In the informed consent signed by respondents, I promised that the data would only be used by an approved research team. How can I share the data when I made such promises to my respondents?

Unless the informed consent names the members of the research team specifically, an amended Institutional Review Board application that includes a plan for data protection and dissemination can be filed with the lead institution to define the research team as those persons known to the original researchers. Restrictive informed consent may prevent the release of data as public-use, but do not preclude the possibility of a research team that is defined by a group of restricted- or limited-use agreement holders. With such agreements, the researchers using the data are known to ICPSR and to the original research team. Please refer to ICPSR’s Recommended Informed Consent Language for Data Sharing for language examples and more details.