Policy on posting links to studies

We receive a lot of messages on this, so here is our policy. If you have a study for which you're seeking volunteers, you don't need to ask our permission if and only if the following conditions are met:

• The study is a part of a University-supported research project

• The study, as well as what you want to post here, have been approved by your University's IRB or equivalent

• You include IRB / contact information in your post

• You have not posted about this study in the past 6 months.

If you meet the above, feel free to post. Note that if you're not offering pay (and even if you are), I don't expect you'll get much volunteers, so keep that in mind.

Finally, on the issue of possible flooding: the sub already is rather low-content, so if these types of posts overwhelm us, then I'll reconsider this policy.