- Collection:
- AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library Staff Publications
- Title:
- A Tale of Three IRBs
- Creator:
- de la Cruz, Justin
- Publisher:
- Association of College and Research Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 2020
2021-02-11 - Subject:
- Library science
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Under normal circumstances, informational professionals submit research proposals to their home institution's IRB for approval, even if their human subjects will be drawn from populations outside of their campus. For example, a team of researchers might interview librarians at institutions across the US but would only need approval from their own organization's IRB to perform such a study. I have special circumstances, though: I work for a consortium containing four institutions of higher education. While preparing to submit my research proposal, which indicated that I intended to draw student participants from three of our campuses, I was informed by one of our IRBs that I would need to undergo the IRB approval process concurrently at each campus. Specifically, their response included the statement "It is not sufficient to have IRB approval from one's home institution" to conduct research involving their personnel. Basically, since our library serves all these institutions, I was considered an external researcher at each one.
Chapter 6 of the following book: Fullington, L. A., West, B., & Albarillo, F. (Eds.). (2020). Reflections on practitioner research : a practical guide for information professionals. Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.rwwlpub:0042
- Rights Holder:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection either are protected by copyright or are the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and/or the copyright holder as appropriate.
- Original Collection:
- Reflections on practitioner research : a practical guide for information professionals.
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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