Resources - Quick Links

For Researchers:

• VSU’s Animal Welfare Assurance
• What Investigators Need to Know About the Use of Animals: National Institutes of Health; U.S. Government Principle IV, 1985.
• Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animal.  National Research Council (NRC).  National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 2011.  Click here to download a PDF of the Guide.  Under copyright agreement, individuals may download only a single copy for their personal use from this website. 
• Working with the IACUC and species-specific training modules – http://www.citiprogram.org
• Recognition and Alleviation of Distress in Laboratory Animals, 2008
• AVMA Guidelines on Euthanasia
• Guidelines for the Use of Fishes in Research.  The American Fisheries Society, the American Institute of Fisheries Research Biologists, and the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 2004
• DeNardo, Dale.  Amphibians as Laboratory Animals,       ILAR Journal, Vol. 37, No. 4, 1995
• Guidelines for Use of Live Amphibians and Reptiles in Field and Laboratory Research (American Association of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists)
• Guidelines to the Use of Wild Birds in Research (Ornithological Council)
• Guidelines of the American Society of Mammologists for the use of wild animals in research, Journal of Mammology, Vol. 92, No. 1, 2011
• Guidelines for the Care and Use of Mammals in Neuroscience and Behavioral Research, 2003 

 For IACUC Members:

• ARENA/OLAW Guidelines for the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
• U.S. Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
• PHS Policy on Humane Care and Treatment of Animals Tutorial
• Animal Welfare Act (7 U.S.C. 2131 et. seq.)
• Animal Welfare Regulations – Implementing regulations of the Animal Welfare Act (Code of Federal Regulations, Title 9, Chapter 1, Subchapter A, Parts 1, 2, and 3)
• Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animal.  National Research Council (NRC).  National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 2011.  Click here to download a PDF of the Guide.  Under copyright agreement, individuals may download only a single copy for their personal use from this website.