Tobacco documents research methodology

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.

• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Tobacco Control

• Publication date

  2011-04-19

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1136/tc.2010.041921PMID 21504933PMCID 3085001
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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