Animal Use Alternatives

Alternatives to the use of animals in research, testing, and education. The alternatives may include reduction in the number of animals used, replacement of animals with a non-animal model or with animals of a species lower phylogenetically, or refinement of methods to minimize pain and distress of animals used. (MeSH, introduced in 2001)

Databases

ALTBIB, Alternatives to Animal Testing

Bibliography onr alternatives to the use of live vertebrates in biomedical research and testing

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Animal Welfare Institute Enrichment and Refinement Database

Bibliographic database on refinement of housing systems and handling practices and environmental enrichment for animals kept as laboratory animals, covering species such as nonhuman primates, rodents, rabbits, cats, dogs, ferrets, farm animals, horses, fishes, amphibians and reptiles

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BIOSIS Citation Index

An expansive index to life sciences and biomedical research, covering pre-clinical and experimental research from 1926 to present.

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DB-ALM: Database on Alternative Methods

DB-ALM (formerly called the Scientific Information Service -SIS) is a database on advanced alternative methods in biomedical sciences, providing factual and evaluated (therefore ready-to-use) informative data sheets on advanced non-animal test development and validation for toxicology assessments.

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Journals

Annual Review of Animal Biosciences

Recommended Resource

ISSN

2165-8102

2165-8110

Subject

Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology

Animal Use Alternatives

CiteScore™ (2024) calculated by Scopus: 22.3

Altex: Alternatives to Animal Experimentation

ISSN

1868596X

18688551

Subject

Animal Use Alternatives

CiteScore™ (2024) calculated by Scopus: 7.4

Knowledge Base Articles

Searching for alternatives to animal research

This article describes national and local requirements, resources, and strategies for locating and describing published evidence on alternatives to animal research.