New sources for alternative methods on the internet: The objectives of databases and web sites

Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volumn 32, Issue SUPPL. 1B, 2004, Pages 573-582

  Grune, Barbara ^a   Dörendahl, Antje ^a   Köhler Hahn, Dorothea ^a   Feuerstein, Céline ^a   Box, Rainer ^a   Wohlgemuth, Heinz ^a   Spielmann, Horst ^a  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal testing alternatives; Animal use alternatives; Databases; Indexing; Internet; Literature search; Scientific information retrieval; Searching strategies; Web sites

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TESTING ALTERNATIVE; ANIMAL WELFARE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; EUROPE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; LAW; NONHUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STANDARD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 3042521492     PISSN: 02611929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026119290403201s94     Document Type: Conference Paper

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