October 31, 2003
Federal Agency Says Oral-History Research Is Not Covered by Human-Subject Rules
Washington
The federal office that oversees the use of human volunteers in research has decided that oral-history interviews generally do not fall under the government's definition of research and thus do not need to be regulated by institutional review boards.
The decision follows complaints from oral historians and other social scientists that the university-based review boards have unreasonably questioned, restricted, and delayed their work to
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