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)