15:21:00.000-08:00

The following new documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today, March 5, 2009:

R.J. Reynolds: 71 documents, 191,456 pages (very large documents)
Philip Morris: 478 documents, 5,482 pages (from Leslie Grisham v. Philip Morris Incorporated, et al.)
Multimedia: 290 resources from RJ Reynolds

Total: 838 documents, 197,263 pages.

To find these new documents, conduct a search on the date they were added to LTDL (in "yyyymmdd" format) = ddu:20090305

As of today, LTDL contains 52,124,883 pages in 10,040,945 documents.

Register for the Annual Tobacco Documents Workshop

2009-03-02T10:42:00.000-08:00

Annual Tobacco Documents Workshop:
Putting the Tobacco Industry's Words to Work for You

The University of California, San Francisco Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, announces its one-day workshop on using tobacco industry documents for advocacy.

The workshop will cover:

introduction to tobacco industry documents databases, including the multimedia database
hands-on practice searching and extracting key industry documents under the supervision of expert documents researchers
examples of ways in which the documents can be of use to promote tobacco-free communities
opportunities to network and brainstorm with top documents researchers and other advocates.

Place: UCSF Library, 530 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143
Date: Saturday, May 9, 2009
Time: 10:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Cost: $25 registration fee to reserve your place, refundable upon completion of the workshop.

For more information and to register for the workshop, please contact:
Jenni Alexander, Jenni.Alexander@ucsf.edu or 415 502 6341.

New Formats for the Tobacco Documents Bibliography

2009-02-18T11:32:00.000-08:00

The new and improved UCSF Library website is up and running! Stop by and take a look at the new Tobacco Control Archives section and let us know what you think.

In addition to a new and streamlined format, we now have 2 ways for users to view the ever-growing Tobacco Documents Bibliography:

1) The Tobacco Documents Bibliography page on the UCSF Library Web Site now has a section titled "Newly Added" - this eliminates the need for scrolling through the bibliography to find recent additions.

2) The Tobacco Documents Bibliography is now also available through RefShare - a feature of RefWorks which allows sharing of references online. Once in the bibliography database, users can export selected references, sort by a variety of fields, print references, create a bibliography of selected papers, and subscribe to an RSS feed of additions to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography - this means anytime we add new references you will automatically be notified and sent those citations (up to 20). (You do not need to have a subscription to RefWorks to access this shared bibliography.)
The bibliography on RefShare is at: http://www.refworks.com/refshare/?site=044531177916400000/RWWS6A586201/TobaccoDocumentsBibliography

New Documents Added To LTDL

2009-02-13T08:56:00.000-08:00

345 new industry documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library on Thursday, February 12, 2009:

RJ Reynolds - 21 documents, 70,879 pages (yes, very large documents!)
Philip Morris - 46 documents, 1,662 pages
American Tobacco - 278 documents, 2,702 pages

To find these new documents, perform a search by the date the documents were loaded onto LTDL: ddu:20090212

New Multimedia on Internet Archive

2009-02-03T11:19:00.000-08:00

The UCSF Tobacco Industry Video and Tobacco Industry Audio Collections have reached a milestone! We currently have 1000 items (890 videos and 110 audio recordings) on Internet Archive available for viewing and downloading.

Listen to a recording of a 2002 R.J. Reynolds presentation at the Consumer Analyst Group of New York conference or watch a Philip Morris anti-smoking infomercial directed at parents and children.

You can also browse the collections by video keywords and audio keywords.

UCSF Tobacco Control Symposium - February 20th

2009-01-15T16:22:00.000-08:00

The UCSF Tobacco Control Symposium and Poster Session entitled "It's About a Billion Lives" will take place at UC San Francisco on Friday, February 20, 2009 from 8am to 12:30pm. Put on by the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (CTCRE), the symposium will feature speakers from the American Heart Association, the CTCRE, and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, to name a few. Please contact Jenni Alexander at 415-502-6341 for more information.

New Privileged Document Records Added

2009-01-08T14:50:00.000-08:00

Today, January 8th, we added a total of 78,380 new documents to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. The bulk of the new additions are records of British American Tobacco (BAT) and Philip Morris documents that were withheld from public view under claims of privilege - known in LTDL as "privileged documents". With privileged documents, there is no document image but there is an index record with detailed information about the document.

The breakdown of new documents is as follows:

70,527 BAT privileged document records
7,794 Philip Morris privileged document records
59 RJ Reynolds documents

To find these additions, search for documents added to the site on Jan 8, 2009 = ddu:20090108

And finally, as a companion to the new BAT privileged document records, we have posted the entire BAT glossary of names: http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/glossaries/bat_gloss_a.jsp