Searching For Alternatives
IACUC review of a protocol will always consider the 3Rs: reducing the number of animals used to the minimum required for the study, replacing animals with less sentient or non-animal models whenever possible, and refining all practices to provide the best animal welfare possible. We recommend the following resources for your literature searches:
- Animal Welfare Institute's Refinement database
- The National Centre for the 3Rs (NC3Rs)
- North American 3Rs Collaborative (NA3RsC)
- Norway's National Consensus Platform for the Advancement of the 3Rs (Norecopa)
- UC Davis: Alternatives and Searching the Literature for Animal Research
- Pubmed
- Procedures With Care
- Flaire Learning
- Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC)