Bliss, Alan. "Oral History Research." In Institutional Review Board Management and 

Function, edited by Robert J. Amdur, M.D. and Elizabeth A. Bankert.  Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2002.

Brainard, Jeffrey.  "The Wrong Rules for Social Science?"  The Chronicle of Higher 

Education, March 9, 2001, A21.
available at http://chronicle.com for those with a subscription to the Chronicle

COSSA Washington Update
http://www.cossa.org

newsletter of the Consortium of Social Science Associations; provides
excellent regular coverage of current federal issues/debates/actions related to human subjects review; searchable on line

Gordon, Michael, “Historians and Review Boards,” Perspectives, 35:6 (September

1997), 35-37.

Includes a sample description of an oral history project that can be submitted to an IRB for review.

National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and 

Behavioral Research.  Belmont Report:Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research.  Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979.
http://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/humansubjects/guidance/belmont.htm
The landmark federal report that defined the fundamental ethical principles to govern research on human subjects.

Oral History Evaluation Guidelines, rev. ed.Carlisle, Pa.: Oral History Association,

2000.

http://www.dickinson.edu/oha/EvaluationGuidelines.html

The professional standards for oral history, developed by the Oral History Association.

“Protecting Human Beings: Institutional Review Boards and Social Science Research,”

Academe, 87:3 (May-June 2001), 55-67.

http://www.aaup.org/statements/Redbook/repirb.htm

A thorough discussion of the difficulties social scientists – including historians – encounter as regulations developed within a biomedical frame of reference are applied to nonbiomedical research; useful as a reference in discussions with local IRBs.

Shea, Christopher, “Don’t Talk to the Humans: The Crackdown on Social Science

Research,” Linguafranca, 10:6 (September 2000).http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0009/humans.html

Shopes, Linda, “Institutional Review Boards Have a Chilling Effect on Oral History,”

AHA Perspectives, 38:6 (September 2000), 34-37. http://www.theaha.org/perspectives/issues/2000/0009/0009vie1.cfm

----------, “Historians and human-subjects research, recent science newsletter, 2:3

(Spring2001), 6ff.

Title 45 (Public Welfare) Code of Federal Regulations 46 (Protection of Human

Subjects). http://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/humansubjects/guidance/45cfr46.htm

These are the federal regulations governing research on human subjects, available at the website of the Office of Human Research Protections/US Department of Health & Human Services, which has responsibility for implementing them.OHRP’s website includes considerable additional information related to the regulations, their implications, and implementation.Home page ishttp://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/index.html.