The Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC) website provides information for improved animal care and use in research, teaching, and testing. United States Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library.

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Guidebook, 2nd Edition, 2002, Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. This guide provides a very useful reference to assist institutions in implementing their education and training programs that will meet the expectations of the Public Health Service Office for Protection from Research Risks.

History of Animal Welfare Act: Historical Perspectives and Future Directions Symposium Proceedings, September 12, 1996. The proceedings of this symposium provide a thirty-year retrospective of the Animal Welfare Act and its resulting regulations.

Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website provides resources and information pertaining to NIH-sponsored research that uses animals.

Mukerjee, M. (February 1997) "Trends in Animal Research," Scientific American, pp. 86-93). This article reviews the historic debate and events that have shaped the way in which animal research is conducted.

Rudacille, Deborah. The Scalpel and the Butterfly: The War Between Animal Research and Animal Protection. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. This book, available in the Halle Library at EMU, is a balanced review of the debate over the use of animals in research, in a manner that brings key historical figures to life.

Shanks, Niall. Animals and Science: A Guide to the Debates. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2002. Also available in the Halle Library at EMU, this textbook provides a review of issues related to animal research that span the period from the Renaissance to the present, focusing on issues of animal rights, consciousness, and self-awareness.