Bookmark and Share Resources

LTDL rolled out some new features today that will make viewing, saving and sharing documents even easier:

We have added a "Bookmark" button to the homepage, the multimedia collection page, and every document PDF page. Clicking on this button allows you to save the page/document you are viewing to your Facebook, Del.icio.us, Digg, Google Bookmarks and Furl accounts (to name just a few) and share it with others.

When you open a document as a PDF you will notice, in addition to the "Bookmark" button, new functionality at the top of the document above the Adobe toolbar...



From the PDF you are now able to navigate to the Next/Previous Bates numbers, add the document to your bookbag, and go directly to the pURL page with the permanent bookmark link.

As always, we need your comments and feedback - Please let us know how these features are working for you.

5th Annual Tobacco Documents Workshop

PUTTING THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY’S WORDS TO WORK FOR YOU

Tobacco Control Advocacy and Corporate Accountability Event: Register Now!

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

The workshop will cover:
introduction to tobacco industry documents databases; 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 used to promote tobacco-free communities; and opportunities to network and brainstorm with top documents researchers and other advocates.

Featuring:
• Carol McGruder, the 2007 recipient of the American Legacy Foundation Community Activist Award

• Social/Networking hour hosted by Stanton Glantz, Professor of Medicine and Director of the CTCRE

• Jono Polansky, owner of Onbeyond LLC, a company directing empowering “Campaigns that Change Things.”

• Friday Night Live free special pre-workshop, “How to Make Changes in Public Policy,” with attorney/policy expert Richard Barnes.

Cost: $25 registration fee to reserve your place, refundable upon completion of the workshop. Deadline is April 16th. Registration is on first come, first served basis and space is limited to 40 participants. A California cuisine lunch and resource materials will be provided. The locations are ADA accessible.

Date: Saturday, May 17, 2008
Time: 10:15 am to 5:30 pm
Place: University of California, San Francisco, Kalmanovitz Library
530 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, California

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

WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic

The World Health Organization (WHO) has just released their "Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008 - The MPOWER package."

This landmark report presents the first comprehensive worldwide analysis of tobacco use and control efforts and outlines the "MPOWER" package, a set of six key tobacco control measures that reflect and build on the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

Among the many key findings, the report documents the tobacco epidemic's shift to the developing world, where 80% of the annual tobacco-related deaths are expected to occur. According to the report, this shift results from a global tobacco industry strategy to target young people and adults in the developing world, ensuring that millions of people become fatally addicted every year.

The report confirms that the global tobacco epidemic is one of the greatest public health threats of modern times but it is entirely preventable - the means to curb the epidemic are clear and within reach.

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.

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

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!

CTCRE Symposium in February

Mark your calendars!

The Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (CTCRE) at UCSF is pleased to host the symposium and poster session:

It’s About a Billion Lives:
Advances in Tobacco Control
Celebrating Five Years of Tobacco Research and Education at UCSF
Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 8:00A - 12:00P
505 Parnassus Ave., UCSF, Health Sciences West, Room 303

Presentations include:

Social and Economic Determinants of Smoking in Rich and Poor Countries: Evidence for Reverse Health Disparities?
Elmer E. Huerta, MD, MPH
President, American Cancer Society and Director, Cancer Preventorium at the Washington Cancer Institute at Washington Hospital Center

Unselling Smokes: Reversing Tobacco Marketing Strategies
Pamela M. Ling, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Industry Efforts to Undermine the World Bank and WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Hadii M. Mamudu, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow

The symposium will also have a poster session featuring work that is not included in the oral presentations.

For information or to present a poster, contact Jenni Alexander at 415-502-6341 or jenni.alexander(at)ucsf.edu.

"Smoke this Book"

Paul Collins wrote a fascinating essay for the December 2nd issue of the New York Times Sunday Book Review which explores the 1970's practice of binding advertisements directly into the center of paperback books.

According to the author, "The bulk of paperback advertising came from tobacco companies, which were looking for new places to push their products after a federal ban on cigarette advertising on television and radio passed in 1969."

Collins used LTDL to follow the paper trail of who was behind this practice, how much money was involved in this type of marketing, and who reaped the benefits.

Read the full New York Times essay.

For further information and a timeline of the original marketing studies, print run orders, and customer complaints (with links to LTDL documents), access Paul Collins' blog, Weekend Stubble

We've Reached 8 Million Documents!

We released a new version of LTDL today which contains document additions and new features. The following additions bring the total to 8,006,384 documents!

Document Additions

-103,494 new Philip Morris documents
-18,040 new Tobacco Institute documents provided by Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI). Please note some of the document dates in the metadata may be inaccurate.
-593 new DATTA transcripts

New Features

Next/previous Bates:
Now, when you view a document's record (either from the pURL page or the search results), you will notice arrows before and after the document's bates number(s). Clicking on the arrows allows you to “page” to the previous or next Bates number in that collection.

