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Human Research Ethics 2014, V ol. 9(3) I © 2014 SAGE Publications Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav D O I: 10.1177/1556264614540586 jre.sagepub.com
dSAGE Readers and authors will find new features, beginning with this issue o f Journal o f Empirical Research on Hitman Research Ethics (JERHRE ). JERHRE has a new publisher and owner, SAGE Publications. SAG E brings to JERHRE the follow ing features:
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JERHRE subscribers w ill have the option o f choos ing print, electronic, or com bined options for receiv ing the journal. Papers are now published ahead o f print in JERHRE's O nline First section o f the w ebsite. All links to O nline First articles w ill rem ain active and redirect to that final issue version. Back issues w ill be fully integrated into JERHRE's w ebsite and will be listed under the “All Issues” sec tion o f the journal. JERHRE now has a w ider free distribution via H IN A R I to public institutions in developing nations. A uthors and review ers will have an easier w ay to subm it and access w ork under review via S A G E ’s elegant SAG E Track system tailored to JERHRE and providing transparency concerning the progress o f m anuscripts w ithin the review process.
A lso beginning with this issue, JERHRE brings you prac tical ethics advice from Practical Ethicist. Dr. Ethicist’s advice concerns issues that have frequently vexed research ethics com m ittees. In this issue, Dr. Ethicist tackles the ques tion o f how ethics com m ittees should respond to the require m ent that they do “scientific review ” w hen peer review and m erit review have probably already been conducted by experts elsewhere. M ost readers will experience enlighten m ent w ith Practical E thicist’s explanation. “Scientific review ” by the ethics com m ittee is not about im proving the science or m erit o f the proposed research; it is about under standing the science o f the research in sufficient depth to determ ine w hether the criteria for ethics approval are met. W ho is this Practical E thicist anyhow ? In real life, Dr. E thicist is a pair o f experts, Jeffrey C ooper and Lindsay McNair, whose biographical sketches accompany their col umn. Their columns in JERHRE will be based on their exten sive consulting experience, w hich has yielded a large collection o f problematic issues faced by ethics committees. The puzzled researchers and ethics committee members who write to Dr. P. Ethicist are fictionalized versions o f queries Jeff and Lindsay have received. Like good ethnographers, they take appro priate steps to protect the privacy o f the innocent and the guilty. Joan E. Sieber
Editor
Copyright of Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics is the property of University of California Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use.
N e w B e g in n in g s
Human Research Ethics 2014, V ol. 9(3) I © 2014 SAGE Publications Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav D O I: 10.1177/1556264614540586 jre.sagepub.com
dSAGE Readers and authors will find new features, beginning with this issue o f Journal o f Empirical Research on Hitman Research Ethics (JERHRE ). JERHRE has a new publisher and owner, SAGE Publications. SAG E brings to JERHRE the follow ing features:
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• • •
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JERHRE subscribers w ill have the option o f choos ing print, electronic, or com bined options for receiv ing the journal. Papers are now published ahead o f print in JERHRE's O nline First section o f the w ebsite. All links to O nline First articles w ill rem ain active and redirect to that final issue version. Back issues w ill be fully integrated into JERHRE's w ebsite and will be listed under the “All Issues” sec tion o f the journal. JERHRE now has a w ider free distribution via H IN A R I to public institutions in developing nations. A uthors and review ers will have an easier w ay to subm it and access w ork under review via S A G E ’s elegant SAG E Track system tailored to JERHRE and providing transparency concerning the progress o f m anuscripts w ithin the review process.
A lso beginning with this issue, JERHRE brings you prac tical ethics advice from Practical Ethicist. Dr. Ethicist’s advice concerns issues that have frequently vexed research ethics com m ittees. In this issue, Dr. Ethicist tackles the ques tion o f how ethics com m ittees should respond to the require m ent that they do “scientific review ” w hen peer review and m erit review have probably already been conducted by experts elsewhere. M ost readers will experience enlighten m ent w ith Practical E thicist’s explanation. “Scientific review ” by the ethics com m ittee is not about im proving the science or m erit o f the proposed research; it is about under standing the science o f the research in sufficient depth to determ ine w hether the criteria for ethics approval are met. W ho is this Practical E thicist anyhow ? In real life, Dr. E thicist is a pair o f experts, Jeffrey C ooper and Lindsay McNair, whose biographical sketches accompany their col umn. Their columns in JERHRE will be based on their exten sive consulting experience, w hich has yielded a large collection o f problematic issues faced by ethics committees. The puzzled researchers and ethics committee members who write to Dr. P. Ethicist are fictionalized versions o f queries Jeff and Lindsay have received. Like good ethnographers, they take appro priate steps to protect the privacy o f the innocent and the guilty. Joan E. Sieber
Editor
Copyright of Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics is the property of University of California Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use.
