Five journals with free (or recently extended) online trial periods were recently announced; online content includes full text, figures, and tables. Published by the Phycological Society of America, the Journal of Phycology is freely available until May 15, 2001; online, full-text content begins with the December 2000 issue "and will expand with each month's new issues"; abstracts are online since 1985. The journal is published in conjunction with Stanford University's HighWire Press.