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Norecopa,Norway’s 3Rcentre: norecopa.no
USDAAnimalWelfareInformationCenter
awic.nal.usda.gov
norecopa.no:aglobaloverview of quality resources within
laboratory animalscienceandwelfare
AdrianSmith 1 ,KarinaSmith 1,ØyvindWærenskjold2 & TimAllen3
15A,4639Kristiansand,Norway;3 Animal
Welfare InformationCenter,NationalAgriculturalLibrary,10301BaltimoreAvenue,Beltsville,Maryland20705,USA
1 Norecopa,P.O.Box750Sentrum,0106Oslo,Norway;2 Bitfarm,Vigeveien
Quality resources inLaboratoryAnimalScience:where doIfind them?
Increased focus on the 3Rs (Replacement,Reduction &Refinement) inLaboratoryAnimalScienceand
regulatory demands mean that scientists,committee members andanimalhousestaffneed easy
access torelevantresources.
Norecopa hasbuilt abrand-new website andintelligentsearch engine which provide aglobal
overview of selected quality resources.Thesite consists of three majordatabasesandapprox. 500
webpages.
Thesearch engine returns hitsfromallthese resources simultaneously. Alarge range of filterscan be
applied tonarrow the listof hits.Allsearches generate unique webaddresses (URLs),making iteasy
todocument the searches which havebeen performed.
3RGuide databaseandwebpages
Databases,Guidelines,Regulations, Information Centres,Journals,E-maillists
norecopa.no
Audiovisual products
Textbooks
TextBase
NORINA
Please contact AdrianSmith(adrian.smith@norecopa.no)formoreinformation.
We gratefully acknowledge the financial supportof DagStiansen’s Foundation,LaboratoryAnimals Ltd.,the NordicSociety
against Painful AnimalExperiments,NovoNordisk,the ScottishAccreditation Boardandthe USDepartmentof Agriculture.
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