Organizations committed to developing and disseminating information regarding alternatives to animal research and testing

• Johns Hopkins Centre for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)
• ALTWEB: Global clearing house for alternatives to animal testing
• Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
  
• The New England Anti-Vivisection Society
• British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection
• Safer Medicines Campaign
• Medical Research Modernization Committee
• Citizens for Alternatives to Animal Research and Experimentation (CAARE)
• The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics

Canadian advocacy organizations concerned with animals used in research

• Animal Alliance of Canada
  
• STOP UBC Animal Research
  
• Canadian Coalition Against Animal Research and Experimentation (CCAARE)

Some useful books and articles concerning the ethics and politics of animal research

General Overview

• Normalising the Unthinkable: The Ethics of Using Animals in Research, by the Working Group of Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics

Canadian Regulatory Framework for Animal Experimentation

• “A Regulated Regard: The governance of animal and human experimentation”, Revue québécoise de droit international, by Vaughan Black (2011).
• “Research Tools”, in Animals and the Law, by Lesli Bisgould (2011)
• Tri-Council Policy Statement governing use of human research subjects funded by federal agencies

Ethical Failure of Animal Care Committees

• “Vulnerable Subjects? The case of nonhuman animals in experimentation”, Bioethical Inquiry, by Jane Johnson (2013)
• “Why Animal Ethics Committees Don’t Work”, Between the Species, by Denise Russell (2012)
• “The Canadian Council on Animal Care’s Ethics Code: A Critical Evaluation”, by David Sztybel

Politics and Sociology of Animal Experimentation

• The Sacrifice: How Scientific Experiments Transform Animals and People, by Lynda Birke and Arnold Arluke (2007)
• The Politics of Animal Experimentation, by Dan Lyons (2013)
• Blood Relations: Animals, Humans, and Politics, by Charlotte Montgomery (2000)
• “An Insufferable Business: Ethics, Nonhuman Animals and Biomedical Experiments”, Animals, by Key Peggs (2005)

Utility of Animal Experimentation

• Sacred Cows and Golden Geese, by Ray Greek and Jean Swingle Greek (2002).
• Specious Science: Why Experiments on Animals Harm Humans, by Ray Greek and Jean Swingle Greek (2003)
• The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments, by Andrew Knight (2012)
• “Blame and Shame? How can we reduce unproductive animal experimentation”, by Annie Innis Dagg (in Animal Subjects, ed. by Jodey Castricano 2008).
• “The Immorality of Biomedical Animal Experimentation”, by Mylan Engel
• Medical Research Modernization Committee, “A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation” (2006)
• Pippin, John. 2013. “Animal Research in Medical Sciences: Seeking a Convergence of Science, Medicine, and Animal Law”, South Texas Law Review 54: 469-511.
• Animal Experiments: Critical Assessments and Reviews.
• “Animal Model Research: The Apples and Oranges Quandary”, ATLA, Kenneth J. Shapiro (2004)