Investigator toolkit
Major regulatory drivers
- United States Department of Agriculture Animal Welfare Regulations (PDF)
- Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
- Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (PDF)
- Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare
- International AAALAC standards
- The Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (The Guide), 8th Ed.
- The Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (The Guide), 8th Ed. (PDF)
- The Guide for the Care and Use of Agricultural Animals in Research and Teaching (Ag Guide), 4th Ed. (PDF)
- American Veterinary Medical Association guidelines on euthanasia
- University Administrative Manual | 6,512: Policy on the Use of Animals in Teaching, Research, Extension, and Testing
- IACUC policies – please email iacuc@unr.edu to obtain access
Guides, resources and standard operating procedures
- CITI training for animal researchers
- Occupational Health Surveillance System
- eProtocol tutorial: Creating and submitting a protocol in the eProtocol software
- Tutorial on the Public Health Service policy on humane care and use of laboratory animals
- Field study information for the development of appropriate protocols
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Animal Care and Use
- American Society of Mammologists Guidance for the Use of Wild Animals (PDF)
- Guidelines for the Use of Fishes in Research (PDF)
- Guidelines for the Use of Wild Birds in Research (PDF)
- Guidelines for Use of Live Amphibians and Reptiles in Field and Laboratory Research (PDF)
- Updated Guidelines for protection of mammologists and wildlife researchers from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (PDF)
- National Centre of the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) resource library
- NIH animal care and use training resources
- Services available through the University’s Animal Resources