For those already familiar with this feature in BATDA, this is useful for exploring the documents that surround a particular document or may have been attached at one time. Please note, Bates numbers are only valid within a collection - for instance, the very last bates number in the Philip Morris collection would not have a "next" bates.

E-mailing Bookbag:
Users are now able to email their bookbag to more than one email address.
To do this, Enter 2 or more email addresses in the "To" field, separated by commas.

Tobacco Advertising Exhibit at UCSF

The University of California, San Francisco’s Library and Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education are hosting “Not a Cough in a Carload: Images from the Tobacco Industry’s Campaign to Hide the Hazards of Smoking.” This exhibit of historic cigarette advertising and promotional items was curated by Laurie Jackler and Robert Jackler and Robert Proctor, two Stanford University experts on the tobacco industry’s marketing of their disease-causing products.

The exhibit shows --principally through advertising images-- how, between the late 1920s and the early 1950s, tobacco companies used deceptive and often patently false claims in an effort to reassure the public of the safety of their products. Images of physicians were frequently used to sell cigarettes: Doctors were depicted as satisfied and enthusiastic partakers of the smoking habit. Images of medical men (and a few token women) appeared under soothing reassurances of the safety of smoking. Liberal use was also made of pseudo-scientific medical reports and surveys.

The exhibit will run through February 29 at the UCSF Library, 530 Parnassus Avenue, Fifth Floor, San Francisco. The Library is open M-Th 7:45 AM – Midnight; Fri 7:45 AM - 8:00 PM; Sat 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM; and Sun 10:00 AM - Midnight

An online version of the exhibit can be seen at http://tobacco.stanford.edu

Documents Added, New Features and Fixes

An updated version of LTDL was released today containing new documents as well as some new features and fixes.

Additions to the UCSF Tobacco Industry Videos Collection at Internet Archive:
Twenty seven (27) tapes from the Roswell Park Cancer Institute collection, which contains videos from the Tobacco Institute and Council for Tobacco Research, have been uploaded to the UCSF Tobacco Industry Videos collection on Internet Archive (IA). These are available for immediate viewing or downloading. To find these available videos, search LTDL for records that have “RPCI” in the “special collection” field and “IA” in the “access” field (Example - speccoll:rpci access:IA)

The UCSF Tobacco Industry Videos collection now contains more than 500 items. If you have questions or need additional information please contact Polina Ilieva, Project Archivist at (415) 476-1024 or by e-mail - polina.ilieva(at)library.ucsf.edu


Document Additions to LTDL:
-219,906 new Philip Morris documents have been added to LTDL. The vast majority of these are from Barbara Schwab, et al. v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al.

-2164 RJ Reynolds documents have also been added.


New Popular Documents section: California's Tobacco Propositions
The UCSF Library's Tobacco Control Archives previously contained a selected documents collection known as the "California Documents from the State of Minnesota Depository." This special collection has been has been modified and moved to the Popular Documents section of the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library.

A companion to "Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles" by Stan Glantz and Edith Balbach, this research collection provides insight into industry plans to fight local smoking initiatives, weaken enforcement of and support for California's 1995 smoke-free workplace legislation, and undermine California's tobacco control program.

Dates are more "readable" in document records:
While the date fields in each document are still in the YYYMMDD format, we have added an additional format of "Month Day, Year" (for example, October 15, 2000) for each date field where there is a full date available. We hope this will help users scan the results when looking for documents with specific dates.

Users are now able to exclude "file folders" from a search:
This exclusion is done by default in the Basic and Advanced Search screens. In the Expert Search screen, users will now have a check box to "exclude folders". This exclusion only applies to documents that have "folder" or "tab" in the Document Type (dt:) field and are 1 page in length. If you want to include folders in your search, simply uncheck the box.

MSA Collection choice:
In the collections box on the search screens, users could previously choose "all", to search all collections, or "none" to clear the boxes for individual selection. Users now have the option to choose “MSA” in all three search screens. This will select just the seven Master Settlement collections (PM, RJR, Lorillard, B&W, AT, TI and CTR).

As always, we value your input on these new features and fixes! Please contact us with any feedback, problems, or praises.

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!

Tobacco Control Fellowships for 2008

The UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (CTCRE) invites applications for fellowships in policy relevant tobacco control research. Completed applications are due January 31, 2008, for fellowships beginning July 1, 2008.

