The Newsletter - the Forum
In 2004 the Newsletter underwent a major overhaul, was renamed and redesigned. It is produced every quarter and will be sent to automatically to all members.

Contents of recent issues

Volume 3 No 3 (Autumn2006)
LASA response to the Nuffield Report - the Ethics of Research Involving Animals; LASA Winter Meeting update; Transgenic Animals Section Meeting - Transgenics beyond the Mouse; LASA Opportunities; 2005 Statistics; CD-Rom: Human Endpoints in Laboratory Animal Experimentation; Consensus Meeting on Carbon Dioxide Euthanasia of Laboratory Animals; New on Open Access and Repositories; In the Media; Biosciences Federation Policy Appointments; Forthcoming meetings and courses

Volume 3 No 2 (Summer 2006)
contained articles on: Revision of EU Directive 86/609; LASA Winter Meeting Update; Imagebank Photographic Competition 2006; Biosciences Federation Science Communication Award 2006; Draft Strategy - consultation with Members; The People's Petition - Standing Up for Animall Research; Intervet - Dieter Lütticken Award; RSPCA?UFAW Welfare Group Meeting 2006; More about the project Licence Abstracts aide memoire; LASA Alternatives Section Meeting Report; In the Media; Forthcoming meetings and courses

Volume 3 No 1
contained articles on:Action Plan for the European Partnership to Promote Alternatives to Animal Testing; Support for Medical Research; Update on the NC3Rs; In the Media; Pro-Test; Lasa Award; LASA Workshop: Prepsring abstracts of Project Licences; Project Licence Aide Memoire; Future Strategy; LASA/APC Pilot Study; Forthcoming meetings and courses

Volume 2 No 4
contained articles on: President's Report 2005; Editor's Notes; Welcome from the New President; LASA Officers 2006; Overview of Winter Meeting 2005; The Middle-Ground Debate; SECAL-ESLAV International Congress; Visit to a Multi-species Animal Unit REport; RSPCA Refinement Poster; NC3Rs/LASA Small Awards 2005; From the Home Office; Biosciences Federation; Forthcoming meetings and courses; In the Public Eye.

Volume 2 No 3
contained articles on:Update on APC Education and Training sub-committee review of modular training; aspects of Continued Learning; 2005 Humane Education Award for Alternatives in Education; from the Home Office; RSPCA Lay Members' Forum 2005; NC3Rs - first year; forthcoming meetings and courses; Winter Meeting 2005; Use of Behavioural and Hormonal Parameters in Welfare Assessment; in the News.

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The Association Journal
Each ordinary member (and the three persons nominated by each Institutional member) is entitled to receive the Association’s journal, Laboratory Animals. This is also the official journal for some of our sister associations in Europe and of the Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations (FELASA).
The journal year runs from January to December during which time four issues are published.
Laboratory Animals publishes papers dealing with all aspects of the use of animals in biomedical research and the Editorial Board wishes to give especial encouragement to papers describing work which involves a reduction in the number of animals that need to be used or which represents a significant refinement in methodology, leading to improvements in the welfare or well-being of the animals used. Full information to authors wishing to submit a paper to the journal can be found in the back of a copy of Laboratory Animals.