What about Google? Google Scholar indexes many articles in scholarly journals across many disciplines. But it also misses a lot. And while the search interface is simple, there's not much you can do with it other than enter some words and then browse voluminous results. It's fine if you just want to find a couple relevant articles and you're not too picky. But you can not rely on Google Scholar for comprehensive searching.
The Libraries do support Google Scholar as a search tool. But we advise that it's not yet a valid substitute for reliable, authoritative databases such as Chemical Abstracts. Scientists still have to learn the "real" tools eventually.
