Guides: Literature Search Help for Animal Research: Resources

Databases/Information Sources

Start your search in one of the databases below. The USDA Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC) recommends searching in at least two databases.

@LT WEB
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health clearinghouse for information on alteratives to animal testing. No longer being updated.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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a leading resource for scholarly research. It supports high-level research in the key areas of academic study by providing journals, periodicals, reports, books and more.
Agricola (Free) This link opens in a new window
(AGRICultural OnLine Access) Updated daily. Contains bibliographic citations with some abstracts covering agriculture, animal husbandry, animal and human nutrition, forestry, plant pathology, plant science, human ecology, agricultural economics and rural sociology. Includes journal articles, books, state extension and experiment station publications and USDA documents.
Agricola (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 2.5 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.

ALTBIB: Bibliography on Alternatives to Animal Testing This link opens in a new window
The intent of the bibliography is to assist in identifying methods and procedures helpful in supporting the development, testing, application, and validation of alternatives to the use of vertebrates in biomedical research and toxicology testing.

This bibliography is produced from MEDLARS database searches, performed and analyzed by subject experts from the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program (TEHIP) of the Specialized Information Services Division (SIS) of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

AltTox.org
Non-animal Methods for Toxicity Testing, funded by the Alternatives Research and Development Foundation
Animal Use Alternatives Thesaurus
National Agricultural Library's Thesaurus for Animal Use Alternatives, use to identify search terms for Agricola or other databases.
CCAC 3Rs Microsite
Canadian Council on Animal Care - Replacement, Reduction & Refinement Alternatives
eMICE
Electronic Models Information, Communication, and Education from the National Cancer Institute

ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
(Educational Resources Information Center) consists of Resources in Education (RIE), which is a file of unpublished documents, and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE), a file of journal article citations from over 750 professional education journals from 1966 to present. Access via the EBSCO search interface.
MasterFILE Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,780 periodicals and full text coverage for nearly 1,860 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals.

Model Organisms for Biomedical Research
National Institutes of Health website
Norwegian Inventory of Alternatives (NORINA)
Over 3,900 audiovisual aids that may be used as alternatives or supplements to the use of animals in teaching and training, including dissection alternatives.

Ovid (Medline) This link opens in a new window
Ovid's interface to Medline, the premier biomedical database
PrimateLit This link opens in a new window
Updated monthly. A bibliographic database of over 200,000 citations to the nonhuman primate literature. Covers all literature that significantly mentions nonhuman primates; journals, books, book chapters, meeting abstracts, newsletters, government documents, and some web sites.

The PrimateLit database is no longer being updated as of November 30, 2010. It was supported by Grant RR15311 from the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health. The database is a collaborative project of the Wisconsin Primate Research Center (Grant RR00167), the Washington National Primate Research Center (Grant RR00166) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.
PsycINFO (Ovid) This link opens in a new window
Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines

PubAg
The portal to USDA-authored and other highly relevant agricultural research from the National Agricultural Library. PubAg is the National Agricultural Library's search system for agricultural information

PubMed (Medline) This link opens in a new window
The National Library of Medicine's interface to Medline, the premier biomedical database
ScienceDirect Journals This link opens in a new window
Provides full text access to journals published by Elsevier Science
SciFinder (Chemical Abstracts) This link opens in a new window
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Provides comprehensive indexing of chemical literature from 1907-present
Scopus This link opens in a new window
an abstracts and citations database of peer-reviewed literature. It allows for discovery of articles, as well as cited reference searching (number of times an article has been cited). It indexes nearly 23,000 peer-reviewed journals (including open access journals), trade journals, book series, conference proceedings, and pa-tents. Scopus is multidisciplinary, covering life and health sciences, agriculture, environment, engineering, technology, social sciences, landscape architecture, urban planning, and more.
Springer LINK This link opens in a new window
Provides full text access to journals published by Springer-Verlag. Email alerts are available if you register.