A Tale of Three IRBs

de la Cruz, Justin

2021-02-11

2020

2020-2029

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.

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.

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