Aims and scope

ALTEX – Alternatives to Animal Experimentation publishes open access academic articles on the development and implementation of alternatives to the use of animals for scientific purposes and informs on international developments in this field.
The use of animals for scientific purposes includes all experimental procedures involving the use of animals in testing, research, and education or to obtain tissues, organs, and other animal-derived products that may cause pain, suffering, distress, or lasting harm to animals. ALTEX is committed to ensuring that all research published gives full consideration to animal welfare and ethical issues.
ALTEX publishes research articles, concept articles, opinion articles, reviews, consensus reports, workshop reports, short communications, letters, comments, corners, and meeting reports. Current news and events are posted online. ALTEX collaborates with the OECD in the review of adverse outcome pathways submitted to the AOP-Wiki and publishes manuscripts generated within this process as AOP Reports. An AOP Report is a full article that provides an overview of an AOP description, which conforms with AOP development principles described in the Developers' Handbook and has been entered into the AOP-Wiki (https://aopwiki.org/), and describes its 3R relevance and potential application. 
All content is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is appropriately cited (CC-BY). Copyright on any article, short communication, meeting report or letter published in ALTEX is retained by the author(s). Unedited versions of main articles and short communications are published with open access upon their acceptance as "accepted manuscripts" with a CC-BY license. Journal content is archived in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP-PN).