Helpful Links

Institutional Review Board (IRB) guidelines of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 46 (45 CFR 46): Protection of Human Subjects http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/guidance/45cfr46.html.

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) guidelines of the NIH, from its Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/references/phspol.htm

DHHS Office of Human Research Protections IRB Guidebook http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/archive/irb/irb_chapter1.htm

Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/labrats/

IRB's relevance to ethnographic researchers http://www.aaanet.org/stmts/irb.htm

Online tutorial for OHRP Human Subject Assurance Training

http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/education/training/introduction.html

Online tutorial from the Office of Lab Animal Welfare on the PHS Policy on lab animal use

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/tutorial/index.htm