UC San Francisco Library, Industry Documents Library
Library, Industry Documents Library
UC San Francisco
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Phone: (415) 514-1796
- Email: industrydocuments@ucsf.edu
- Website: https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/
The UCSF Industry Documents Library contains more than 15 million documents (90+ million pages) created by industries which influence public health. Originally established in 2002 to house the millions of documents publicly disclosed in litigation against the tobacco industry in the 1990s, the Library has expanded to include documents from the opioid, drug, chemical, food, and fossil fuel industries to preserve open access to this information and to support research on the commercial determinants of public health.
Collections at this institution
Gallaher Collection
From 2005 until 2008, Gallaher, a UK-based tobacco company which was later bought by Japan Tobacco International (JTI), spent three years in a bitter legal battle against its former Middle Eastern distributor. More than 20,000 internal documents were disclosed in the course of the litigation between Gallaher and the Cypriot company, Tlais Enterprises. This collection is a subset of those documents. During the trial, Gallaher was accused of "complicity in facilitating worldwide smuggling, sanction-busting in Iraq, and the dumping of sub-standard cigarettes in Africa and Afghanistan," according to the British press.
Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Industry Documents Library
12,875 Items
Pollay Advertising Collection
Richard W. Pollay was Curator of the History of Advertising Archives, University of British Columbia, when first asked to contribute his historical knowledge in tobacco litigation (Cipollone v Liggett et al, 1988). Over the next 20 years his knowledge of tobacco marketing was shared in many trials and with many governments, and he wrote many articles for peer reviewed journals, US Surgeon General Reports and National Cancer Institute Monographs based upon his own research and access to corporate documents, such as at UCSF. During this time he amassed a collection of over 10,000 examples of cigarette print advertising, as well …
Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Industry Documents Library
11,466 Items
