John and others, There are some sources for you to look at in addition to the AAAS report on Internet Research. Azar, Beth, Monitor on Psychology, April • 2000 • Volume 31 • Number 4 (A Web of research They're fun, they're fast and they save money, but do Web experiments yield quality results?) Siang, Sanyin, Researching ethically with human subjects in cyberspace. Professional Ethics Report, Vol XII, #4, Fall, 1999 Online at http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/sfrl/per/archives.htm Privacy and Ethics Survey among Computer Professionals by Frank Maldacker, Pace University and Stuart A. Varden, Pace University February, 1997 Books Birnbaum, M.H. (Ed.). (2000). "Psychological Experiments on the Internet." San Diego: Academic Press. (A group of chapters that deal with comparability and other issues, some of this is quite good) Birnbaum, M.H. (2000). "Introduction to Behavioral Research on the Internet." Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. (A methods text with a CD of examples and software, no chapter on ethics) Mann, C., & Stewart, F. (2000). Internet communication and qualitative research: A handbook for researching online. Sage Publications. (Has an interesting chapter on the ethical framework of online research. Probably the most relevant information). John White wrote:

All,

I'm starting a lit review about conducting research on the WWW and I don't want to reinvent the wheel. I'm interested in three basic areas:

1) What are the differences between paper & pencil methods versus web (including but not limited to cost, design, response, etc)

2) What, if any, research exists regarding best practices?

3) Surprises, anecdotes, and special skills required to become a seasoned 'net researcher.

I'm hoping someone will be able to identify useful content for each of these.

--JW

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