Finally finished my short HOWTO on searching academic literature in the Internet. The text is based mostly on my own experience: my main work at the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences is to analyse the new publications on Soviet history, including foreign ones, and it would be really difficult to do this work without Internet as only a small part of Western research papers and monographs is available at Russian libraries.
Download the full text (PDF, 9.5 Mb, in Russian).