Web of Science - covers highly used and highly cited scholarly materials in science back to 1908.  Web of Science also indexes the social science and arts and humanities, making it a great tool for finding scholarly materials across multiple diciplines.  

Google Scholar -is Google's searching across scholarly journals and books, and is great for searching across multiple disciplines.

Google Uncle Sam - this is *the* way to search for government information for environmental science topics. 

Academic Search Premier - a catch all databases with articles across all subjects, and includes major newspapers. 

When you want to find articles about topics in your area of interest, use the indexing databases (essentially, a huge, searchable bibliography of citations) for that subject.  Subjects have indexing tools specific to the subject, but don't forget to try out indexes that search across disciplines in order to maximize your ability to find materials.  Lots of things we'll own online, but for the things we do not own online, make sure to place a request for that item through Interlibrary Loan. 

Easily browse for journal articles online through our electronic journals portal, located here.  Search for individual titles in the search box, or browse the journals by category using the drop down menu below the search box.  

Watch this short video here for a demonstration on how to browse the math journals we own online - here.