This question comes up occasionally, so we thought we'd provide some guidance here. We want to support research, but must balance that with other factors.
Unless a particular listserv has a rule against it, members of a ACBS listserv may post a survey for IRB approved (ethics approved) studies, one time on an ACBS listserv. You may not post a survey on behalf of another person. Also, this does not mean that you may post to it every listserv you are a member of. As many ACBS members are members of multiple listservs, this kind of cross posting (sending the same message to multiple lists) is not permitted for surveys, and should generally be done very sparingly.
If this ever becomes too overwhelming for our listservs, this permission to post a study survey one time may change.
Can ACBS Chapter or SIGs post surveys?
ACBS Chapters and SIGs can survey their members on ACBS listservs, but only with pre-approval of the survey by ACBS. Limited, anonymous member data is available for ACBS Chapters and SIGs already. If you are a Chapter/SIG representative, please just reach out to an ACBS staff person if you would like to know more about your membership demographics.. If you expect that ACBS does not already have the information you're interested in collecting, please send a copy of your survey (with introductory email/text) to an ACBS staff person so that they can get it reviewed for you. ACBS is committed members' privacy and data protection.
Incorporated ACBS Chapters may survey their own members, as they see fit, without ACBS approval, when not using an ACBS hosted listserv. (Direct emailing, private listserv, etc.) Election proceedings and other forms of voting are always an exception to this.