Resources for Animal Ethics

Library Catalogue

Use keywords--advanced boolean option--search to locate books, videos and other material held in the Library:

• animal and welfare
• animal and experimentation
• laboratory and animal*
• pain and animals
• animal* and research and ethic*

Multimedia items available include:

• Careful how you hold me: an insight into caring for laboratory animals CD ROM (call number: 636.0885/18)

Journal articles

Examples of relevant fulltext journal articles available in Library databases:

• New Scientist, April 4, (1992), 'Animal experiments: the great debate (series of articles)'. (via Expanded Academic ASAP)

More articles

To find other articles, search within the suggested Library databases below, using keywords such as animals AND research AND ethics (or keywords similar to those suggested for Catalogue searches above).

To refine your search, look for your keywords within the subject heading field.

• APAFT
• Expanded Academic ASAP
• Lexis
• Medline
• Philosopher's Index
• Project MUSE
• Proquest5000
• ScienceDirect
• Sociological Abstracts
• Web of Science (citation indexes)

Web sites

• National Health and Medical Research Council (NHRMC) - Australian
• Animal Ethical Issues - NHMRC
• Animal Welfare Information Center(AWIC) - U.S. Department of Agriculture
• Animal Welfare Unit - NSW Agriculture
• Australian and New Zealand Council for the Care of Animals in Research and Teaching (ANZCCART) - includes ANZCCART News (quarterly newsletter)
• Guide for finding biological sciences information - UOW Library guide

More on the Web

• Advanced Google search on "animal research" and ethics (excluding .com or .co sites)
• Advanced Alltheweb search on "animal research" and ethics (excluding .com or .co sites)

For further help, contact your Faculty Librarian.

Last reviewed: 5 July, 2007