NCA Symposium Literature Search Strategies ZEBET Database AnimAltZEBET Barbara Grune Center for Docu

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NCA 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)

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ZEBET 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

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ZEBET 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.

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ZEBET 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.

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ZEBET 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

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ZEBET 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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AnimAlt-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.

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AnimAlt-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

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AnimAlt-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. [phone]
  Fax [phone]
  grune.zebet_at_bgvv.de