Alternative Methods

Databases

 

ALTBIB Bibliography on Alternatives to Animal Testing, US National Library of Medicine

http://toxnet.nim.nih.gov.altbib.html

 

Alternatives to Animal Testing on the Web (ALTWEB)

altweb.jhsph.edu

 

Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC)

National Agriculture Library (USA)
www.nal.usda.gov/awic

 

Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights (AVAR)

Alternatives in Education Database
www.avar.org

 

British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection

www.buav.org

 

European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM)

http://ecvam.jrc.it/

 

SIS-ECVAM Scientific Information Service

http://ecvam-sis.jrc.it

 

European Consensus Platform for Alternatives (ECOPA)

http://www.ecopa.eu

 

European Resource Centre for Alternatives in Higher Education (EURCA)

http://www.eurca.org

 

Go3R

Go3R is a "knowledge-based semantic search engine" for alternatives to animal experiments. It is limited to searching PubMed.

www.Go3R.org 

 

Inter-NICHE

42 South Knighton Road, Leicester, LE2 3LP, UK
www.interniche.org

 

National German Centre for Documentation and Evaluation of Alternatives to Animal Experiments 

ZEBET database on alternative to animal experiments on the Internet

http://www.bfr.bund.de/cd/1508

 

National Library of Medicine (USA)

Publishes a regular annotated bibliography on alternatives to animal testing
toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/altbib.html

 

NC3Rs - UK Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research

http://www.nc3rs.org.uk

 

Nordic Information Centre for Alternative Methods (NICA)

http://www.cctoxconsulting.a.se/nica.htm

 

NORINA

A database “containing information on over 3,800 audiovisual aids that may be used as alternatives or supplements to the use of animals in teaching and training, including dissection alternatives at all levels from junior school to University.”
oslovet.veths.no/NORINA

 

The Netherlands Centre for Alternatives to Animal Use (NCA)

http://www.vet.uu.nl/nca/alternatives/alternatieven_database

 

SEFREC 

A database of current serum-free cells and serum-free medias. The database provides users with all necessary information about products, product numbers, contact information etc. 
http://www.sefrec.com/

 

Veterinary Information Portal (VIP)

VIP is a gateway to teaching information and resources on the web. All content is added by academic staff and students of the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Sydney. 
http://vip.vetsci.usyd.edu.au/

 

SEARCHING FOR ALTERNATIVES TO THE USE OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCH

When searching for information on the Internet, a lot of the material can not be accessed by standard search engines. For example documents where the text is inaccessible to the search engines such as information on company intranets and text inside password protected documents or databases. 

FRAME and the AWIC sites give guidance on how to search other databases, such as Medline, for information on Replacement Alternatives.

http://www.frame.org.uk/page.php?pg_id=139

http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/alternatives/tips.htm

The Norwegian Reference Centre for Laboratory Animal Science and Alternatives has also written a comprehensive paper.

Smith, A. J. & Allen, T. 2005, The use of databases, information centres and guidelines when planning research that may involve animals. Animal Welfare, 14, 347-359.