Wrap-Up
We hope this lesson helped to address the development of primary ethical principles for evaluating research studies, their application to LIS An interdisciplinary field that examines how physical and digital information is organized, accessed, collected, managed, disseminated and used, particularly in library settings. research designs, and how research compliance requirements such as IRB A group that is charged with overseeing and approving research projects. The group ensures that research projects are ethical, meet regulations and standards, and protect any human subjects involved in the research. review and data management The ways a researcher collects, organizes, stores, and accesses data they collect for research. Creating a data management plan allows a researcher to know what data they will be collecting and how they will store and organize it during the research project. plans help support ethical research practices. You should now have:
- Tools to evaluate your own and others’ research against ethical principles;
- A sense of what questions to ask about research design, data management, and data preservation to help clarify and ensure research participants are respected and protected; and
- An understanding of how to conduct ethics and data management planning
Course 3 Lesson 4 will help you develop your research goals and build a comprehensive research agenda An iterative document or statement that provides a roadmap to your short and long term topics and ideas you’d like to research.. You may also be interested in the following lessons:
Further Learning
1. Schrag, Zachary M. Ethical Imperialism: Institutional Review Boards and the Social Sciences, 1965–2009. JHU Press, 2010.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the development and administration of IRBs.
2. Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy. “A Toolkit for Centering Racial Equity Within Data Integration.” The Annie E. Casey Foundation. 2020. https://www.aecf.org/resources/a-toolkit-for-centering-racial-equity-within-data-integration. (This toolkit provides resources to help researchers and organizations pursue racial justice and equity throughout the data lifecycle.)
3. Briney, Kristin, Yoose, Becky, Ockerbloom, John Mark, and Shea Swauger. “A Practical Guide to Performing a Library User Data Risk Assessment in Library-Built Systems.” Digital Library Federation. 2020. doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/V2C3M (This guide provides guidance for assessing the risk and benefits of data collected by libraries about their constituents.)
4. Briney, Kristin, and Becky Yoose. Managing Data for Patron Privacy: Comprehensive Strategies for Libraries. Chicago: ALA Editions, 2022. (This book contains detailed discussions of data management planning and practices for library data with particular emphasis on protecting privacy and confidentiality.)
5. Jones, Kyle, Thomson, John, and Kim Arnold. “Questions of Data Ownership on Campus.” Educause Review. 2014. https://er.educause.edu/articles/2014/8/questions-of-data-ownership-on-campus (This article discusses the complexities of assigning data ownership among the multiple stakeholders at US universities.)
Case Study: The Belfast Project. The Belfast project was an oral history interview study conducted with members of the Irish Republican Army and Loyalist paramilitary groups who participated in the conflict in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s and archived at Boston College’s Burns Library. It demonstrates how promises of confidentiality can be superseded by legal action as well as problems of maintaining secrecy in archival documents.
7. Inckle, Kay. “Promises, Promises: Lessons in Research Ethics from the Belfast Project and ‘The Rape Tape’Case.” Sociological Research Online 20, 1 (2015): 59–71.https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.3570
8. Kara, Helen. “Ethics Versus the Law: The Case of the Belfast Project.” In Ethics, Integrity and Policymaking: The Value of the Case Study, 123–34. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
Case Study: The Facebook Emotional Manipulation Study. This study examined the ability of Facebook posts to influence users’ emotional states without their knowledge or consent. It demonstrates problems of consent with online platforms, ethical issues when working with corporate entities, and weakness in IRB review..
10. Flick, Catherine. “Informed Consent and the Facebook Emotional Manipulation Study.” Research Ethics 12, 1 (2016): 14–28. doi.org/10.1177/1747016115599568.
11. Shaw, David. “Facebook’s Flawed Emotion Experiment: Antisocial Research on Social Network Users.” Research Ethics 12, 1 (2016): 29–34. doi.org/10.1177/1747016115579535.
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Wrap-Up
We hope this lesson helped to address the development of primary ethical principles for evaluating research studies, their application to LISLibrary and Information Science An interdisciplinary field that examines how physical and digital information is organized, accessed, collected, managed, disseminated and used, particularly in library settings. research designs, and how research compliance requirements such as IRBInstitutional Review Board A group that is charged with overseeing and approving research projects. The group ensures that research projects are ethical, meet regulations and standards, and protect any human subjects involved in the research. review and data managementData management The ways a researcher collects, organizes, stores, and accesses data they collect for research. Creating a data management plan allows a researcher to know what data they will be collecting and how they will store and organize it during the research project. plans help support ethical research practices. You should now have:
Course 3 Lesson 4 will help you develop your research goals and build a comprehensive research agendaResearch agenda An iterative document or statement that provides a roadmap to your short and long term topics and ideas you’d like to research.. You may also be interested in the following lessons:
Further Learning
1. Schrag, Zachary M. Ethical Imperialism: Institutional Review Boards and the Social Sciences, 1965–2009. JHU Press, 2010.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the development and administration of IRBs.
2. Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy. “A Toolkit for Centering Racial Equity Within Data Integration.” The Annie E. Casey Foundation. 2020. https://www.aecf.org/resources/a-toolkit-for-centering-racial-equity-within-data-integration. (This toolkit provides resources to help researchers and organizations pursue racial justice and equity throughout the data lifecycle.)
3. Briney, Kristin, Yoose, Becky, Ockerbloom, John Mark, and Shea Swauger. “A Practical Guide to Performing a Library User Data Risk Assessment in Library-Built Systems.” Digital Library Federation. 2020. doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/V2C3M (This guide provides guidance for assessing the risk and benefits of data collected by libraries about their constituents.)
4. Briney, Kristin, and Becky Yoose. Managing Data for Patron Privacy: Comprehensive Strategies for Libraries. Chicago: ALA Editions, 2022. (This book contains detailed discussions of data management planning and practices for library data with particular emphasis on protecting privacy and confidentiality.)
5. Jones, Kyle, Thomson, John, and Kim Arnold. “Questions of Data Ownership on Campus.” Educause Review. 2014. https://er.educause.edu/articles/2014/8/questions-of-data-ownership-on-campus (This article discusses the complexities of assigning data ownership among the multiple stakeholders at US universities.)
Case Study: The Belfast Project. The Belfast project was an oral history interview study conducted with members of the Irish Republican Army and Loyalist paramilitary groups who participated in the conflict in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s and archived at Boston College’s Burns Library. It demonstrates how promises of confidentiality can be superseded by legal action as well as problems of maintaining secrecy in archival documents.
7. Inckle, Kay. “Promises, Promises: Lessons in Research Ethics from the Belfast Project and ‘The Rape Tape’Case.” Sociological Research Online 20, 1 (2015): 59–71.https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.3570
8. Kara, Helen. “Ethics Versus the Law: The Case of the Belfast Project.” In Ethics, Integrity and Policymaking: The Value of the Case Study, 123–34. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
Case Study: The Facebook Emotional Manipulation Study. This study examined the ability of Facebook posts to influence users’ emotional states without their knowledge or consent. It demonstrates problems of consent with online platforms, ethical issues when working with corporate entities, and weakness in IRB review..
10. Flick, Catherine. “Informed Consent and the Facebook Emotional Manipulation Study.” Research Ethics 12, 1 (2016): 14–28. doi.org/10.1177/1747016115599568.
11. Shaw, David. “Facebook’s Flawed Emotion Experiment: Antisocial Research on Social Network Users.” Research Ethics 12, 1 (2016): 29–34. doi.org/10.1177/1747016115579535.
Fill out our post-lesson survey! This short feedback form is meant to assess the effectiveness of each lesson and its activities in the curriculum.