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Useful Links

College Departments Involved with Animal Use

• Animal Biosafety Info
• Center for Comparative Medicine and Research (CCMR)
• Environmental Health and Safety
• Office of Sponsored Projects
• Occupational Medicine

Alternatives

• The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives
• European Union Reference Laboratory for Alternatives to Animal Testing (EURL ECVAM)
• Website of Alternatives Databases
• Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC)
• USDA Worksheet and Instructions for Alternatives Literature Searching
• Alternatives to Animal Testing Bibliography, National Library of Medicine
• AGRICOLA  (Agricultural OnLine Access, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
• MEDLINE  (National Library of Medicine)
• TOXNET (National Library of Medicine)
• UC Center for Animal Alternatives  (Databases for Alternatives)

Euthanasia

• AVMA Guidelines on Euthanasia

Literature Searches

• USDA Worksheet and Instructions for Alternatives Literature Searching
• USDA Policy #11: Painful and Distressful Procedures
• USDA Policy #12: Consideration of Alternatives to Painful/Distressful Procedures

Publication of Research

• ARRIVE Guidelines (Animal Research: Reporting In Vivo Experiments)published by the NC3Rs are available here.

These guidelines identify 20 areas that need to be addressed within a paper containing animal research. Many journals are now following these guidelines and may not publish papers that have not followed the guidelines.
 
Training 

• (CITI) Laboratory Animal Welfare Course
• OLAW Training Videos

Non-pharmaceutical grade drug /agents

• For human drugs these can be searched at Orange Book: Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations
• For veterinary drugs they can be searched at: FDA Animal Approved Drug Products

Databases

• AGRICOLA  (AGRICultural OnLine Access, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
• MEDLINE  (National Library of Medicine)
• TOXNET (National Library of Medicine)
• UC Center for Animal Alternatives  (Databases for Alternatives)

Regulatory Agencies
NIH

• Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare Topic Index
• Frequently Asked Questions PHS Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
• Public Health Service Policy on Human Care and Use of Laboratory Animals

USDA

• Animal Welfare Act
• Manual and Guidelines

Informational Resources

• AAALAC
• AALAS
• AVMA
• IACUC.org
• MSMR
• NABR
• NIH website on Model Organisms for Biomedical Research
• SCAW
• Transgenic Mouse Resources
• The National Academies Press