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Sponsored Projects in the Library

Sponsored Projects

The Library is engaged with partners throughout the university, the campus, and the health sciences community to collect, preserve, and provide access to unique materials of scholarly interest. The Library's Center for Knowledge Management designs and develops online environments and knowledge management tools to support these efforts. Archives & Special Collections provides curatorial and preservation expertise.

Ilios

Faculty, in all the schools, need a means for organizing the content for their courses, the ability to publish that content into a course management system for students to access, and the ability to share and collaborate with colleagues. By creating a partnership with the School of Medicine, the Library will be able to leverage the growing skill set to not only meet the needs of the Ilios redesign but also meet the needs of the other schools on campus. More information.

Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL)

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) contains more than 11 million documents created by major tobacco companies related to their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities.

Originally started with previously-secret documents produced by the five major US tobacco companies and their industry associations during litigation filed by state Attorneys General, LTDL now offers full-text searching and sophisticated functionality.

Library staff collaborated with tobacco control researchers internationally to develop LTDL, and through the support of the American Legacy Foundation, it will remain a permanent, stable interface for research. Infrastructure and programming are provided by the Library's Center for Knowledge Management. More information.

Drug Industry Document Archive (DIDA)

The Drug Industry Document Archive (DIDA) contains over 2500 documents about pharmaceutical industry clinical trials, publication of study results, pricing, marketing, relations with physicians and involvement in continuing medical education. Most of these previously secret documents were made public as a result of lawsuits against a number of major US pharmaceutical companies.

DIDA was created in collaboration with UCSF faculty members C. Seth Landefeld, MD and Michael Steinman, MD to house material pertaining to litigation in which they were unpaid, expert witnesses. Originally funded by Thomas Greene, the plaintiff's attorney in the case, DIDA is being developed in conjunction with an international body of researchers. Infrastructure and programming for this project is provided by the Library's Center for Knowledge Management. More information.