Animal Research Alternatives and Animal Care : Subscription Databases
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AWIC Recommended Databases
AWIC (Animal Welfare Information Center) provides links to databases with information on biomedical research, biological science, animal science, veterinary medicine, fish and wildlife research, toxicology and specialized alternative methods.
For quick links to AWIC recommended databases that require subscription access, please see sections below.
Multidisciplinary Databases
Large multidisciplinary databases are great starting points to search for animal alternatives in the scientific literature. Much of the content in these databases requires subscription access through the UW-Madison Libraries.
- Google ScholarUse Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. *Note, Google Scholar is not an AWIC recommended database. It is a search engine that many researchers find helpful.
- PubMedCovers the biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Also provides access to NCBI databases covering molecular biology. From the NIH's National Library of Medicine.
- ScienceDirectA full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters on topics including physical sciences and engineering; life sciences such as agriculture, biology, biochemistry, and neuroscience; health sciences; and social sciences and humanities.
- ScopusLarge, multidisciplinary database that covers science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Includes tools to track, analyze, and visualize research
- Web of SciencePlatform consisting of several literature search databases designed to support scientific and scholarly research. Includes Biological Abstracts CAB Abstracts, INSPEC.
Specialized Subject Databases
Subject databases may contain literature on your topic not found in other databases. Here are links to AWIC recommended subject databases you can access through the UW-Madison Libraries:
- AGRICOLAAgriculture, veterinary medicine, animal welfare.
- Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries AbstractsFish and other aquatic species.
- ERIC - Educational Resources Information CenterReferences to published and unpublished texts on education topics sourced from journal articles, books, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers, and more.
- Fish, Fisheries & Aquatic Biodiversity WorldwideResearch on fish and other aquaculture species ranging from culture and propagation to genetics, behavior, ecology and habitat.
- International Pharmaceutical AbstractsCovers international literature in applied pharmacology, including drug use and development. Each record is accompanied by an English-language abstract.
- PsycINFOThis resource is database of literature in the behavioral sciences and health. It is especially useful to those interested in neuroscience and cognition, including environmental enrichment.
- PubAgPubAg is a portal to USDA-authored and other highly relevant agricultural research.
- Wildlife and Ecology Studies WorldwideThe world's largest index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians covering all aspects of wildlife and wildlife management.
- Zoological RecordCovers every field of animal biology from biodiversity and the environment to taxonomy and veterinary sciences.