Laboratory Animal Resources

3RS

• The 3Rs Collaborative
• Literature Searching: How to Find Animal Use Alternatives
• Experimental Design Assistance
• Alzet Osmotic Pumps
• Animal Welfare Institute; Refinement Database
• Compliance Unit Standard Procedure

Breeding Colonies

• Colony Planning and Breeding Colony Size Planning Worksheet

Compassion Fatigue For Animal Research Personnel

• The 3Rs Collaborative Compassion Fatigue Initiative
• Mental Wellbeing in Laboratory Animal Professionals

Research Models

• Charles River

  Charles River Laboratories offers a free video article on JoVE, "Principles of Rodent Surgery for the New Surgeon".   

• The Jackson Laboratory
  • Webinars - Investigators need to register for upcoming webinars, and the presentation will be provided to those registered. Register for these webinars here. 

  • On-Demand Videos - Investigators need to register to watch. Register and access the videos here. 
• Custom Research Diets
  e.g., specialized nutrition, addition of medication/experimental compounds

Regulatory Sites and References

• The Guide, Eighth Edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (NRC 2011)
• Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare
• Animal Welfare Act

Nature ARRIVE

Nature introduces editorial measures to improve consistency and quality of reporting in life-sciences articles. Central to this initiative is a checklist intended to prompt authors to disclose technical and statistical information in their sessions, and to encourage referees to consider aspects important for research reproducibility.

Access the ARRIVE guidelines ->