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  • Fri, Dec 13th
    • Oberlin College faculty unanimously endorses open access http://tinyurl.com/ykyfz2j 03:45 PM
    • Follow @kcrews for tweets on copyright, inc .on the Google Books Settlement. Also check http://bit.ly/5JlWPu 03:45 PM
    • What motivates researchers to publish in the UK, and what venues do they use? http://bit.ly/5mBd8g 03:45 PM
    • from SCP: thanks for following today! Be sure to check http://bit.ly/3CcI1s in the near future for video of http://bit.ly/1jVuEa i 03:45 PM
    • at the public health school, we're exploring how to make our data open and usable 03:45 PM
    • is there a central role at Columbia for managing this data and its dissemination? 03:45 PM
    • but when i do actually share it, how do i manage and monitor how disseminated data is being used? this is a burden. 03:45 PM
    • some data usage agreements prohibit distribution. 03:45 PM
    • once we actually get our hands on data, there is the issue of what our responsibility is to distribute it 03:45 PM
    • sometimes we just got the stiff arm- like with the police dept, which continues to block data from us 03:45 PM
    • sometimes there was a download from the agency site, sometimes we had to shake hands and make deals, relationships w agency officials 03:45 PM
    • there is no systematic response across city agencies re: getting access to administrative data 03:45 PM
    • we had to go through a lot of trouble to get access to data on tree locations and information from city agencies 03:45 PM
    • for our work on childhood asthma prevalence and street tree density (the latter decreases the former) 03:45 PM
    • we're also doing work on access to parks. i had to go thru an 18 month process just to get access to data on where parks are. 03:45 PM
    • for a long time the Mailman school of pubic health couldn't access data from the DOH- it took years to get access to fundamental stats 03:45 PM
    • the results of http://bit.ly/2nPYNs are being used to change zoning regulations 03:45 PM
    • we spent a lot of money buying data that should have been available from the nyc gov 03:45 PM
    • more on neighborhood walkability: http://bit.ly/Mb6J6 03:45 PM
    • we do a lot of work related to built enviro constructs related to obesity - such as Walk-ability indices 03:45 PM
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