- Comprehensive website contains News Flashes and Archives, Policies and Laws Guidance,
General Information, List of Institutions holding Animal Welfare Assurances, list
of useful Links.
- A tutorial for new animal care and use committee members, institutional administrators,
investigators, animal care personnel, veterinarians, or others who are interested
in learning about the PHS Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.
- Animal Welfare's Mission is to provide leadership in establishing acceptable standards
of humane animal care and treatment and to monitor and achieve compliance with the
Animal Welfare Act through inspections, education, and cooperative efforts.
- Division of the USDA National Agricultural Library, providing information for improved
animal care and use in research, teaching, and testing.
- The CITI Program is a subscription service providing research ethics education
to all members of the research community. To participate fully, learners must be affiliated
with a CITI participating organization.
- AALAS advances responsible care and use of laboratory animals to benefit people
and animals.
- The Institute for Laboratory Animal Research (ILAR) prepares authoritative reports
on subjects of importance to the animal care and use community serves as a clearinghouse
for information about animal resources develops and makes available scientific and
technical information on laboratory animals and other biological research resources
to the scientific community, institutional animal care and use committees (IACUCs),
the federal government, science educators and students, and the public.
- SCAW's ongoing activities include providing information about, for example, regulations
and guidelines, ethical issues, performance standards, protocol review, facility design,
the relationship between people and animals in a research setting, and alternative
research methods. SCAW organizes and conducts conferences and seminars that explore
scientific and ethical matters related to research activities and animal well-being
- these meetings are sponsored by SCAW and also in cooperation with other national
and regional organizations. SCAW also provides educational information and materials
to teachers and students on all levels who are exploring these issues. SCAW's publications
are widely accepted.
- PRIM&R has been committed to the advancement of strong research programs and to
the consistent application of ethical precepts in both medicine and research. Through
national conferences and published reports, it has addressed a broad range of issues
in research, clinical practice, ethics, and the law.
