Establishment of an open-access canine breed-associated neurologic disease literature library

The Veterinary Neurologic Disease Library has been created as an educational resource library for veterinary professionals related to breed-associated neurologic diseases in dogs.

To develop an open-access library that serves as a curated collection repository of peer-reviewed literature pertaining to dog breeds and neurologic diseases.

Dog breeds were identified using the American and United Kennel Club registered breed lists. Disease terms were collected from published texts discussing veterinary neurologic diseases. Publicly available resources were searched by inputting keywords, including dog breeds, specific neurologic diseases, clinical signs, and additional related terms. Retrieved information was stored in a Zotero web-library, and automated searches continue to be conducted monthly. Original peer-reviewed manuscripts (in English) were categorized for inclusion with an individual unique breed was identified with a neurologic disease.

The library is currently active and accessible online. Four hundred breeds have been included for peer-reviewed citations of neurologic diseases. At the time of this writing, over 1,900 scholarly citations have been identified and categorized.

This centralized, open-access, repository of breed-associated neurologic diseases can be accessed to search breed and neurologic disease to assist primary care clinicians in the identification breed-associated neurologic disease in dogs and locating original source publications.