This site provides an interactive short course on experimental design for research scientists working with laboratory animals. The aim is to reduce the number of animals which are used, improve the quality of the science and save time, money and other scientific resources.
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Collaborative Approach to Metanalysis
CAMARADES provides a supporting framework for groups involved in the systematic review and meta-analysis of data.
Topic: Reduction
PREPARE (Planning Research and Experimental Procedures on Animals: Recommendations for Excellence)
Topic: Reduction
Systematic Review Facility
SyRF is a fully integrated online platform for performing systematic reviews of preclinical studies.
Topic: Reduction
The Design of Animal Experiments
"The Design of Animal Experiments" is intended for all research scientists who use laboratory animals, with the aim of helping them to design their own experiments more effectively.
Topic: Reduction
General Database Information
NORINA (A Norwegian Inventory of Alternatives)
NORINA is an English-language database containing information on over 3,500 audiovisual aids that may be used as alternatives or supplements to the use of animals in education and training, including dissection alternatives, at all levels from Junior School to University. The information in the database has been collected from 1991 onwards.
Topic: Alternative methods, Search tools and databases
ECVAM QSAR Model Inventory
EURL ECVAM QSAR Model Inventory of the Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC).
Topic: Alternative methods
Alternatives to laboratory Animals (ATLA)
ATLA is published by FRAME, and has been a key scientific journal in the field of laboratory animal alternatives for more than 30 years. Circulated worldwide, ATLA is distributed to individuals, organisations and institutions. It covers the latest research relating to alternatives to the use of laboratory animals.
Topic: Journals, Teaching
European Consensus-Platform for Alternatives (ECOPA)
Topic: Alternative methods
ALTEX
ALTEX publishes original articles, short communications, and reviews, as well as news and comments, meeting reports, and book reviews. Animal experiments are defined by the editors as all experimental procedures involving the use of animals in testing, research, and education, or to obtain tissues, organs, and other animal derived products that may cause pain or distress to animals..
Topic: Journals
Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME)
Topic: Alternative methods
Animal Welfare
Animal Welfare is an international scientific and technical journal. It publishes the results of peer-reviewed scientific research, technical studies and reviews relating to the welfare of kept animals (eg on farms, in laboratories, zoos and as companions) and of those in the wild whose welfare is compromised by human activities.
Topic: Journals