Training, Discernment, and Oral History Review
... programs for Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). Drawing on the experiences of members of our ... there was a significant problem with the way IRBs are exercising their authority—which is ... the regulations have been implemented is that IRBs rarely seem to “meet the requirement in 45 ... 46.107 that the IRB will ‘include persons knowledgeable’ ... under review. OHRP should make clear than an IRB whose members are unwilling to learn the methods ... that oral history should be excluded from IRB oversight, and asks OHRP to “reissue its ... unambiguous exclusion of oral history from IRB jurisdiction on the grounds that it is does not ...
http://blog.historians.org/profession/618/training-discernment-and-oral-history-review ·
419 days ago
The Problem with IRBs
... the extension of Institutional Review Board (IRB) oversight into humanities and social science ... Review Board.” As the report details, the IRBs exercise virtually unchecked power, make up ... expanded the mandate and mission of the IRBs to cover methods of academic research—such as ... with the federal office that oversees the IRB regulations in 2003, a recent ...
http://blog.historians.org/advocacy/25/the-problem-with-irbs ·
1137 days ago
Blogging the IRB
... own oral history projects had been subject to IRB review, he was told that “OHRP determined ... therefore, this activity was not subject to IRB review.” If only every opinion from ...
http://blog.historians.org/advocacy/111/blogging-the-irb ·
1044 days ago
Thinking Ahead
... off to press, dealing with this threat from an IRB, or that attempt to sell off access to a piece of ...
http://blog.historians.org/profession/45/thinking-ahead ·
1118 days ago
Oral History and IRBs
... objecting to the often arbitrary application of IRB rules, which use criteria that seem wholly ...
http://blog.historians.org/advocacy/53/oral-history-and-irbs ·
1111 days ago
Debating the Need for IRBs – A Chronicle Colloquy
... addressing a variety of issues with IRBs. Concerns about IRBs’ lack of clear and ... of discussion. While questioning whether IRBs should oversee oral history, Townsend did attest ... went on to say that “[t]he problem is that the [IRB] rules as they now exist seem to leave little ...
http://blog.historians.org/advocacy/57/debating-the-need-for-irbs--a-chronicle-colloquy ·
1109 days ago
Clarifying the Clarifications
... history does not fit into the standard boxes most IRBs seems to use, that oral historians have ...
http://blog.historians.org/advocacy/87/clarifying-the-clarifications ·
1076 days ago
Bancroft Prize Winners Announced
... Jack Temple Kirby and Robert D. Richardson have won the ... history, biography, and diplomacy. Jack Temple Kirby, W. E. Smith Professor Emeritus of History at ...
http://blog.historians.org/news/202/bancroft-prize-winners-announced ·
941 days ago
Remembering the Little Rock Crisis in Documents
... the watchful eye of 1,000 members of the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army, a mob of angry ...
http://blog.historians.org/resources/331/remembering-the-little-rock-crisis-in-documents ·
788 days ago
What We’re Reading: October 25, 2007 Edition
... The Problem with IRBs”). This article from Inside ... Ed takes the battle against IRBs to the actual battlefield, and asks whether ...
http://blog.historians.org/what-we-are-reading/358/what-were-reading-october-25-2007-edition ·
759 days ago
The Feds and IRBs: Your Opportunity to Weigh in
... to the intrusion of institutional review boards (IRBs) into oral history research. This provides a ... For those who do not follow this issue, IRBs were set up at universities and research centers ... to clarify or reverse this policy of using IRBs to regulate oral history, first by working with ... and then by encouraging departments to engage the IRBs at their home institutions to clarify these ... 11 Digital Archive under IRB purview. The current category applies to ... and the gathering of other testimonials from IRB oversight. The new proposed language would ... to research that is not exempt. IRBs seem inclined to define these categories and ... for future scholarly research explicitly under IRB review, and goes a step further by excluding it ... But as many oral historians have discovered, IRBs are generally comprised of faculty with no ... As a result, oral historians report that IRBs are applying rigid criteria on things like ... to?) So the possibility of further extending IRB oversight into basic collection practices should ... around the kind of oral history topics the IRBs can review. It will probably pay to be ... public places, be exempt from the requirement of IRB review—straightforwardly exempt, with no ... and no requirement of IRB approval of the exemption.” Please ...
http://blog.historians.org/profession/372/the-feds-and-irbs-your-opportunity-to-weigh-in ·
747 days ago
AHA Asks for Oral History Exclusion
... have been implemented," and concludes that IRB oversight is in "conflict with the ... This change could potentially further extend IRB purview over gathering, archiving, and future use ... of the relationship between history and the IRB regime, was prepared by Zachary Schrag (an ...
http://blog.historians.org/news/410/aha-asks-for-oral-history-exclusion ·
695 days ago
The 2008 General Meeting – Prizes and Awards
... Univ. Press, 2006 John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History ... High School, Arkansas (Mike Johnson, Adam Kirby, Cynthia Mahomes, Keith Richardson, Rachel ... April Rike, Sarah Schutte, Kirby Shofner, George West, and Stan Williams). ...
http://blog.historians.org/annual-meeting/421/the-2008-general-meeting--prizes-and-awards ·
686 days ago
Sizeable Response on Review Board Issue
... methods subject to institutional review boards (IRBs). Dr. Zachary Schrag, an assistant professor ... noted that this seemed likely to extend IRB intrusion over new areas of archival collection ...
http://blog.historians.org/news/452/sizeable-response-on-review-board-issue ·
649 days ago
Perspectives on History Online – February 2008 Issue
... statement on IRBs. See also news from both the National ...
http://blog.historians.org/publications/455/perspectives-on-history-online--february-2008-issue ·
648 days ago
What We’re Reading: May 1, 2008 Edition
... with a link to Zachary Schrag’s article on IRBs, which examines “how talking became human ...
http://blog.historians.org/what-we-are-reading/510/what-were-reading-may-1-2008-edition ·
570 days ago
Trained to Review Oral History?
... programs for institutional review boards (IRBs), which poses a difficult question for members ... sure. The inconsistent and uneven application of IRB policies to members of our discipline ...
http://blog.historians.org/profession/578/trained-to-review-oral-history ·
466 days ago
What We’re Reading: February 12, 2009 Edition
... oral history and Institutional Review Boards (IRB). Lincoln gets two mentions in this week’s ... summarizes two recent policy statements about IRB review of oral history, noting that the ...
http://blog.historians.org/what-we-are-reading/723/what-were-reading-february-12-2009-edition ·
283 days ago
Listening to the Past: Oral History Online
... Review Boards. Some posts on AHA Today on IRBs include: The Problem with IRBs, Debating the Need for IRBs – A Chronicle Colloquy, and ...
http://blog.historians.org/resources/792/listening-to-the-past-oral-history-online ·
188 days ago
What We’re Reading: July 9, 2009 Edition
... this week, covering topics of oral history and IRBs, scholarly publishing, and American history. ...
http://blog.historians.org/what-we-are-reading/831/what-were-reading-july-9-2009-edition ·
136 days ago
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