Title: NCA Symposium Literature Search Strategies ZEBET Database AnimAltZEBET Barbara Grune Center for Docu
1NCA Symposium Literature Search Strategies?
ZEBET Database AnimAlt-ZEBET Barbara Grune
Center for Documentation and Evaluation of
Alternative Methods to Animal experiments
(ZEBET) Federal Institute for Health
Protection of Consumers and Veterinary
Medicine (BgVV)
2ZEBET DatabaseAnimAlt-ZEBET - Objective
- Documentation of scientifically evaluated
alternative methods - ZEBET support for scientists and
representatives of local, state and federal
authorities to fulfill national and international
regulations - EEC Directive 86/609 and
German Animal Protection Law
?Verification of necessity of animal
? Use of alternative methods
3ZEBET DatabaseAnimAlt-ZEBET - Subject
- Documents on alternatives to testing animals
in English
carefully evaluated by
ZEBETs staff according to the 3Rs
concept established by Russel and Burch. - Information on the current stage of development
and validation of a method and on the acceptance
for either scientific or regulatory purposes.
- Each document consists of datafields e.g. title
of a method, keywords, evaluation, summary and
bibliographic references.
4ZEBET DatabaseAnimAlt-ZEBET - Subject
- Subject Coverage
main emphasis - pharmacological
and toxicological methods
in addition, methods from
other fields e.g. immunology,
bacteriology, virology, food
hygiene, neurology, cancer research - Data Inventory
May 2002 in total 76 documents
ZEBET is responsible for
updating and for providing new documents.
5ZEBET DatabaseAnimAlt-ZEBET - Searching
- free of charge on the Internet via DIMDI,
German Institute of Medical
Documentation and Information - Graphical User Interface
- Search in the ZEBET Database or simultaneously in
multiple databases, e.g. searching in MEDLINE
plus ZEBET
6ZEBET DatabaseAnimAlt-ZEBET - Searching
- Search Mode
Basic Mode - simple
searches Advanced Mode -
multistage searching Expert Mode
- knowledge of commandlanguages - http//www.bgvv.de
Instruction for searching in
the AnimAlt-ZEBET -
- Sample Search
Search alternative methods in
the field of embryotoxicity!
See next pages!
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18AnimAlt-ZEBET - Activity Report 2001
- 14.205 Accesses / Jan. - Dec. 2001
Access without DIMDI-online connection
contract and
9.064
Accesses / Jan. - Dec. 2001
Access with DIMDI-online connection contract
ZEBET Database access is possible with new or
existing DIMDI-online contracts or without.
19AnimAlt-ZEBET - Research Prize 2001
- Research Prize 2001
from Ärzte gegen Tierversuche,
Germany Award acknowledges the setting up
of a database for alternatives to animal
experiments
20AnimAlt-ZEBET
- Dr. Barbara Grune
Center for Documentation and
Evaluation of Alternative Methods to Animal
experiments (ZEBET)
Federal Institute
for Health Protection of Consumers and Veterinary
Medicine (BgVV) Diedersdorfer Weg 1
12277 Berlin
Tel. 01888 412 2271
Fax 01888 412 2958
grune.zebet_at_bgvv.de