Institutional Review Board: Helpful Links

The following links relate to Human Subjects research and Institutional Review Boards. This page should be useful for faculty researchers, student researchers, and IRB members. If you have any questions, or if you have links to suggest, please email us: irb"at"calvin.edu

General Sites

Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP)

Office of Human Subjects Research (OHSR) at the National Institutes of Health

National Institutes of Health - Bioethics Resources on the Web - More than 4,500 references, training materials, etc.

American Psychological Association

American Psychological Society:

The National Association of IRB Managers (NAIM)

The President's Council on Bioethics

Stanford University - Site for non-medical human subjects research


Research in Cyberspace

Conference Proceedings:

American Association for the Advancement of Science: Ethics and legal aspects of human subjects research in cyberspace (A report of a workshop, June 10-11, 1999, Washington, DC)

Univeristy of Mississippi PsychExps: Internet Access to a Library of Psychology Experiments (Classic and New)

Purdue University Cognitive Psychology Online Laboratory

Professional Associations:

Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies

Association of Internet Researchers

Journals:

Journal of On-line Behavior

The Journal of Virtual Environments

Cyberpsychology and Behavior

Convergence

New Media and Society


Research Ethics

Code of Ethics of Professional Societies in the Social Sciences:

Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science

Website of James J. Hughes (UCONN and UHartford)

University of Washington School of Medicine - Research Ethics FAQ

University of California - San Diego Research Ethics

Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education - Ethical Principles in University Teaching


Web Training Sites

National Association of IRB Managers

Office for Human Research Protection Online Training Module

National Cancer Institute online continuing education program on the protection of human subjects of research


Sample Institutional Research Policies at Other Institutions

Penn State

Lehigh University

Bloomsburg University

Gustavus Adolphus College

Washington & Lee

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

United States Air Force Academy