The Belmont Report and the Federal Regulations are the two most important federal documents that the Institutional Review Board must follow.  Listed below are those two documents and several other resources.

• Tips for completing your IRB application
• Belmont Report - Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of  Human Subjects of Research
• Office for Human Research Protections(OHRP) - Title 45 CFR Part 46: Protection of Human Subjects
• IRBs and the HIPAA Privacy Rule (NIH)
• NIH Guidance on Research Repositories, Databases, and the Privacy Rule (NIH)
• Qualtrics - free for UWG faculty, staff, and students
  • Adding consent to Qualtrics surveys
  • Printing Qualtrics surveys for IRB review
• Deception/Incomplete Disclosures in Research
• Data Security/Online Data Collection
• Public Use Data Sets
• Oral Histories/Ethnographies
• International Research/Research in languages other than English