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USA/World: more powerful version of Legacy Tobacco Documents Library

Library & Center for Knowledge Management, University of California, San Francisco, USA; kim.klausner@library.ucsf.edu

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In May, the University of California, San Francisco Library and Center for Knowledge Mangement released a completely redesigned version of the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) website. The new website is based on an updated technology that allows full text searching across all 7.6 million previously secret tobacco industry documents (40.6 million pages) in the collection. In addition, LTDL contains two other unique collections: DATTA (depositions, testimony, and opening and closing statements from tobacco-related trials) and Multimedia (links to over 460 videos that can be viewed online at the Internet Archive website).

In addition, all 72 fields of indexing data (metadata) used by one or more of the tobacco companies are now directly searchable and researchers can create Boolean queries of unlimited length. The full text search capability allows researchers to find many more documents. For example, searching on "World Bank" yields 1777 documents on the old Legacy site and 32 . . . [Full text of this article]