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Educational Institutions (cont’d)
•3. See if your university's Institutional Review Board (IRB) has formalized a process for review of output from data collected under a pledge of confidentiality.  If not, then perhaps a cross-disciplinary DRB could serve as an ad hoc committee to make recommendations about release to the IRB.
•4. Create a cross-disciplinary Research Data Center on campus. 
•An open question:  Can the institutions that fund most of the social science research (National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health) provide grants to establish such Centers?
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