RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Tobacco documents research methodology
JF Tobacco Control
JO Tob Control
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP ii8
OP ii11
DO 10.1136/tc.2010.041921
VO 20
IS Suppl 2
A1 Stacey J Anderson
A1 Phyra M McCandless
A1 Kim Klausner
A1 Rachel Taketa
A1 Valerie B Yerger
YR 2011
UL http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/20/Suppl_2/ii8.abstract
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.