While Google Scholar is the main source for articles and proceedings papers, another academic search engine you may want to check out is Scirus. PubMed is also a very well known search portal that (as the name already tells us) specializes in biomedical texts and life sciences. As such, probably not very useful to most of you right now; but who knows, there may well be students that will be taking an interest in work that has relations to these fields at some future point, so I have added it here also, just in case. Mendeley, a site that I already recommended whilst talking about reference management systems, can also be used to search for papers. And another good resource is Academia, a portal to which researchers upload their papers. A popular site where you can find many texts is Scribd, which is not only for academic work - so you can find anything from cooking recipes to magazines to government reports in there; but many scholars upload their writings onto Sribd as well, therefore definitely worth bookmarking. 

Mendeley will usually show you the correct citation data, however with Academia this may be missing (and with Scribd this is almost certainly going to be the case), in which case you need to copy paste the name of the paper into Google Scholar and get the reference from there; from the link at the bottom of the entry that says "Cite," as I am showing you in the image below:

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