Animal Study Registry:

animalstudyregistry.org

Your contribution
to better science

animalstudyregistry.org is an online registry for scientific studies involving animals conducted around the world. It is operated by the German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals (Bf3R) at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). The registry was launched as a reaction to the translational and reproducibility crisis and provides scientists a platform to register an exact study plan prior to the start of experiments in order to prevent selective reporting. This allows reviewers or other scientists to compare the initially registered contents with the final publication. Thereby, animalstudyregistry.org encourages transparency, reproducibility, and animal welfare.

You want to learn more about us?

Go to our About site and learn more about preregistration in animal research.

You are looking for a preregistered study?

Browse through our registry and find your study of interest.

You still have some questions?

Check our FAQ or contact us for any further questions.

You want to preregister your study?

To register your study you need to have an account. Login or register as a new user.

Our registration process:

Ensuring Reproducible Research Requires a Support Infrastructure: The Value of Public Registries to Publishers. Olevska et al., Science Editor 2021 Feb 9; 44:4-7. https://doi.org/10.36591/SE-D-4401-4

Latest News

Happy New Year!

2022-12-20

The animalstudyregistry.org team wishes you a Happy New Year! We want to thank all our users that contribute to a change of research culture by preregistering their animal research. We look back to a successful year 2022. We have updated our website and presented preregistration and multiple occasions. We have intensified our collaboration with the center for open science and preclinicaltrials.eu and published together common standards for the preregistration of animal research. We look forward to an exciting year with lots of promising events such as the 12th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences. Do not hesitate to contact us, if you want to get more insights on preregistration and other open science measures in animal research. We are pleased to give a virtual introduction into the topic and to discuss theoretical or practical aspects of preregistration at your institution.

animalstudyregistry.org at the Bundesnetzwerk 3R

2022-11-18

Join us at the next event of the German Bundesnetzwerk 3R on November 30. We will present our preregistration platform animalstudyregistry.org. We are also looking forward to the presentations of other tools that support scientists in planning and conducting their animal study such as SMAFIRA, a searching tool for alternative methods or CIRS-LAS a reporting system for the recording and analysis of unplanned events in animal experimental research. The talks will be held in German. The registration is now open.