The IRE Digital Library

The mission of the Internet Research Ethics Digital Library is to collect articles and other scholarly publications discussing important ethical issues, concerns, and best practices for gathering data from human subjects on the Internet.The IRE digital repository will, for the first time, bring together materials from a wide variety of disciplines and will allow scholars and Institutional Review Boards to access information previously unavailable in any single resource. The IRE digital collection will pull together the disciplinarily disparate literature on Internet Research Ethics into one searchable and annotated digital library.

To access the IRE Digital Library, you must be registered with the Internet Research Ethics Commons. If you are not already registered, you may do so here. If you are already registered, be sure to log in.

Once you have logged in, click here to proceed to the IRE Digital Library.

Digital Library Details

The Internet Research Ethics Digital Library has been constructed using ContentDM Version 5.2.0.176 and is hosted on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Golda Meier Library server. Articles and other printed publications have been scanned at 300dpi and are accessible as PDF files. Text has been made fully searchable using ABBYY FineReader 9.0’s OCR software. Metadata fields have been customized specifically for materials related to Internet research ethics and are mapped directly to Dublin Core elements.