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

For more information or to request an application, contact:
Nathan Sinclair
Program Assistant
Phone: 415-476-0140
Fax: 415-514-9345
Email: nathan.sinclair(at)ucsf.edu

Completed applications should be sent to:
Pamela Ling, MD, MPH
Fellowship Program Director, CTCRE
UCSF Box 1390
530 Parnassus Ave., #366
San Francisco, CA 94143-1390

New Features and Fixes

Welcome to the new LTDL News & Announcements Blog:
We have switched to a blog format that not only allows comments on each post but also allows you to subscribe to updates by RSS feed or by email. We hope to use this blog to better inform users regarding library additions, features, site maintenance and workshops. Subscribe today using the "Subscribe to this Page" links on the right hand side.

Phrase Searches include stop words:
It is now possible to search the document text for an exact phrase even if it includes those commonly used words (“stop words”) such as “it”, “the”, “a” and “and” that formerly were excluded from searches. Please note - in order for this to function properly, make sure the phrase you are searching for is enclosed in quotes (“ “).

Every document in LTDL now available as a PDF:
All of the records now contain PDFs but please note - currently, about 5,000 of these are non-searchable PDFs, meaning that once you open the document as a PDF, you cannot search for terms within the PDF text itself. We are committed to making every PDF searchable so look for updates on this feature.

Faster Searches:
Changes to the LTDL index have resulted in searches roughly 3X faster than before!

Fuzzy Searching:
We have upgraded the fuzzy search feature which finds words that are "close" in spelling to the search term (i.e. “coumarin~” finds coumadin, coumerin, coumaric, etc. ) This is especially helpful when searching text that has been OCR’ed.
See the LTDL Search Help for more information on fuzzy searching.

Bibliography Additions

14 new resources have been added to the UCSF Tobacco Documents Bibliography on the Galen Library website.

TobaccoWiki

Try out the new tobacco document research site TobaccoWiki (http://www.tobaccowiki.org/) - an online collaborative research project to which anyone can contribute. Tobaccowiki is a portal site on http://www.sourcewatch.org/ and it was created to encourage more people around the world to engage in tobacco document research. Some of the great features of TobaccoWiki include the Tobacco Documents Biographies database containing names and descriptions of thousands people involved with the industry, a database of Industry Projects and Operations, and a database of Industry-Related Organizations. There is a section for Consumer Letters, and links to information on additives, brands and brand information, and much more. Access TobaccoWiki now and join in this collaborative project to improve access to information contained in the tobacco industry's documents!

American Legacy Foundation honors Prof. Stan Glantz

The American Legacy Foundation has announced a gift to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to honor Dr. Stanton Glantz with a new Distinguished Professorship in Tobacco Control. Glantz, the first recipient of this distinguished chair for the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF, is a widely respected scientist and advocate for tobacco control. Among his many personal and professional achievements, Professor Glantz is the head of the national advocacy program, Smoke Free Movies, a member of a number of scientific peer review bodies, and co-author of The Cigarette Papers as well as over 20 other books and more than 200 scholarly articles.

New Collections and Features

Liggett & Myers Collection and RPCI Records Added

• Approximately 400,000 pages of Liggett & Myers internal documents have been added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. In 1997, Liggett & Myers, the smallest of the five major tobacco companies, became the first to settle lawsuits in 22 states and to help state prosecutors litigate against the nation’s biggest cigarette manufacturers by providing evidence of industry strategies and tactics. Because of their early compliance with prosecutors, L&M was not included in the Master Settlement Agreement stipulation for creation of company document websites, meaning these documents exist nowhere else in electronic format.The new Liggett & Myers collection can be searched in conjunction with the other tobacco company collections or as a single collection.
• Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) has scanned the document collections of the Tobacco Institute and Council for Tobacco Research whose collections also contain several thousand audiovisual tapes which focus primarily on tobacco industry public relations efforts. The records of these new resources have been integrated into the LTDL Multimedia Collection and are available for viewing through RPCI.

Basic Search Tutorial Available
Those new to the LTDL site can now view a tutorial that provides a quick overview of how to conduct a basic search on the documents. The tutorial can be found on the home page as well as on the Search Help page.

The New LTDL Has Arrived!

As you can see, the LTDL has a different look and new features we hope will provide an improved research experience for all levels of users. If you have any problems with the site, questions about how to use some of the new features, or just want to give us feed back, please contact us by clicking on the "Questions or Comments?" link found on the left-hand menu of every page.

Community Training Workshop

The Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education is holding an annual one-day workshop in June for community-based advocates on using tobacco industry documents for advocacy. The workshop covers:
introduction to the on-line tobacco industry documents;
hands-on practice searching tobacco industry documents databases under the supervision of expert documents researchers;
examples of ways in which the documents can be of use for public health work in your community; and
opportunities to meet and brainstorm with top documents researchers and other advocates.

The workshop is held at the University of California, San Francisco, Kalmanovitz Library, 530 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, California. To receive information about the 2007 workshop, contact Jenni Alexander at jenni.alexander(at)ucsf.edu.