Educational Resources for Human Subject Research
Institutional Review Board
Among more traditional sources of information such as books and journals, the Internet has become a knowledge center for Institutional Review board resources. The links on this page are an early attempt to categorize information from all types of sources for use by students, researchers, and chairs of Institutional Research Boards. We will update the page as we locate new information. If you have links you would like to appear on this page, please email Abe Feuerstein.
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
Specific Topic Areas
IRB News
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)
Professional Associations
Journals
Books
Castells, M. (2000). The Information Age (Vols. 1-3, Rev. Ed.). Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Gauntlett, D. (Ed.). (2000). Web studies: Rewiring media studies for the digital age. New York:Oxford University Press.
Herman, A. & Swiss, T. (Eds.). (2000). The World Wide Web and comtemporary cultural theory. New York:Routledge.
Jones, S. G. (Ed.). (1998). Cybersociety 2.0: Revising computer-mediated communication in cyberspace. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Jones, S. G. (Ed.). (1998). Virtual culture: Identity and communication in cyberspace. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Jones, S. G. (Ed.). (1999). Doing Internet research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Kolko, B. E., Nakamura, L., & Rodman, G. B. (Eds.). (2000). Race in cyberspace. New York:Routledge.
Manovich, L. (2000). The language of new media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Rheingold, H. (2000). The virtual community: Homesteading on the electronic frontier. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Trend, D. (Ed.). (2001). Reading digital culture. Malden, MA:Blackwell.
Stone, A. R. (1995). The war of desire and technolgoy at the close of the Mechanical Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Turkle, S. (1995). Life on the screen: Identity in the age of the Internet. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Research Ethics
Code of Ethics of Professional Societies in the Social Sciences
- American Psychological Society
- American Psychological Assocation
- 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
Deception
Professional ethics for scientists: Website of Linda Sweeting, Towson Univsersity
Spence, S. A., Farrow, T. F. D, Herford, A. E., Wilkinson, I. D., Zheng, Y., Y Woodruff, P. W. R. (2001). Behavioral and functional anatomical correlates of deception in humans. Neuroreport, 12(13), 2849-2853.
Web Training Sites
National Association of IRB Managers
Sample Institutional Research Policies at Other Institutions
