All entries are peer-reviewed and selected for scientific accuracy, instructional value, and quality. Each visual entry is accompanied by a legend that describes the still image, video clip, or animation and indicates where and how it was acquired. Each curriculum entry is accompanied by an introduction and link to the authors. All submissions include the key conceptual knowledge demonstrated or illustrated and the keywords and microbial concepts for organizing and cataloguing the entry. One can use the MicrobeLibrary to enhance classroom and laboratory instruction, to develop curriculum, or to embellish reports or presentations.
Students can use the library as a resource for research projects and reports.
To download materials from the library requires access to the Internet and a computer of appropriate capacity with suitable software. No, materials from the MicrobeLibrary are available free of charge to anyone for the purposes of teaching and learning in the biological sciences. Yes, ASM subscribes to the Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976. The following four factors should be considered prior to downloading and copying materials from the MicrobeLibrary. Educators should be most concerned about factors 1 and 3.