Remote Human-Subject and Community-Based Research

• John Hopkins Guide to Human Subjects Research During Covid-19 Pandemic  

• APA (American Psychological Association) Guide toward Doing Research During Covid-19 Pandemic

• Nature’s Guide to Safely Doing Essential Research 

• Tufts Guide: COVID-19 Information & Research Resources

• Doing fieldwork in a pandemic (Crowd-sourced list edited by Deborah Lupton)

 Covid:

• Covid-19 Open Research Dataset 

• Our World in Data 

• NIH 

• Europa 

• Welch Medical Library Data Resources

• UCLA Law - Prisons DB 

• VIRUS Study Registry 

General

• Europa: EU Open Data Portal 

• The NIH Common Data Elements (CDE) Repository

• Our World in Data 

• World Bank Open Data 

• US Census Bureau 

• ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)

• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) 

• Policy Map 

• List of Healey Library subscribed databases for finding data

• HIPAA Compliant Zoom: IT does not subscribe to any HIPAA compliant zoom licenses, but will work with faculty and departments to purchase as needed.

• Demonstrate care and concern for the participants safety and confidentiality

• Check with people you need to talk to make sure you are using methods that they can access.

• Consider allowing for written answers so the participant doesn’t need to worry about being overheard 

•  Make it easier for people to talk without disclosing information to anyone within earshot (yes/no answers, multiple choice)

• Full list of software that can be downloaded through UMass Boston

• NVivo12 for qualitative analysis: Free download — Write software@umb.edu to request activation code and download link. Note that we have limited licenses and may not be able to fulfill your request. License expires 10/1/20

• MATLAB: No cost. Can be installed on university-owned computers and personal standalone computers owned by staff and faculty

• R: R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS.