Animal Care

Animal Care Links and Resources

• Comprehensive Links

  • University of California, Davis
    Animal Care and Use Administrative Advisory Committee. Includes policy statements, protocol templates, policy and procedure manual excerpts, page of reference documents with links and 11 autotutorials.

  • University of Florida IACUC
    Includes IACUC guidelines, IACUC review process, animal use approval forms, links to other IACUC sites, graphs of USDA trends of animal use for last 3 and last 20 years and information on animals by species.
  • University of Minnesota
    Research Animal Resources. Includes animal use forms in rft and pdf formats and forms for using hazardous or infectious agents. Multiple IACUC guidelines, animal use issues, experimental guidelines, selected references, links to other sites, etc.

  Animal Welfare Information Center

  • The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
  • NIH National Library of Medicine
  • NIH website on Model Organisms for Biomedical Research

• Regulatory Agency Links

  • AAALAC International - Association for Assessment of Laboratory Animal Care

  • APHIS Animal Care Policy Manual
  • OLAW Lab Animal Welfare Policies and Laws
  • NIH Health Research Extension Act of 1985
  • DHHS "The Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals"
  • PHS Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals

• Other Resources

  • USDA Animal Welfare Act
  • Lab Animal Magazine
  • Lab Animals Journal (the International Journal of Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare)
  • Animal Health and Diseases Resources (NetVet)
  • Mouse Brain Library
  • Transgenic Mouse Resources
  • Veterinary Formulary (from University of Minnesota)
  • The Whole Mouse Catalog
  • What Investigators Need to Know About the Use of Animals, OLAW

Updated June 12, 2007 by SAK