| TalkBank | 
| Access Levels |
Researchers need to determine the level of access restrictions appropriate for the wishes of their participants and their data type. TalkBank supports these three levels:
- Registered required access. This is the basic level requested for NIH-supported databases. It only requires that users set up an account with an email and password to identify themselves.
- Corpus specific access. This level of access is used for most of the clinical corpora for which access is restricted to faculty, SLPs, or postdocs. Students must rely on their faculty advisors for access.
- Committee approved access. This is the most restrictive level. It is used by HomeBank and PsychosisBank and requires CITI training and an interview to discuss data usage.
By default, the language used in informed consent forms should specify that "access is provided to registered researchers or clinicians".
None of these options specify a time at which the data will be destroyed. There are no plans for data destruction for TalkBank data.
Apart from these three levels, contributors may specify an embargo period of no more than two years during which data will be integrated into the system, but not made available to users. It is also possible to contribute data for archiving without any current plans to share the data.