A 1998 legal agreement entered into by the four major tobacco companies and 46 U.S. States, which resolved the States’ lawsuits against the tobacco industry for recovery of tobacco-related health-care costs. The MSA required the companies to end certain marketing practices, to pay over $206 billion to the States, and to make their internal documents available to the public.
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Digital Archives and Data Science: Building Programs and Partnerships for Health Sciences Research
Kate Tasker (University of California, San Francisco, USA), Rachel Taketa (University of California, San Francisco, USA), Charles Macquarie (University of California, San Francisco, USA), and Ariel Deardorff (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
Copyright: © 2022
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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9702-6.ch007
Abstract
This chapter describes work by the UCSF Industry Documents Library to develop resources, programs, and initiatives to support data science work with a diverse audience in the fields of health sciences, history of medicine, public health policy, and tobacco control. The Industry Documents Library (IDL) is a digital archive of over 15 million documents created by industries impacting public health, hosted by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Library. The chapter describes the public health impact of industry documents research, highlights several examples of computational projects conducted by IDL scholars, outlines the IDL's developing plans for using data science techniques to assist with large-scale digital collection appraisal and metadata enhancement, and discusses how the IDL is expanding its collaborations with the UCSF Library's Data Science Initiative and Archives and Special Collections departments to further develop impactful data science programs across the university.