[Air-L] Suggestions on ethics of using online data for academic research

[Steve Cavrak]

Pawan Singh wrote:
> If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. It'll be a great help.
>   
Hi Pawan, et al,

Not so much a concrete suggestion, but a meta suggestion.

Most Universities have both research approval board and research support 
personnel - the approval people are found in places like "Human Subject 
Policy" projects, "Institutional Research Board," etc ... and the 
consulting people are often in the computing center, the library or 
information commons, or in a statistical and methods consulting group 
(e.g. a "bioinformatics" or "medical informatics" or "biometrics" 
...etc.) Sometimes a Center for Teaching and Learning center will have 
these contacts ...

What would be good would be to track down a few of them and describe 
your research and the problems you are running into ... they may be able 
to come up with some alternative strategies for getting at the 
information and data you need. ..

And don't forget about departments that are across campus - that might 
have different research strategies - sometimes the can also give a 
pointer that will get out of what otherwise seem as dead ends.

Steve