1 Institutions
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1.1 Eligibility
Access to restricted data on Databrary is limited to researchers who are formally authorized by their institutions via the Databrary Access Agreement (DAA) and its Annexes. Only academic, research, government, or health entities are eligible to authorize researchers under the DAA. Institutions must also maintain or uses an ethics or Institutional Review Board with U.S.-equivalent standards that reviews and approves research involving human subjects (or non-human animals where relevant);
Once authorized by their institution, Databrary considers the researchers Authorized Investigators. Institutions decide whether to authorize a specific researcher; the following criteria typically apply:
- Researchers conduct independent, unsupervised, research at the institution;
- Researchers submit funding proposals as lead investigator;
- Researchers have Principal Investigator (PI) status or hold a tenure-track faculty position at the institution;
- Researchers have current training that addresses research ethics with human subject (e.g. CITI training);
- Researchers wish to download and reuse or upload data to Databrary.
Authorized Investigators often supervise the research activities of research staff, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduate students who are not eligible for access to Databrary as Authorized Investigators. Consistent with institutional policies, these individuals may be granted access to Databrary as an Affiliate of a supervising Authorized Investigator.