The ethics commission of the Linguistic Society of Germany defines at its duty the task to assess the  ethical validity of experimental methods in linguistics. A detailed description of this task can be found in the Ordnung of the ethics commission (German version only).

If you want to contact the ethics commission, please consult the Hinweise zur Antragstellung first (German version only).

There are fees to pay for an ethics vote, which will be billed after your request. Requests must be sent in written form (or electronically as a single pdf file) to the Chair of the commission:

Prof. Dr. Martin Haase
Universität Bamberg
Romanische Sprachwissenschaft
An der Universität 5
96045 Bamberg
ethik.romling@uni-bamberg.de
 
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The ethics commission of the DGfS supports attempts for sustainable data archives. Please consult the website of the German Science Foundation (DFG) for technical and jurisdictional aspects of spoken and written corpora: 

http://www.dfg.de/download/pdf/foerderung/grundlagen_dfg_foerderung/informationen_fachwissenschaften/geisteswissenschaften/standards_sprachkorpora.pdf

http://www.dfg.de/download/pdf/foerderung/grundlagen_dfg_foerderung/informationen_fachwissenschaften/geisteswissenschaften/standards_recht.pdf