PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Stacey J Anderson
AU  - Phyra M McCandless
AU  - Kim Klausner
AU  - Rachel Taketa
AU  - Valerie B Yerger
TI  - Tobacco documents research methodology
AID  - 10.1136/tc.2010.041921
DP  - 2011 May 01
TA  - Tobacco Control
PG  - ii8--ii11
VI  - 20
IP  - Suppl 2
4099  - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/20/Suppl_2/ii8.short
4100  - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/20/Suppl_2/ii8.full
SO  - Tob Control2011 May 01; 20
AB  - Tobacco documents research has developed into a thriving academic enterprise since its inception in 1995. The technology supporting tobacco documents archiving, searching and retrieval has improved greatly since that time, and consequently tobacco documents researchers have considerably more access to resources than was the case when researchers had to travel to physical archives and/or electronically search poorly and incompletely indexed documents. The authors of the papers presented in this supplement all followed the same basic research methodology. Rather than leave the reader of the supplement to read the same discussion of methods in each individual paper, presented here is an overview of the methods all authors followed. In the individual articles that follow in this supplement, the authors present the additional methodological information specific to their topics. This brief discussion also highlights technological capabilities in the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library and updates methods for organising internal tobacco documents data and findings.