General Informational Sources
Animal Welfare Information Center (National Agriculture Library)
Animal Welfare Act and Regulations, Federal
NAL'S Database listing. For fee based resources check the library's Find Resources link to see if we have access.
Animal Welfare (Animal Plant Health Inspection Service)
Databases
Start with SuperSearch, select the Agriculture radio button
This will do a simple search of several of the licensed databases. It is an excellent way to discover which resources work for a topic.
The try the Newspapers + Pop Mags SuperSearch category will lead to information covered in the popular mediaProquest Newspapers and the Lexis-Nexis Academic should be useful for finding non-research information.
Other useful resources include:
Agricola
AGRIS (FAO)
Academic Search Premier
Associations Unlimited
Biological Abstracts
Biological & Agriculture Index Plus
Ethnic News Watch
use terms such as Animals AND social life & customs or
Animals AND religion
Google Scholar
Lexis-Nexis Academic
Lexis-Nexis Congressional
Lexis-Nexis Statistical
MEDLINE
PubMed
Science Citation IndexFor tips on how to use SuperSearch, see Five Ways to SuperSearch Happiness!
To read descriptions of each database go to the SuperSearch page and select Find Resources.
Theicon will give a description of each resource.
Reference materials
Encyclopedia of animal rights and animal welfare
Reference HV4708 .E53 1998Encyclopedia of bioethics
Reference Stacks QH332 .E52 2004Other resources
Animal Legal & Historical Web Center
Americans for Medical Progress - Animal Research
Humane Society of the United States - Animals in Research
Rutger's School of Law - Animal Rights Law Project
To locate organizations use
Scholarly Journals vs. Trade Publications vs. Popular Magazines
There is more to research than Google or Yahoo...
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