Animal Welfare Information Center Newsletter, Winter 1996/1997, Vol. 7 No. 3-4

AWIC Introduces Care CD

The Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC) proudly introduces CARE (Compendium of Animal REsources)- a unique CD-ROM designed to provide quick and easy access to more than 160 documents relating to animal care and use. Prepared primarily for the biomedical research community, veterinarians, animal care regulators, and Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee members, CARE contains Federal legislation and regulations, policies and guidelines of professional scientific societies, bibliographies, and full-text articles and monographs. The information is current through July 1996.

Some of the documents included are:

Title 9 Code of Federal Regulations, Subchapter A, Animal Welfare (1995)
Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (1996)
Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (1996)
Environmental Protection Agency and Food and Drug Administration regulations of animal testing.
Professional organization guidelines and statements including euthanasia, blood removal, transit of animals, care and breeding of nonhuman primates, and health monitoring.
Books, manuals, and conference proceedings on animal care and use in behavioral research, neuroscience experiments, reptile and amphibian studies, education and training manuals for laboratory personnel.
35 bibliographies, resource guides, and fact sheets produced by the Animal Welfare Information Center at the National Agricultural Library
6 volumes of Animal Welfare Information Center Newsletter
18 zoo animal bibliographies and resource guides from the Smithsonian Institution libraries.

Many of the documents are difficult to locate in hardcopy or appear on this disk with special permission from the authors and publishers. Although some of these documents are available from the World Wide Web, the CARE CD is a good way of keeping related documents in one place as an archival resource, and its documents can be downloaded or printed rapidly. The disk contains ReferenceBook and Adobe Acrobat software, making it easily searchable. CARE CD operates in DOS, Mac, Windows 3.1, and Windows 95 environments.

Care CD was funded and developed by the following organizations:

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Agricultural Research Service, National Agricultural Library, AWIC
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Animal Care

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health

Office of Protection from Research Risks, Division of Animal Welfare
Office of Animal Care and Use, Interagency Research Animal Care Commitee

To order, specify number of copies of CARE CD, stock # 001-000-04634-9 at U.S.$35 per disk. Payment may be made by check, Visa, MasterCard, or GPO Deposit Account. Send payment along with your name, address, and daytime telephone number to:

Superintendent of Documents
P.O. Box 371954
Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954
Fax orders to (202) 512-2250; phone orders to (202) 512-1800

Note: Prices include regular domestic postage and handling and are subject to change. International customers please add 25 percent.

For further information, contact: Animal Welfare Information Center, phone: (301) 504-6212, fax: (301) 504-7125,Contact us: http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/contact.php

Please do not send order requests to the Animal Welfare Information Center.

This article appeared in the Animal Welfare Information Center Newsletter, Volume 7, Number 3-4, Winter 1996/1997

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