Background Notes

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This project began several years ago with a small collection of articles about alternatives to skin irritation testing in animals. The focus of this work has been development of a vocabulary of terms specific to this area of biomedical research for use as keywords for databases, journal articles and other publications. This website has been created as an extension of this work in order to share the information collected and to provide a resource on the WWW which can be useful to both knowledgeable and novice researchers in this field.

References

Huggins, D. J. and N. Mitchko (1993). Communication by Keyword: Enhanced Distribution and Retrieval of Information About Alternatives to Animal Testing. Poster presentation. World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences. Nov. 14-19, Baltimore, MD.

 Huggins, D. J. (1994). Communication by Keyword: Enhanced Distribution and Retrieval of Information About Alternatives to Animal Testing. In Vitro Toxicol. 7(4): 369-375.

 Huggins, D. J. (1995). Communication by Keyword: Enhanced Storage, Retrieval and Dissemination of Information About In Vitro Technologies. Poster presentation. Congress on In Vitro Biology. May 20-24, Denver, CO.

 Huggins, D. J. (1996). Keyword Clusters as Information Codons: Enhanced Communication About Alternatives to Animal Testing. Poster presentation. 2nd World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences. Oct. 20-24, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Huggins, D. J. (1997). Communication by Keyword: Sharing Information About Alternatives to Animal Testing. AWIC Newsletter 8(2): 9-10.

Huggins, D. J. (1998). Words and Word Patterns: Recognizing Alternatives to Animal Testing. Lab Animal 27(2): 45-46.

Huggins, D. J. (1998). Co-occurring Words: Finding Information About Alternatives to Animal Testing. ATLA 26(6): 849-856.

Huggins, D. J. (1999). Co-occurring Words and Retrieval Efficiency: Finding Information About Alternatives to Animal Testing. Poster presentation. 3^rd World Congress on Alternatives to Animal Testing. Bologna, Italy. August – Sept. 1999.