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.
- Requirements for education on the protection of human subjects
- Protection of Human Research Subjects Computer Based Training for Researchers (designed for NIH researchers, but you can download it and modify it for your own site)
- Human Participant Protections Education for Research Teams (qualifies for continuing education credits for medical professionals)
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)
- University of Mississippi PsychExps: Internet Access to a Library of Psychology Experiments (Classic and New)
- Purdue University Cognitive Psychology Online Laboratory
Professional Associations:
Journals:
Research Ethics
Code of Ethics of Professional Societies in the Social Sciences:
- American Psychological Society
- American Psychological Association
- American Anthropological Association
- American Sociological Association
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
