Thanks, using this terminology, I guess I’m wondering about why different places settled on “inquisitorial” systems vs (whatever the opposite of inquisitorial is)-systems. Naive, it seems like an inquisitorial system would be the obvious way to do it. I’m sure that places with non-inquisitorial systems had reasons for choosing that, but I’m not sure why or what the tradeoffs are.

Well, I have good news for you! If you’re doing pure social science research and you have no affiliation with any federal funded institution, then to the best of my knowledge, there’s absolutely no IRB requirement! (At least as long as you exclude all subjects in Virginia/Maryland/New York.)

Great, I’ll pass this along to a few folks who are interested. The demo page is pretty impressive!

https://chiscraper.github.io/ArXivRoundUpExample.html

To be honest I wasn’t very happy with the word “mentoring” either. What I really wanted was some word with a semantic meaning between “mentoring”, “consulting” and “office hours”? But I liked that “mentoring” emphasizes broader issues. I don’t like that “mentoring” sounds arrogant, but I decided that was a silly reason not to use the word and I’ll just take the reputational hit.

Re your project: I feel honor-bound to stick to my promise to only consider information in the application!