The article literature is central to Linguistics. The article databases listed here allow you to search the contents of thousands of journals simultaneously. If you had to choose only one to know well, it would be LLBA, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts. (Please remember that you must log in with your NetID and password in order to access these and many other databases.)
When using article databases, remember there are always three stages in your workflow (the "three Ds"):
The following tools allow you to search for and use articles from within the scholarly literature in Linguistics and related fields. Some of these indexes exist in an electronic format, while others exist only in print format.