Norecopa has had a long-standing collaboration with the Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC) which is part of the Agriculture Research Service (ARS) at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). AWIC has access to the bibliographic database of the National Agricultural Library (NAL).

As part of its efforts to advance the 3Rs, AWIC has flagged records in the database which highlight the 3Rs. In an initial project, AWIC has submitted 1601 flagged records to Norecopa, which have been incorporated into the Norecopa database, so that they can be searched by the search engine. They may be accessed by using the NAL filter under the "Database" section on Norecopa's search page.