The American Society for Microbiology has placed online the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology, covering "significant current research in the areas of biotechnology, microbial ecology, food microbiology, and industrial microbiology." Abstracts are online beginning with the January 1992 issue, and users can access full-text content, including all figures and tables, beginning with the...

Five journals with free (or recently extended) online trial periods were recently announced; online content includes full text, figures, and tables. The Society for General Microbiology offers free full access to the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology "until full text has been available for a few months"; PDF files are available since January 1997; abstracts are...

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has placed online the journal Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. Full-text content begins with March 1998; abstracts and tables of contents are available online back to 1992. MMBR is a "definitive, broad-based review journal in the expanding disciplines of microbiology, immunology, and molecular and cellular biology." All online content is...

The Scientist magazine is written for life science professionals, but promises it to be "concise, accurate, accessible, and entertaining." The magazine's online version has a great Multimedia section on its website that has "Videos," "Slideshows," and "Infographics." Visitors shouldn't miss the story titled "Bat Hunt" from the January 2012 issue, which profiles a mammologist working in the South...