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