Tobacco industry documents: treasure trove or quagmire?
Tobacco industry documents: treasure trove or quagmire?
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DOI：
10.1136/tc.9.3.334
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发表时间：
2000-09-01
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影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
Balbach, ED
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作者：
Malone, RE;Balbach, ED
在明尼苏达州和明尼苏达州蓝十字和蓝盾诉菲利普莫里斯等法律案件以及其他法律案件的发现过程中，超过2700万页的烟草业内部文件的公布为烟草控制研究人员和倡导者提供了前所未有的机会，可以更多地了解烟草业的内部运作。公众可以在1998年在明尼阿波利斯开设的明尼苏达烟草文件保管所、英格兰吉尔福德的吉尔福德文件保管所以及通过http://www访问的万维网上查看这些文件。TobaccoArchives。com和其他网站。此外，用户还可以通过网站访问华盛顿州、密西西比州、佛罗里达州和德克萨斯州的州诉讼文件，以及英国吉尔福德的英美烟草文件选集。（见下文“其他烟草文件资源”）。尽管绝大多数文件来自明尼苏达州的案件，该案件导致菲利普莫里斯公司、雷诺烟草公司、美国烟草公司、罗瑞拉德公司、烟草研究所、布朗和威廉姆森公司以及烟草研究委员会的文件公开，但这些文件继续与其他法律案件一起提供。鉴于可获得的文件数量巨大，这些收藏可能被证明要么是对烟草控制研究和宣传有价值的信息宝库，要么是使研究人员陷入绝望的数量泥潭。在这篇文章中，我们讨论了在图书馆和各种在线网站上搜索文档之间的差异，并提出了一些实用的策略，可以帮助研究人员在使用这些集合时更有效率。
The release of over 27 million pages of internal tobacco industry documents as a result of discovery processes in The State of Minnesota and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota versus Philip Morris et al and other legal cases has provided tobacco control researchers and advocates with unprecedented opportunities to understand more about the inner workings of the industry. Documents are available for public viewing at the Minnesota Tobacco Document Depository, which opened in Minneapolis in 1998, at the Guildford Document Depository in Guildford, England, and on the world wide web, accessible through http://www. TobaccoArchives. com/and other sites. In addition, through websites, users can get access to documents produced under the state litigation in Washington, Mississippi, Florida, and Texas, and selections from the British American Tobacco documents housed at Guildford, UK.(see “other tobacco documents resources”, below). Though the vast majority of documents are from the Minnesota case, which resulted in the release of documents from Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds, American Tobacco, Lorillard, the Tobacco Institute, Brown and Williamson, and the Council on Tobacco Research, collections continue to become available in conjunction with other legal cases. Given the enormous numbers of documents that are available, the collections may prove to be either a treasure trove of information valuable for tobacco control research and advocacy, or a quagmire of quantity into which researchers sink in despair. In this article, we discuss diVerences between searching for documents at the depository and on various online sites and suggest some practical strategies that may help researchers be more productive while using these collections.