All right, research time. Below, I'll be posting links to articles I find on the subject of animal testing, both scholarly and non-scholarly, accompanied by a short description, my feelings about the material, and how I may incorporate the article in my paper. By the time I'm done researching, I hope to have dug around enough to come up with a more specific topic.

• As before, Wikipedia is a starting point. The lead section on the "Animal testing" article neatly summarizes everything that comes after it and covers a lot of different points related to animal testing, including a few I hadn't considered. The article details some arguments for and against animal testing, but from an objective, neutral viewpoint. The article discusses the different applications of animal testing, the sources of animals used for testing, the euthanasia of lab animals, different ethical viewpoints, and general statistics. Although I may use some of the references the Wikipedia article provides, I will also be using Wikipedia in the early stages of my planning to get starting ideas of the different points to cover.
• Like Wikipedia, ProCon.org is another great place to get ideas about debatable topics. It also includes dozens of reliable sources, some of them scholarly, which I might make use of in my research paper. ProCon.org is a reputable non-profit organization that discusses common debates in today's society, and lists summaries of different arguments in a pro-con format. Its entry for "Animal Testing" includes 13–14 arguments on each side. Some of them are obvious and well-known (e.g., "Animal testing is cruel"), but others bring up things I never would have thought up myself (e.g., "Most experiments involving animals are flawed, wasting the lives of the animal subjects").
• When these two websites are insufficient, Google Scholar and the UB Libraries' Catalog will be my friends. I think I have a good understanding of the catalog from the in-class tutorial and from the Library Skills Workbook, and I've used Google Scholar on research papers before, and it's always worked.

At the moment, I'll assume I'll be doing a general research paper about animal testing. If, during my research, I feel like my topic could be narrower, I will make it so, but I think I'm good for now.