http://oslovet.veths.no/NORINA
This site is one of the services provided by:
The Norwegian Reference Centre for
Laboratory Animal Science & Alternatives
The NORINA Database
Audiovisual alternatives to the use of animals in teaching
Current Web version of NORINA last updated: December 8th 2004
Number of records in current version of NORINA: 3815
The information in NORINA has been collected from: 1991 - present day
NORINA is available on two Internet sites, one here in Oslo and the other in Sydney, Australia.
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If you are looking for information on:
* Alternatives loans programs
* Products that are available free of charge
* Products that have a free demo version
Please contact the compiler of the NORINA database: karina.smith@veths.no
If you are looking for information on textbooks as alternatives to animal use:
Search our other database: TextBase
Would you like to download a flyer about these databases in pdf format? Feel free to use it wherever you wish:
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[You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open this file.]
If you are looking for alternatives in other areas of animal use,
please click here
This service operates on a server provided with generous support from our Major Sponsor
Laboratory Animals, the International Journal of Laboratory Science and Welfare
Additional Sponsors:
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA)
(Major Sponsor)
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Other sites that may be of assistance
- NORINA collaborates with the European Resource Centre for Alternatives in Higher Education (EURCA). EURCA's main roles
are to actively promote the use of alternatives to using animals in higher education (HE) and to provide a mechanism for effective dissemination of information about these alternatives. EURCA maintains a database of alternative resources (with information on associated support materials, reviews, evaluation and users comments in addition to product information) and is actively
seeking objective evaluations by experts from the field. EURCA will attend
major scientific meetings to demonstrate alternatives and provide advice to teachers on how these might be used effectively.
There is also a Resource Centre in Utrecht, the Netherlands, where products
can be tried. There are flags in both the NORINA and EURCA databases on
those alternatives for which both hold records.
- InterNICHE - the International Network for Humane Education. InterNICHE aims for a high quality, fully humane education in biological science, veterinary and human medicine. It supports progressive science teaching and the replacement of animal experiments by working with teachers to introduce alternatives, and with students to support freedom of conscience.
- LearningWithoutKilling, a website with information on resources for humane education.
- Net Vet and The Electronic Zoo, comprehensive collections of Veterinary and Animal Resources on the Web. NORINA has been selected as Pick of the Litter by this site.
- Laboratory Animals, the International Journal of Laboratory Science and Welfare.
- ANZCCART (Australian and New Zealand Council for the Care of Animals in Research and Teaching Limited).
- "The Use of Animals in Higher Education" by Dr. Jonathan Balcombe, and other material from the Humane Society of the United States.
- The Role of Computational Models in Animal Research
NORINA (A Norwegian Inventory of Alternatives)
The Laboratory Animal Unit, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Oslo, has compiled an English-language database of audiovisuals and other alternatives for use in the biological sciences. The primary purpose of the database is to offer an overview of possible alternatives or supplements to the use of animals in student teaching, at all levels from schools to university. The database consists of approximately 3500 entries, (December 2000) including computer programs, CD-ROMs, interactive videos, films and more traditional teaching aids such as slide series, 3-D models and classroom charts. All records have been classified into one or more of over 30 Categories and one or more of a similar number of Types of Record, to aid searching the database. There is also a section for Contact Persons who are developing and/or using audiovisuals at their institution, and for suppliers of audiovisuals. Users, developers and suppliers of audiovisuals are invited to send in details for future upgrades of the database.
We have a separate TextBase for textbooks addressing laboratory animal science. This database includes many reference works that may be of value when planning alternatives to, for example, dissection classes.
Who is behind NORINA?
The NORINA database is compiled by
Karina Smith at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Oslo. The idea of collecting information on alternatives to laboratory animals was first conceived by Richard Fosse at the Haukeland Hospital, Bergen, Norway. His prototype database which contained about 40 entries was expanded to NORINA as you'll meet it today, with nearly 4000 entries.
Web Version Acknowledgements:
The Web version of NORINA has been developed by Rees Griffiths, Information Systems
Manager at the School of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Without his enthusiastic support of the project and his hard work, this site would not have existed. We are very grateful for his efforts.
The Web version, including the Australian mirror site, were made possible with the financial assistance of ANZCCART (Australian and New
Zealand Council for the Care of Animals in Research and Teaching).
NORINA Acknowledgments
Richard Fosse sparked off our interest in alternatives and paved the way for the production of a database by introducing us to Macintosh computers and the Filemaker Pro database program in particular. We are very grateful for his support.
Veterinarian Ken Boschert, University of St. Louis, Missouri, USA, is widely known for his definitive
collections of electronic information on all aspects of animals and veterinary medicine. He is moderator of the CompMed mailing list and host of NetVet and The Electronic Zoo. Ken kindly produced the initial home pages for NORINA on his own server. Ken selected the NORINA database as "Pick of the Litter" in 1996. We strongly recommend that you visit his site and spend plenty of time browsing the considerable amount of information to be found there.
Our sysops at the Veterinary School, Magne Okkenhaug, Mona Syversen and Gjermund Holden have hooked us up to the Internet and guided us safely and cheerfully through innumerable problems. They have constructed a separate website for the Veterinary School here in Oslo.
Further details from:
Karina Smith, Laboratory Animal Unit, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, P.O. Box 8146 Dep., N-0033 Oslo, Norway. Fax: +47 22 96 45 35. Phone: +47 22 96 45 74. email (Internet): karina.smith@veths.no
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