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eIRB Legacy Retirement

The Northwestern University IRB Office is retiring its eIRB Legacy system. Released in 2005, the Legacy system was the institution’s first iteration of an electronic submission and review system for human research. The IRB Office has not used the Legacy system to conduct reviews of active research studies since 2014 and will remove it from service in August 2024.  

Study Materials in eIRB Legacy

The system and its contents will no longer be available in August 2024. Please download all study materials immediately and save them to a secure location. Principal Investigators and their research teams should maintain their regulatory study files outside the IRB electronic submission systems as eIRB Legacy does not meet the regulatory requirements for storing research records. If there are any documents you require that are housed in eIRB Legacy, including documents/materials for studies that originated in eIRB Legacy and transitioned to eIRB+, they should be downloaded to an external location and stored. Once the eIRB Legacy system is retired, you will not be able to access it.

Questions?

If you have questions about the retirement of our eIRB Legacy system, please contact the IRB Office at irb@northwestern.edu. 

Accessing eIRB Legacy

If you require access to eIRB Legacy, please visit the eIRB legacy site and register using your NetID and password. Anyone with existing access to an eIRB Legacy study (the PI, Study Coordinator, Co-Investigator, or Study Team Member) can grant study access to another user, without contacting the IRB Office. An authorized person can log into eIRB Legacy, access a study’s workspace, and use the ‘Edit Study Access’ activity to grant access to other users.

Helpful Resources

eIRB Legacy Transition Resource

 eIRB Legacy Login Page

Please also review the eIRB Legacy Transition Resource guide for step-by-step instructions on gaining access to eIRB Legacy and downloading IRB-approved study materials.