Additional Reading and Resources for Animal Research

See the list of current publications and multi-media resources in the HARPO Reading Library 

 

Animal Use and Research Tutorials

Tutorial on the PHS Policy on Human Care and Use of Laboratory Animals- Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW)

Enhancing Humane Science/Improving Animal Research—Johns Hopkins University - Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing

University of Minnesota Animal Use Tutorial

How to write an application involving research animals-  National Institutes of Health - This tutorial explains the procedures for writing an application and then applying for and maintaining an NIH grant application for research that uses animals.

 

Searching for Animal Alternatives

 

The Animal Welfare Center (AWIC) part of the National Agricultural Library (NAL), provides information and publications covering many aspects of animal welfare. It provides information accessing databases to perform searches for animal alternatives.

 

Animal Use and Care Publications

 

Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals - Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources (ILAR)

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Guidebook (2002)—Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW)   (PDF - Requires Acrobat Reader 6.0)

Guidelines for the Care and Use of Mammals in Neuroscience and Behavioral Research - Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources (ILAR)   (PDF - Requires Acrobat Reader 6.0)

Report of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Panel on Euthanasia (2000)

A guide for the laboratory use of zebrafish —University of Oregon

Guidelines for the Use of Fishes in Research - American Fisheries Society, 2004

Guidelines to the Use of Wild Birds in Research - Ornithological Council, 1997

Guidelines for use of Live Amphibians and Reptiles in Field and Laboratory Research - American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 2004

Resource Book for the Design of Animal Exercise Protocols - American Physiological Society (APS)

American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM) Task Force Report on Rodent Euthanasia

PHS Policy guidance to Assured institutions clarifying current requirements regarding the use of carbon dioxide (CO2) as a euthanasia agent for small laboratory animals - July 17, 2002

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Last updated 02/07/2007