Historians and Other Scholars Fight Proposed Expansion of IRB Rules

by E Wayne Ross on February 5, 2008

The Chronicle News Blog: Historians and Other Scholars Fight Proposed Expansion of IRB Rules

Oral history should not be subject to approval by institutional review boards, according to dozens of comments submitted by historians and others to the federal Office for Human Research Protections, which announced last October that it would amend the rules governing what kinds of research qualify for expedited review by the boards.