Online Resources

African spotted-necked otter enrichment at the San Diego Zoo.
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General Animal Welfare

Animal Welfare Institute (AWIS)
Animal Welfare Institute. Legislative information, regulatory information, and programs for companion, laboratory, farm, wild, and zoo animals.
OIE Documents Database : Animal Welfare
The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). Open access to OIE animal welfare reports and articles.

Zoo Animal Welfare & Enrichment

AZA : Elements of a Good Enrichment Program
Association of Zoos & Aquariums. Accreditation standards and characteristics of a good enrichment program. Member-only access - requires login.
Center for Animal Welfare
Chicago Zoological Society. Research, tools, programs, species-specific information, and animal welfare bibliography.
Center for Zoo Animal Welfare (CZAW)
Detroit Zoological Society. Media, resources, symposium.
Disney's Animal Enrichment Program
Disney's Animal Program. Species-specific information, methods, course.
Enrichment for Nonhuman Primates (2005) [PDF]
National Institutes of Health (NIH). A six-booklet series on providing appropriate enrichment for baboons, capuchins, chimpanzees, macaques, marmosets and tamarins, and squirrel monkeys.
The Perspective of Animal Welfare in Shaping Zoos in the Future [video]
TEDx talk by Ron Kagan, Director, Detroit Zoological Society, at the Future of Zoos Symposium, February 2012.

A Good Place to Start

SDZWA Insider

First place to visit?

SDZWA's intranet portal, Insider Online.

This is the animal welfare information hub for SDZWA team members. Click the links and sign in for access:

SDZWA Research Guides

Animals
Guide to finding animal information online and at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Library
Animal Welfare
Guide to finding animal welfare, training, and enrichment information, online and at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Library.
Conservation
Guide to finding conservation information, online and at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Library
Plants
Guide to finding plant, plant conservation, and botanical garden information, online and at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Library
Veterinary Medicine
Guide to finding veterinary and biomedical information, online and at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Library
Zoos & Aquariums
Guide to zoo & aquarium information, online and at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance; natural history museum links

SDZWA Library Links

Library Home
Home page, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Library
Catalog
SDZWA Library's online public-access catalog - SDZWA team members may request books for delivery via interoffice mail
Journals A-Z
Journals available to team members through the SDZWA Library - search contents, view library holdings, access full text
Databases
Article databases available through the SDZWA Library; journal information
Fact Sheets
Portal to the SDZWA Library's detailed, fully referenced animal fact sheets
Priority Species Information
Custom literature searches and fact sheets for current priority species — for SDZWA team members, onsite access only
SDZWA Research Publications
Peer reviewed and scientific works by San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance staff.
Research Guides
Portal to the SDZWA Library's research guides: Animals, Animal Welfare, Conservation, Plants, Reference, Veterinary Medicine, Zoos & Aquariums
Contact Us
Email the SDZWA Library at library@sdzwa.org.

Animal Welfare : A Research Guide: Online Resources