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- US Department of Agriculture (USDA):
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- AGRICOLA via Community of Science
-- UCSD Restricted
- Database covering organisms with agricultural significance. Alternative access available
outside UCSD directly from the National Agriculture Library.
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Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
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Animal Care Home Page - includes IACUC guidelines, enforcement reports, etc.
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Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC) - includes copies of relevant legislation & regulations
- US National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council
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Institute for Laboratory Animal Research (ILAR)
includes full-text reports, a Research Database, and an excellent library of relevant links.
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Laboratory Animal Research: Online books from the National Academy Press
features a dozen different full-text books, including the
Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory
Animals, 1996 edition - from ILAR and the National Academy Press.
- US National Institutes of Health:
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Office of Animal Care and Use
Includes the ARAC Guidelines, regulations, NIH policies
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National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) - Comparative Medicine area
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Office for Protection from Research Risks (OPRR) - covers both human and animal subjects
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Tutorial on the PHS Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.
Societies & Associations
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American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS)
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Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC)
Selected Animal Welfare and Animal Research Sites
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AltWeb
- Hosted by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, this site features content from
around the world, including full-text reports, educational and historical resources.
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Animals in Science
- The Web site of the Minnesota chapter of AALAS (see above), this is an excellent site for public education concerning
the use of animals in scientific research and even class pets.
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Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME)
- European organization for research into animal alternatives. Helpful for locating European regulations and counterparts
to efforts in the US.
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UC Center for Animal Alternatives
- The University of California's centralized support service for animal alternatives information, this site includes helpful guides to doing literature searches for animal alternatives in
MELVYL databases, as well as other information guides and publications of interest to UC researchers and
educators.
Other Starting Points
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BIOSITES: Animal Welfare
- BIOSITES is the Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library's service listing high-quality evaluated Web sites - this is
the animal welfare section.
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World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Animal Health, Well-Being, and Rights
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Yahoo: Animal Experimentation
- These two sites are collections of Web sites on animal experimentation and animal rights.
Good for pointers to organizations and activists on both sides of the debate.
Library Searches
The following links will send you to the UCSD Libraries' ROGER catalog and
run a search for books, whole journals, and other items on that subject. You can then use the
"Limit" option on the ROGER screen to narrow down the search by date, type of material,
library location, etc. These subject headings are presented here as good starting points.
Once in ROGER, you may want to try other search strategies to meet your particular needs.
The next link will execute a MEDLINE search in PubMed on the major Medical Subject Heading:
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Animal Testing Alternatives.
There are well over 300 articles on the topic, but the
most recent articles are displayed first. These are articles about the topic of alternatives,
not necessarily articles about particular research applications.
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Internet Resources