Alternatives to animal testing, research, and teaching

ALTERNATIVES TO ANIMAL TESTING, RESEARCH, AND TEACHING

WORLD WIDE WEB RESOURCES

MAJOR WEB RESOURCES

ALTBIB Alternatives to the use of Live Vertebrates in Biomedical Research and Testing. National Library of Medicine. Search ALTBIB and PubMed databases, or run "live" PubMed searches on many selected topics.

Alternatives in Education Database Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights (AVAR). Davis, CA. Database contains information on various alternatives to using or killing animals at all levels of education. This site also provides access to the Alternatives in Veterinary Medical Education newsletter and other alternatives publications.

Altweb Alternatives to Animal Testing on the Web. Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing. Serves as a gateway to alternatives news, information, and databases. Includes Altweb Pain Management (Anesthesia/Analgesia) database and Altweb Humane Endpoints database.

Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC). National Agricultural Library, USDA. Provides information for improved animal care and use in research, teaching, and testing. Includes sections on alternatives, literature searches, databases, government and legal resources.

Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT). Johns Hopkins University. Information about the Center�s activities, grants, and workshops. Links to other animal welfare and alternatives sites.

FRAME Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments. Nottingham, UK. Alternatives information and legislation, links to organizations, databases, and many other Internet resources.

NORINA Norwegian Inventory of Audiovisuals. Norwegian Reference Centre for Laboratory Animal Science & Alternatives. Search the NORINA database for audiovisual alternatives to the use of animals in teaching, or go to the Information on Alternatives Databases page for alternatives in other areas of animal use.

UC Center for Animal Alternatives (UCCAA). University of California Center for Animal Alternatives. UC Davis. Searching for alternatives, publications, online resources, related links.

GUIDES, INSTRUCTION, SEARCH TIPS

AWIC Workshops Animal Welfare Information Center, USDA. An online version of the AWIC workshop �Meeting the Information Requirements of the Animal Welfare Act� plus information on AWIC workshops held at the National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD.

A Guide to Searching for Alternatives to the Use of Laboratory Animals Krys Bottrill, FRAME (Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments), UK. A detailed guide that covers search basics, terms, and strategies; Internet search engines; database selection and access.

Sources of Information About Alternatives Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, University of California, Santa Barbara. Explains the 3 Rs (replacement, reduction, refinement), conceptualizing and conducting an alternatives search, includes a resource list.

Tips for Searching for Alternatives to Animal Research and Testing Cynthia P. Smith, Animal Welfare Information Center, USDA.

Why Conduct Literature Searches for Alternatives? Michael Kreger, Animal Welfare Information Center, USDA.

FREE-ACCESS DATABASES ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB

CRIS Current Research Information System, USDA. Ongoing and recently completed research summaries for projects sponsored by USDA, state agricultural experiment stations, land grant universities, and other institutions.

CRISP Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects, Office of Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health. A searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects.

NAL Catalog (AGRICOLA) National Agricultural Library, USDA. Search in "Articles" for citations to agricultural literature in journal articles, book chapters, short reports, reprints.

NLM Gateway U.S. National Library of Medicine. A Web-based system that lets users search simultaneously in multiple NLM retrieval systems and databases, including MEDLINE/PubMed, MEDLINEplus (consumer health information), TOXLINE, ClinicalTrials.gov, Meeting Abstracts, and the NLM Catalog (books, serials, AVs).

PubMed U.S. National Library of Medicine. For access to citations in MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, and additional life science journals, back to the 1950's. Links to full-text journals at websites of participating publishers. Also provides access to molecular biology databases for nucleotides, proteins, genomes, structures, and more.

TOXNET Toxicology Data Network, Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program, National Library of Medicine. A cluster of databases on toxicology data and literature, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

DATABASES AVAILABLE TO THE ISU COMMUNITY

AGRICOLA National Agricultural Library.

BIOSIS Previews. BIOSIS. (Biological Abstracts)

CAB Abstracts CAB International. (Covers the agricultural and biosciences literature worldwide).

MEDLINE National Library of Medicine.

PsycINFO American Psychological Association. (Psychological Abstracts).

SciFinder Scholar CAS, American Chemical Society. (Chemical Abstracts).

Web of Science Institute for Scientific Information. (Includes Science Citation Index Expanded).

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