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  1. Oberlin College faculty unanimously endorses open access http://tinyurl.com/ykyfz2j
  2. Follow @kcrews for tweets on copyright, inc .on the Google Books Settlement. Also check http://bit.ly/5JlWPu
  3. What motivates researchers to publish in the UK, and what venues do they use? http://bit.ly/5mBd8g
  4. 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
  5. at the public health school, we're exploring how to make our data open and usable
  6. is there a central role at Columbia for managing this data and its dissemination?
  7. but when i do actually share it, how do i manage and monitor how disseminated data is being used? this is a burden.
  8. some data usage agreements prohibit distribution.
  9. once we actually get our hands on data, there is the issue of what our responsibility is to distribute it
  10. sometimes we just got the stiff arm- like with the police dept, which continues to block data from us
  11. sometimes there was a download from the agency site, sometimes we had to shake hands and make deals, relationships w agency officials
  12. there is no systematic response across city agencies re: getting access to administrative data
  13. we had to go through a lot of trouble to get access to data on tree locations and information from city agencies
  14. for our work on childhood asthma prevalence and street tree density (the latter decreases the former)
  15. 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.
  16. 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
  17. the results of http://bit.ly/2nPYNs are being used to change zoning regulations
  18. we spent a lot of money buying data that should have been available from the nyc gov
  19. more on neighborhood walkability: http://bit.ly/Mb6J6
  20. we do a lot of work related to built enviro constructs related to obesity - such as Walk-ability indices