Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) (Public Site)
Department of Animal Medicine (UMass Chan Intranet)
Thank you to the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University for allowing us to adapt their IACUC: Searching for Alternatives to Painful Procedures Used on Research Animals resource guide.
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AGRICALA (AGRICultural OnLine Access)
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Agricultural research database created by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) of the USDA. Provides citations to agricultural and allied disciplines. |
| ALTBIB | Created by the National Library of Medicine. Provides access to PubMed/MEDLINE citations relevant to alternatives to the use of live vertebrates in biomedical research and testing. |
| Medline (Ovid) | The Ovid search interface is used to search only MEDLINE records (citations that have been indexed with MeSH terms). |
| PubAg | Released in 2015, full-text publications relevant to the agricultural sciences plus citations to peer-reviewed journal articles. |
| PubMed | The search interface is used to search biomedical literature including MEDLINE (indexed with MeSH terms), plus life science journals, and online books not indexed in MEDLINE. |
| Scopus | Bibliographic database containing peer-reviewed journals, books, and conference proceedings in the scientific, technical, medical, social sciences, and arts & humanities. |
| Resource | Description |
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| Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC) | Established in 1986, part of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Library (NAL). Mission provided in the 1985 amendments to the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) and "...to help the regulated community with employee training and to promote the humane care and use of animals by providing information on alternatives." |
| ALTWEB | Alternatives to Animal Testing (Johns Hopkins) |
| 3R Guide | AWIC (Animal Welfare Information Center) and NORECOPA (Norwegian Reference Center) |
| NCA | Netherlands Centre Alternatives to Animal Use |