OTRU’s resources include a variety of materials to help serve the needs of the tobacco control research community and our partners in the Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy.

The OTRU library houses over 8,000 citations related to Smoking and Tobacco. The collection consists of OTRU publications, journal articles, grey literature, books and reports. All Current Abstract entries have been integrated into the collection. Borrowing privileges for books and grey literature is limited to OTRU staff. Wherever possible, we provide links to full text articles and reports.

The OTRU Glossary of Tobacco Control provides information on more than 1,000 tobacco control terms and definitions. The glossary contains more than 1500 cross references, over 100 supporting literature citations and is searchable by key word.

Our monthly Current Abstracts on Tobacco Control series provides an electronic list of selected new journal articles and reports on tobacco topics, with an emphasis on Canadian authors and research. Hyperlinks to the abstracts are provided, with access to full text wherever possible.

OTRU Reading Lists provide a brief selection of journal articles, online reports and other web-based material on hot topics in tobacco control. While our lists are not intended to be comprehensive, they offer an introduction to work in specific tobacco control topics and they will be updated periodically as new literature becomes available.

The Directory of Public Use Data on Tobacco Use in Canada has been prepared to help researchers and students locate high quality Canadian data on smoking and tobacco.

The Searchable Database of Questionnaire Items from Population Surveys of Tobacco Use in Canada is a source of reliable and valid survey questions related to tobacco.

Links to a list of peer-reviewed journals which publish tobacco related material and to other organizations in tobacco control are also provided.