LibGuides: Are You Planning to Use Animals in Your Research?: Starting Points

Starting Points

The key parts of a literature search are: A) how you search [forming a search strategy and choosing key words] and B) where you search [which databases to use].

Searching the Literature for Animal Testing Alternatives: A Tutorial
Excellent tutorial from UNC Health Sciences Library.
Planning a Search: Search Terms and Strategies
A) How to Begin Your Search - Planning a Search and Choosing Search Terms [From the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments]
A step-by-step guide to systematically identify all relevant animal studies
Article in PubMed for searching for Alternatives to Animals to be used in research.
The step-by-step guide will assist in performing a comprehensive literature search and, consequently, improve the scientific quality of the resulting review and prevent unnecessary animal use in the future.