IACUC Resources

Clearinghouse for information on alternatives to animal testing.

Resources for Alternatives to the Use of Live Vertebrates in Biomedical Research and Testing. Assists 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. Contents are a subset of MEDLINE/PubMed records.
NOTE that many federal datasets, websites, and other previously accessible resources are being taken offline to comply with executive orders. Additional information and potential access to archived federal data can be found in this guide.

Alternatives to harming or killing nonhuman animals used in education. Use this database to search for all types of alternatives to the use animals in education, such as CDs, videos, computer simulations, models, and classroom activities for all ages.

Refinement of housing systems and handling practices and environmental enrichment for animals kept as laboratory animals. Covers species such as nonhuman primates, rodents, rabbits, cats, dogs, ferrets, farm animals, horses, fishes, amphibians and reptiles.

Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement Alternatives

Data set on advanced alternative methods in biomedical sciences.
DB-ALM (formerly called the Scientific Information Service -SIS) is provided by the EURL ECVAM, an international center for coordinating the validation of alternative methods, providing advice on theoretical and practical aspects of the validation of new tests, and the current state of validation of alternative methods for use in toxicology and the biosciences in general.

Alternatives in education products.

NOTE that many federal datasets, websites, and other previously accessible resources are being taken offline to comply with executive orders. Additional information and potential access to archived federal data can be found in this guide.

The NCI Mouse Repository is an NCI-funded resource for mouse cancer models and associated strains. The repository makes strains available to all members of the scientific community (academic, non-profit, and commercial). NCI Mouse Repository strains are cryoarchived and distributed as frozen germplasm (embryos and/or sperm).
NOTE that many federal datasets, websites, and other previously accessible resources are being taken offline to comply with executive orders. Additional information and potential access to archived federal data can be found in this guide.

Norway's National Consensus Platform for the advancement of "the 3 Rs" Provides a search feature that covers all of their resources, including the Norina (audiovisuals) database.

A tool to provide information on the status of alternative methods as they progress from scientific protocols to validation for being used in a regulatory context.

A database of online information for zebrafish researchers