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Welcome to the new version of the Tobacco Documents System (TDS) for Australasia.

TDS Australasia's main focus is on tobacco industry internal documents that concern Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, The Philippines and Thailand from the files of Philip Morris Incorporated, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Brown & Williamson, the American Tobacco Company, Lorillard Tobacco Company, The Council for Tobacco Research--U.S.A., Inc., The Tobacco Institute and British American Tobacco (BAT).

An important change is that database is now incorporating materials from sources other than the internal industry documents. The database is expanding to include information from a range of different sources such as documents from the filing cabinets of the late Dr Cotter Harvey, materials collected and produced by Peter Vogel, an antismoking activist active in the early 1980s in BUGAUP, examples of old cigarette advertisements, old photographs showing the Marlboro trademark on children's toys, and select media stories. To find out more about the new materials click here.

For tobacco industry documents, about 80% of the available tobacco industry documents concerning the project countries for TDS Australasia are of little, if any significance, being duplicates, copies of public documents or blank manilla folders. The TDS system has excluded most of these, loading only those that may hold interest to researchers and tobacco control advocates. The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library and Tobacco Documents Online are maintaining an indexed archive of all copies of tobacco industry documents representing the industry websites as of July 1999 and progressively updating their collections as new material is added to the industry websites.

Records for industry documents provide descriptive information about the document such as the title, date, source and bates number, value-added in most circumstances with a summary (interpretive information), subject headings, a document rating with a link to the document image. The source images are in PDF format.

Records for materials from non industry sources provide a brief description of the material and where available a link to the source image. Records that have document images have a VIEW FILE option. There will be many circumstances where a source image is not available, for example parliamentary debates.

The database offers just over 11,000 industry documents and over 5600 records from non industry sources. New material will be added on a weekly basis over the next 6 months.

Please review the database search help before querying the database.

You can search the TDS database by either conducting a Quick Search or an Advanced Search. The search interface will only work with Internet Explorer 5.0 or Netscape Navigator 6.0 and above.

The Quick Search option enables keyword searching across all fields. You can enter either a word or a phrase into the search box to locate records. The Advanced Search offers more features to search and limit results and will be improved further over the coming months.

To search other key secondary tobacco document collections around the world click on Other Collections.

To review papers published by the research team at the University of Sydney based on investigations of tobacco industry documents go to the USyd Research Publications section.