Searchable database of references from the Livestock Issues Database (LIBD) and the Animal Behavior & Welfare Research Centre Database. Updated quarterly.

Over 600 journal citations including some with links to the full text documents. Also includes links to regulatory websites.

Searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions. Maintained by the Office of Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health.

Produced by Thomson ISI, includes recent listings of scientific literature in Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Life Sciences, Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences, and Engineering, Computing & Technology. Requires password.

Lists USDA-sponsored projects.

International report that lists factual databases related to alternatives, what they offer, lack, and recommendations for improvements.

Multidatabase system vendor. Requires password.

Department of Defense database developed from biomedical research, testing or training programs federally funded on an annual basis. Coverage includes: infectious diseases, biological hazards, toxicology, medical chemical defense, medical biological defense, clinical medicine, clinical surgery, physical protection, training, graduate medical education and instruction.

Department of Energy database of 60,000 scientific and technical reports. Free acceess to full-text and bibliographic records of research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.

Defense Technical Information Center contains unclassified U.S. Department of Defense technical reports and research and development summaries. An extension of DTIC, Scientific and Technical Information Network (STINET) Service, provides access to all unclassified, unlimited citations to documents added into DTIC from late December 1974 to the present.

Ensembl is a searchable database resulting from a joint project between EMBL-EBI and the Sanger Centre to provide access to sequences in human chromosomes.

Compiled by Euroscience, in co-operation with the Library of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, The Netherlands and under the auspices of the European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education (E.A.E.V.E.). Updated monthly.

Descriptions, awards and summaries of federally funded research. Search across databases from the Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation with a single query.

A database of comprehensive records of tumor incidences in different primate species.

Contains access to medical and biomedical databases such as MEDLINE, AIDSLINE, CancerLit, BIOETHICSLINE.

Produced by The Norwegian Reference Centre for Laboratory Animal Science and Alternatives. Describes databases addressing all aspects of Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement of animal experiments.

Wisconsin Regional Primate Center listing of primatology organizations, population management groups, and other information resources.

ILAR listing of acronyms.

Search over 30,000 statistical tables from over fifty U.S. Department of Health and Services publications. Publications include vital statistics reports, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advance Data statistics, and the National Center for Health Statistics documents. Password required.

MEDLINE®(Medical Literature, Analysis, and Retrieval System Online) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains over 12 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. It can be searched via PubMed® or the NLM Gateway.

The NTP is an interagency program consisting of relevant toxicology activities of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH/NIEHS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (CDC/ NIOSH), and the Food and Drug Administration's National Center for Toxicological Research (FDA/NCTR). Currently three databases are available for searching: The Individual Studies Database--search studies by chemical name; The Pathology Incidence Rates Database--search chronic and prechronic studies collected in the Toxicology Database Management System; and The Individual Animal Pathology Database--search for chronic studies collected in the NTP's Toxicology Database Management System and Carcinogenesis Bioassay Data System.

The NLM Gateway is a Web-based system that lets users search simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It allows users of NLM services to initiate searches from one Web interface, providing "one-stop searching" for many of NLM's information resources or databases.

Produced by The Norwegian Reference Centre for Laboratory Animal Science and Alternatives. Lists over 3600 audiovisual resources with contact information for use as adjuncts and alternatives to using animals in education. Includes 3-D models, computer simulations, videos, films, slides, and other media.

Accessed via the NLM Gateway. Contains citations published in the 1958 through 1965, Cumulated Index Medicus and covers the fields of medicine, preclinical sciences, and allied health sciences. Subject searching of this file is available through key words (the original Medical Subject Headings, MeSH, assigned back in 1960-65) and text phrases. Unlike MEDLINE, this file contains no abstracts nor MeSH heading (MH) field data from NLM's current controlled vocabulary.

Multidatabase vendor. Requires password.

PrimateLit is a bibliographical database for primatology and exists through a cooperative agreement between the Washington (WaNRPC) and Wisconsin (WRPC) National Primate Research Centers. The database, comprising over 165,000 records dating from 1940, allows primate researchers to do their bibliographic research on their home or office computers.

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. The PubMed database is made available via the NCBI Entrez retrieval system. Entrez is the text-based search and retrieval system used at NCBI for all major databases including MEDLINE, Nucleotide, and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, OMIM, and many others.

This information resource is a merger of the two databases on refinement & enrichment for non-primate and primate laboratory animals. It disseminates reference material on all aspects of refinement of housing and handling conditions and environmental enrichment for ALL animals kept in research, testing and teaching institutions. This database comprises published articles, abstracts, book chapters, books, photos, and videotapes. Entries have been read/screened and annotated by the authors to guarantee their relevance to the topic.

An internet search tool developed by Elsevier Science concentrating on sites that contain scientific content only and searches both Web and membership sources.

TEXTBASE

Produced by The Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Laboratory Animal Unit. Searchable database of approximately 740 current text books within the field of laboratory animal science.

Access to toxicology databases including RTECS, Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances, and CCRIS, Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System.

13,000 dosages of veterinary drugs. Requires password.

VetGate

Free access to a searchable catalogue of Internet sites covering animal health.

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