This one-hour online training, presented by Technical Information Specialists from the National Agricultural Library’s Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC), provides an introduction of how to conduct a literature search for animal use alternatives using bibliographic databases. The regulations of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) require investigators to provide Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUCs) with documentation demonstrating that alternatives to procedures that may cause more than momentary pain or distress to the research animals have been considered and that activities do not unnecessarily duplicate previous experiments.
By the end of this training, attendees will be able to:
Discuss an overview of the AWA
Define the 3Rs (replacement, reduction, and refinement) alternatives
Describe the steps for completing an alternatives literature search
Identify resources available through AWIC
Attendees are not expected to have any prior knowledge of animal use alternatives to be successful in this training.