US. Dept of Agriculture: The Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC) PHS/NIH: Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) National Academy of Sciences, Institute for Laboratory Animal Research (ILAR) Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC) IACUC.org (a comprehensive resource of online information) Report of the AVMA Panel on Euthanasia. Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Guidebook, ARENA & OLAW, 2nd Edn., 2002:
Databases (useful for literature searches for duplication and alternatives issues required in preparing your animal protocol): Links to various data bases from USDA/AWIC
Links to various data bases from iacuc.org